WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by project type | Page 54

Standard Project Report 2016 Annual Project Food Distribution Commodity Planned Distribution (mt) Chickpeas Actual Distribution (mt) % Actual v. Planned 117 80 68.5% 1,603 1,104 68.9% Split Peas 117 80 68.5% Vegetable Oil 117 81 69.2% 1,953 1,344 68.8% Rice Total Operational Partnerships The WFP programme in Bhutan fell under the overall oversight of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the planning body of the Government, w hich coordinated the bilateral and multilateral assistance to Bhutan. On the operational side, WFP's major partners were the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, and the Food Corporation of Bhutan Limited. The WFP component of the school feeding programme is fully integrated into the One Programme of the United Nations (UN) system in Bhutan, a Delivering as One country. The Ministry of Education was the main counterpart of WFP and the lead agency responsible for the national school feeding programme. The ministry lived up to its obligation of gradually assuming responsibility of students from schools or grades no longer supported by WFP in accordance with the hand-over strategy, aimed for completion in 2018. The Ministry of Forests and Agriculture was WFP's partner for the school agriculture programme, a collaboration with the Ministry of Education that received support from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand thanks to coordination with WFP. The objective of the school agriculture programme was to educate school children on agricultural and farming practices through practical demonstrations, the products of which Bhutan, Kingdom of (BT) 14 Development Project - 200300