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Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (2014-2018); the Five Year Strategic Plan for Gender Equality and Women's
Empowerment (2014-2018); the Social Protection Policy Framework (2016-2025 draft). The latter recognises school
meals, scholarships, and conditional cash transfers in support of improved nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life as
important means through which to provide social assistance to vulnerable groups. The Roadmap towards National
School Feeding by 2021, signed by WFP and the Ministry of Education in mid-2015, also represents national
commitment towards enhanced human capital and social sector development.
The Cambodian United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2016-2018 brings the United
Nations into alignment with government priorities and policy. The UNDAF recommended that the United Nations
support to Cambodia be adjusted to : reflect the changes taking place as the country transitions towards reaching
lower middle-income country status; equitable growth and social development; support decentralisation and local
governance as a means to strengthen pro-poor sustainable and inclusive growth and development; technical
assistance to policy development and coherent approaches to programming in support of national ownership.
The local launch of the Zero Hunger Challenge in mid-2015 saw the Government reaffirm its commitment to
eradicating hunger. Food security and nutrition indicators proposed for inclusion in the Cambodia SDGs (CSDGs)
are related to undernourishment, food insecurity experience, dietary diversity, and chronic, acute and micronutrient
malnutrition, specifically among women and children. The CSDGs will be endorsed in 2017 and formally integrated
within the new NSDP from 2019.
The NSDP is implemented in coordination between government, development partners and civil society
organisations. Technical working groups (TWG) function as the platforms through which strategic priorities are
agreed and moved forward in a complementary and transparent manner. Joint monitoring indicators, endorsed by
the Prime Minister, are developed by TWGs to confirm joint priorities and targets. SDG2 is primarily managed by the
TWG on Social Protection, Food Security and Nutrition, the Nutrition Working Group, the Subgroup on Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene and Nutrition, the TWG on Health, and the TWG on Agriculture; the Scaling Up Nutrition
(SUN) movement and the Zero Hunger Challenge offer complementary platforms for advocacy and strategic
planning.
Summary of WFP Operational Objectives
In line with the Government priorities and the UNDAF (2016-2018), WFP is working to improve the food and
nutrition security of the most vulnerable households and communities in ways that build long-term social capital
while strengthening government capacities to promote the development of sustainable national food security
systems.
The current programme covers food and cash-based safety nets and technical assistance in support of education,
nutrition and livelihood resilience. Food assistance is also provided in response to emergencies, when required.
WFP in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport works to increase access to inclusive and
equitable, quality education in Cambodia especially for children from poor and vulnerable families. School meals
and scholarships (cash or food entitlements granted as conditional transfers to children with at least 80 percent
attendance) support universal access to primary education and promote increased attendance and retention. To
promote diversified diets and educate future generations of Cambodians about nutrition, WFP expands school
gardens and ‘home-grown' programme models in which local farmers and suppliers sell their produce to nearby
schools.
To facilitate the implementation of the Roadmap towards National School Feeding by 2021, WFP and the Ministry
are exploring viable institutional mechanisms to facilitate national programme ownership, including a suitable policy
framework, predictable and reliable funding and budgeting, quality programme design, and institutional
arrangements and coordination.
In support of the Government's efforts to ensure that strategies and implementation mechanisms are in place for
effective, coordinated and harmonised action towards ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030, WFP works to
contribute to sustainable models to improve nutrition outcomes, especially within the first 1,000 days of life, to
strengthen nutrition research, and to inform nutrition-related policy. In particular, WFP supports the national Scaling
Up Nutrition (SUN) network to ensure that national action for nutrition is based on effective knowledge management
and stakeholder engagement.
WFP's productive assets and livelihoods support programme, implemented in collaboration with partner
non-governmental organizations and sub-national authorities, has the dual objective of providing employment
opportunities to poor, food-insecure households, and alleviating their short-term hunger gap during the yearly lean
season, while creating or rehabilitating community and household assets. These assets also contribute to disaster
risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
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