Standard Project Report 2016
In Cox ' s Bazar , the Government maintains the two formal refugee camps for up to 34,000 registered Rohingya refugees . All issues there , including assistance provided by WFP , are coordinated with the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner .
School feeding , as a potentially multi-benefit intervention for education , nutrition and social change , has been a critical entryway for WFP ' s strategic cooperation with the Government . The country has one of the largest primary education systems in the world – nearly 80,000 primary-level educational institutions – and aims to reach universal primary education , aided by its removal of school fees and the granting of monthly stipends . In 2011 , the Directorate of Primary Education , under the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education , launched the National School Feeding Programme in Poverty Prone Areas providing support to girls and boys in pre- and primary schools in the poorest and most food-insecure areas . WFP has been providing technical support to the Government as it scales up school feeding , including advising on sustainable funding options . Bangladesh continues to engage in South-South cooperation to build learning ; a government delegation visited Brazil ' s successful school feeding programme at WFP ' s Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brasilia in 2012 .
To underpin further support to the Government ' s development agenda in addition to school feeding , WFP supports the strengthening of government safety net programmes that focus on disaster risk preparedness and food security . This involves improving the contents and delivery of the Government ' s main safety nets and expanding their reach . These programmes include efforts to mainstream nutrition ( especially through behaviour change activities , rice fortification and better targeting ).
In Bangladesh , the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team ( HCTT ) is the main pillar of the country ' s humanitarian system . The HCTT is composed of nine humanitarian clusters ( Food Security ; Nutrition ; Water , Sanitation and Hygiene ( WASH ); Health ; Education ; Shelter ; Early Recovery ; Child Protection ; and Logistics ) which are technical and sectoral working groups comprised of a United Nations lead agency , national counterparts and cluster members . WFP is co-lead , with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), of the Food Security Cluster and lead of the Logistics Cluster . The HCTT acts as a coordination platform to strengthen the collective capacity of the Government , national and international actors to respond to emergencies . Under the Food Security Cluster specifically , active district focal points contribute in both humanitarian and development focused coordination . WFP actively participates in the Nutrition Cluster and has taken the lead in the process for formulating emergency infant and young child feeding guidelines . In Cox ' s Bazar , WFP served as the main nutrition coordinator under the Cluster in 2016 .
Summary of WFP Operational Objectives
WFP is working in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and other actors to reduce poverty , enhance food security and nutrition , and minimise vulnerability to recurrent shocks through a country programme ( CP ) and a protracted relief and recovery operation ( PRRO ), both of which contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 .
Through its CP , WFP aims to improve the long-term food security and nutrition situation of vulnerable households in the poorest and most food-insecure rural areas and urban slums , with assistance to 3.6 million people over five years ( 2012-2016 ) in 15 prioritised districts . Its objectives are to reduce undernutrition among women and children aged 6-59 months ; increase children ' s access to pre-primary and primary education ; enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities and households to natural disasters and the effects of climate change ; and enhance nationally owned safety-net programmes addressing hunger and household food insecurity . It falls in line with WFP ' s Strategic Objective 3 ( reduce risk and enable people , communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs ) and Strategic Objective 4 ( reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger ).
The PRRO seeks to improve the food security and nutrition of 34,000 refugees residing in two official camps in Cox ' s Bazar through unconditional food assistance , nutrition interventions and school feeding . Its specific objectives are consistent with WFP ' s Strategic Objective 1 ( save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies ) and Strategic Objective 4 .
In Bangladesh , WFP engages in reviews that guide future interventions . In 2016 , this most notably included the independent Strategic Review of Food Security and Nutrition and the Joint Assessment Mission ( JAM ) in Cox ' s Bazar . JAMs are jointly conducted and reported on by WFP and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) as a means to determine the food and related needs of refugees – in Bangladesh ' s case , the mission focused on the refugee population from Myanmar residing both within and outside of the camps in Cox ' s Bazar . This significant undertaking will contribute to both organizations ' plans on how to continue assistance to this population while capitalising on opportunities to increase self-reliance .
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