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Standard Project Report 2016
mothers while greatly reducing customary intra-household food sharing. Initial feedback from field tests indicated
that the product was very well received by beneficiaries.
Several customised implementation modalities and collaborative platforms were employed for the implementation of
food and cash-based interventions. In the drought-affected districts of Sindh, WFP integrated its cash-based
intervention with the ongoing CMAM intervention in the same region. Programmatic convergence was considered to
be the priority eligibility criterion for participation in the FFA intervention. This approach captured the core
programme objectives of both interventions and the joint modality led to complementarity between the projects and
improved results. In FATA, the cash-based FFA intervention was implemented in four agencies, namely Khyber,
Bajaur, Muhmand and South Waziristan. WFP was the first United Nations agency to initiate recovery interventions
in the South and North Waziristan agencies. The intervention in Bajaur and Muhmand agencies was implemented in
collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), replicating the implementation model
employed in Chail Valley, Swat District, under the previous PRRO. Activities implemented under this project had a
holistic focus on community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR), and aimed to build the long-term resilience of
the targeted communities to future disasters and shocks. WFP implemented its response in Khyber agency as part
of a consortium led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where member agencies maximised
the programmatic and geographic alignment of their respective responses. WFP was the first United Nations
agency to implement a livelihood support intervention in South Waziristan agency to assist the recovery of the newly
returned internally displaced persons (IDPs).
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, WFP implemented the FFA intervention to support communities affected by the 2015
floods and earthquake in Chitral District. In the latter half of the year, WFP prepared for the implementation of a
second phase of this intervention, in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and other members of the Government of the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID)
operating in the region. These diverse partnership structures and implementation modalities embodied the
successful adoption of the objective of the PRRO to enhance programmatic integration and maximise alignment
with the Government and other development actors.
In 2016, WFP signed longer-term FLAs with several cooperating partners for a number of interventions. These
included one-year FLAs for CBDRM, school safety, third party monitoring and FATA warehouse management with
selected local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The duration of the agreements with transportation vendors
and for the clearance and transportation of shipments from the port was also increased this year. This increase in
contract duration was primarily attributable to the relatively stable operational environment in Pakistan during the
year. The longer-term contract facilitated streamlined programme implementation in 2016 with fewer delays due to
the time required for contract renewals, making them more efficient.
WFP supported the Planning Commission of Pakistan and the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and
Coordination through capacity development in terms of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programmes in the
country. In addition, WFP provided technical assistance for the development of Pakistan's multi-sectoral nutrition
strategy and national fortification strategy. National fortification standards were also revised with technical support
from WFP.
In 2016, consultations on the beneficiary feedback desk innovation were held with all relevant stakeholders in WFP
at the national and provincial level. The objective of these sessions was to gather inputs from future users for the
development of a holistic tool comprising the beneficiary feedback dashboard, an online complaint registration form
for beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, and a mapping element to indicate updated locations from which feedback
has been received. Based on the recommendations from these discussions, the tool is due to be developed and
rolled out in 2017.
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