Standard Project Report 2016
Operational Partnerships
In accordance with a Letter of Agreement between the International Organization for Migration( IOM) and WFP, IOM continued to identify and register the most vulnerable undocumented returnees and distribute WFP emergency food assistance. In order to scale up the operation immediately, WFP established partnerships with 14 national and international non-governmental organizations( NGOs) which enabled WFP to reach vulnerable communities across the country to respond to the food security and nutrition needs of children, women and men in a timely manner.
In the initial stage of the EMOP, WFP partnered with a national NGO, Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs( CHA), to support SCOPE registrations in the field. CHA staff were trained in the use of SCOPE by WFP experts. This training was supplemented through central support from dedicated staff in the Kabul country office.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations was responsible for coordinating the humanitarian response to this emergency. They coordinated with local authorities, government ministries, United Nations agencies, NGOs, community-based organizations and civil society. WFP worked closely with the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations and other United Nations agencies including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees( UNHCR), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs( OCHA), and IOM to assist internally displaced persons( IDPs), returnees, and refugees. WFP signed an agreement with the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations with the aim to enhance existing collaboration and coordination, including the use of SCOPE for the registration of returnees and IDPs. Both WFP and the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations also agreed to facilitate coordination of data and information for IDPs, returnees and refugees receiving WFP assistance. Documented and undocumented returnees, who had already been registered by UNHCR and IOM respectively, were to be imported into the SCOPE system on a rolling basis. To this end, a beneficiary data sharing and protection agreement was planned to be signed by WFP, IOM and UNHCR.
Through a United Nations refugees and returnees working group, led by UNHCR and IOM, WFP ensured that it was working in support of other United Nations and NGO operations, especially in the eastern region. The working group also provided an opportunity to avoid gaps and overlaps.
To ensure that the humanitarian and development nexus was kept coherent and that any recovery work was aligned with Afghanistan ' s wider development plan, WFP engaged both humanitarian and development partners, notably the donor community, e. g., the European Commission ' s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations( DG ECHO) and the European Commission ' s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development( DG DEVCO), in discussion on humanitarian and development funding pots.
The treatment of moderate acute malnutrition( MAM) programme for children aged 6 – 59 months and PLW was implemented by the Ministry of Public Health and Basic Package of Health Services( BPHS) Partners under the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition( IMAM) approach, in collaboration with the nutrition cluster led by the United Nations Children ' s Fund( UNICEF). The National Guideline for IMAM was developed as a tool to assist health workers in the assessment and appropriate management of services and / or counselling for the treatment of both MAM and severe acute malnutrition( SAM). The BPHS package was adapted for the needs of the Afghan population and was designed to tackle the priority areas of maternal and newborn health, child health, public nutrition, and communicable diseases. The package had a semi-hierarchical structure with a health post at the bottom, followed by a health sub-centre, a basic health centre, a comprehensive health centre, and then the district hospital at the top, each designed to cover a specific section of population. The partnership was formalised through a field-level agreement signed between WFP and the three BPHS cooperating partners. The programme was implemented in three provinces, Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman.
Performance Monitoring
The operational context of Afghanistan is heavily linked to issues around access. Taking into account the prevailing operational( security) context, and the complex nature of the mass returns from Pakistan, with further displacements / movements expected before they settle in a new location, WFP piloted mobile vulnerability analysis and mapping( mVAM), for monitoring populations on the move. Monitoring was conducted through a call centre, with the possibility to be incorporated into the WFP beneficiary feedback hotline.
All the operators in the mVAM call centres were women; women operators were more easily able to speak to both male and female respondents, enabling WFP to reach women beneficiaries without having to speak to them face-to-face. Efforts were made to collect mobile numbers of female household members, and the operators requested permission from male respondents to speak to a woman in the household. The mVAM application was also used to collect household food security information from female household members.
Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of( AF) 18 Single Country EMOP- 201024