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Standard Project Report 2016
In line with corporate policies, WFP ensured that beneficiaries could provide feedback and share concerns on
CR-EMOP activities. WFP ensured that community facilitators were present in each Village Development
Committee and that beneficiaries could contact them if they experienced any issues. Beneficiaries could also
contact WFP district sub-offices or call the toll-free telephone hotline "Namaste WFP" (“Hello, WFP”).
WFP partners' technical staff monitored the quality of the created assets, while partner staff with skills in livelihoods
and social mobilisation ensured that communities were made aware of the benefits of the programme. Due to the
short, one-month period of implementation in 2016, WFP did not undertake any outcome monitoring.
Results/Outcomes
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Strategic Objective
: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies (Strategic Objective 1)
Outcomes
: 1.1 Stabilized or reduced undernutrition among children aged 6–59 months and pregnant and lactating
women
Activity:
Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition of target groups
Although the moderate acute malnutrition treatment programme was planned to be implemented in the third phase
of the CR-EMOP, WFP could not implement this programme, even in the last month of January 2016, as the
training of health staff at the district level had not been completed, and the health posts were therefore not prepared
for the implementation. No nutrition related behaviour change and communication activities were implemented in
January 2016. As a result, the programme coverage and participation indicators and the default, mortality, recovery
and non-response rates were not measured.
Although moderate acute malnutrition was not measured in January 2016, the CR-EMOP's outcome monitoring in
December 2015 showed that there was a noticeable improvement in the food consumption of beneficiary
households, with the proportion of households with poor consumption significantly dropping from 19 percent in May
to four percent in December 2015. Furthermore, food security assessments conducted in May and November 2015
showed an improvement in the diversity of household diets in the affected districts and a reduction in the proportion
of households with low dietary diversity. These results were attributed to the overall humanitarian assistance
provided in the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes and the opening of essential roads, which reconnected
people to markets.
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Strategic Objective
: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies (Strategic Objective 1)
Outcome
: 1.2 Stabilized or improved food consumption over assistance period for targeted households and/or
individuals; 1.3 Restored or stabilized access to basic services and/or community assets
Activity:
Food assistance for assets
Through the CR-EMOP, WFP supported over one million people in 11 districts with food assistance or cash
transfers and rehabilitated damaged community assets over a period of nine months after major earthquakes struck
Nepal in April and May 2015.
Although the fuel shortages continued to affect transportation during the end of 2015, WFP and partners managed
to deliver food commodities to the districts and further to the distribution points so that remaining project activities
could be continued in January 2016. WFP helped to rehabilitate community assets including damaged agricultural
land, feeder roads, mountain trails and bridges during the one month period of the project's operation in 2016.
A higher quantity of food was distributed than was planned for January 2016—some food rations were delayed in
2015 due to the fuel shortage and were carried over for distribution in January 2016. Similarly, a higher number of
project participants and beneficiaries received food and cash entitlements than was planned for January 2016. This
was because the pending food assistance for assets activities of 2015 were carried over to January 2016, and these
extra food assistance for assets activities increased the number of actual participants and beneficiaries above the
planned figures for January. The carry over from 2015 also explains why the planned numbers of cash-based
transfers in Nuwakot and Sindupalchowk districts were also exceeded.
By the end of January 2016, WFP disbursed all pending cash transfers for Sindhupalchowk district after the
remaining workdays had been completed, along with the full cash entitlements for work completed in January 2016.
The beneficiaries in Nuwakot district also received all their pending cash transfers by the end of January. Due to
these carry-overs, the total cash distributed in January 2016 was significantly higher than the planned amount for
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