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Highlights
WFP is assisting the Government of Uttar Pradesh in establishing Take-Home Ration (THR) production units.
A total of 204 THR units across 43 districts have become operational, fully meeting the initial scaleup target. The units are producing nutritious rations for children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adolescent girls.
Operational Updates
Social Protection and Supply Chain
• WFP has installed the fifth Flospan in Mizoram, which is a prefabricated storage structure that increases storage capacity and reduces food grain losses. WFP is supporting the Government of India in modernizing grain storage systems.
In Uttarakhand, WFP has installed 17 Annapurti or Grain-Dispensing Solution in supporting the government in scaling up its installation. WFP has installed 25 Annapurti solutions across India.
On 7 December, WFP held a capacity strengthening session on sampling methods for demographic and health survey. Government officials, consultants, and young professionals of the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office and NITI Aayog (the apex public policy think tank of the Government) participated in the session.
Nutrition and School Feeding
• Social Behaviour Change Communication campaign on fortified rice continued in Bihar. Fifty sensitisation sessions and rallies were organized in 50 Government schools.
• In Bihar, 173 rice millers and 17 Food and Civil Supplies officials were trained on quality assurance and quality control aspects of rice fortification.
Additionally, 289 Integrated Child Development Scheme officials from Bihar and Odisha were sensitized.
• To ensure the continued technical capacity at state levels, WFP has been facilitating the establishment of Technical Support Units (TSUs) on rice fortification. In Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, sensitization and operationalization of TSU teams have been completed.
*Women Empowerment *
• As part of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV) campaign, three events were organized. In the first session, an expert clinical psychologist shared relevant insights on gender and mental health. The second session was specifically organized for the security and housekeeping staff. The culminating session featured two experts - an artist and a social entrepreneur - who shared their personal stories of combating GBV.
• WFP visited the solar-powered cold storage unit set up in Dhenkanal, Odisha, and met with the members of women’s self-help groups who were trained earlier this year in operating and managing the unit. The mission confirmed successful operation, including post-harvest storage and adoption of staggered selling to gain better profits.
The groups also provided cold storage services to other smallholder farmers in the area. WFP will document the learnings from this pilot while continuing its support.
Climate and Resilience
• In October 2023, WFP participated in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment to evaluate the damages and losses caused by the Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Sikkim. WFP developed sectoral reports on animal husbandry, livestock, and forest and environment to analyse the livelihood losses and propose recovery strategies for the affected people.
• In Odisha, 12 women farmer units in Hinjlicut and Sanakhemundi have processed over 16 mt of cabbage under the Solar for Resilience (S4R) project.
Using the solar-based food processing technology, the women farmers produced nearly 780 kg of dried cabbage. The state government has identified additional 48 women farmers for the installation of 16 new solar drying units.
• As part of a project to enhance the resilience and adaptation of farming communities, a community adaptation planning exercise was completed in two villages in Odisha. This planning process is designed to empower communities to make collective decisions on priority actions to safeguard and better adapt their livelihoods to the changing climate.