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Overview
WFP China continued to implement its Country Strategic Plan (CSP) (2017-2021) which was extended to June 30, 2022 before WFP China’s new Country Strategic Plan (2022-2025) became effective on July 1, 2022. WFP‘s engagement in China under CSP(2017-2021), which is covered by this report, focused on five strategic outcomes: (1) helping China implement, extend and improve national nutrition programmes; (2) Improving the livelihoods and food security of smallholder farmers; (3) enhancing the resilience of smallholder farmers to shocks; (4) Supporting other developing countries in enhancing food security and nutrition through South-South Cooperation(SSC); (5) enhancing food security and nutrition in developing countries by increased private-sector resource and public-private partnership.
WFP continued to support Chinese Government’s commitment to reducing malnutrition among children through the implementation of four pilot projects of preschool nutrition improvement program in the rural areas of Hunan,
Guangxi, Gansu and Sichuan Province. These pilot projects aim to demonstrate the value of extending national school meals program to early childhood stage for nutrition improvement and rural human capital development.
Approximately 7,000 preschool children (3,000 female, 4,000 male) received about 600,000 nutritious meals in 61 preschools in the four provinces.
In line with China’s rural revitalization strategy, WFP supported smallholder farmers to increase their production capacity of nutritious and high-quality agricultural products and promote the establishment of the nutrition sensitive value chain to improve smallholder farmers’ nutritional status, increase their income, and enhance their resilience to climate change. WFP continued these endeavors through three pilot projects, namely the Kiwi Value Chain Development Project in Anhui province, the Zinc-enriched Potato Project in Gansu Province, and the Holistic Agricultural Risk Management Project in Jilin Province. Approximately 8,000 smallholder farmers (female 3,000, male 5,000) benefited from these projects.
WFP China, functioning as the Centre of Excellence for Rural Transformation (China COE), shares valuable experiences and expertise in poverty alleviation, food security and nutrition improvement among developing countries in the context of South-South and triangular Cooperation (SSTC) through policy dialogue, technical training, deployment of experts, policy research and other activities based on demand-driven approach and country needs analysis. The policy dialogues and technical exchange seminars reached about 500 people from more than 40 developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The WFP-China South-South Cooperation Knowledge Sharing Platform launched in 2022 serves as a digitalized SSC knowledge management tool contributing to the capacity building activities. In the context of WFP-MARA Global South-South and Triangular Cooperation field initiative, China COE provided technical support to 16 country level projects to improve productivity and food security in the developing countries by tapping into China's Zero Hunger solutions. These SSTC projects benefited around 1 million people, including smallholders and government officials.
WFP China strengthened its partnerships with government agencies in China in supporting other developing countries to improve food security and nutrition through international humanitarian assistance. WFP China further enhanced mutual understanding with China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) and China International Center for Technical Exchanges (CICETE) and received increased confidence on WFP as a trusted partner on food security as well as international development cooperation. In the first half of 2022, WFP received USD 3 million contribution from CIDCA, which enabled WFP to provide humanitarian assistance to 170,160 people in Burkina Faso and better responding to crisis and emergencies. WFP also worked closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) for a wide range of recipients with scaled up funding support as well as to facilitate SSTC.
WFP China continued to establish itself as a partner of choice to encourage private sector, charitable foundations, and individual donors to support WFP’s efforts towards achieving Zero Hunger. In 2022, WFP worked closely with established private partners including Teck Resources, Cargill, General Mills, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, etc. while exploring new partnership with leading Chinese companies to leverage more resources in support of WFP’s programs.
WFP China also explored innovative collaboration opportunities with charitable foundations in China to leverage their big base of private partners as well as High-Net-Worth Individual (HNWI) in contributing to WFP’s programs. In the first half of 2022, WFP China raised approximately USD 442,000 from the public through online fundraising platforms for WFP’s School feeding programmes in China, Laos and Cambodia.