Attachments
Highlights
• WFP organised the state-level stakeholder workshop in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 27 June, as part of the social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) campaign on fortified rice with more than 30 participants from the Departments of Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Women and Child Development, School, and Mass Education, Health, and Family Welfare, UNICEF, UNDP, Azeem Premji Foundation, Deloitte, and UN Women.
Operational Updates
Social Protection and Supply Chain
• In partnership with the Department of Food and Public Distribution, WFP completed the supply chain optimization of the transportation network for the public distribution system for 13 of the 31 target states.
• WFP facilitated the training on “Communication and Dissemination of Evaluation Findings” on 7 June as part of the Mid-Career Training Programme for Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration, which was attended by 170 IAS officers from across the country.
• WFP and the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office of NITI Aayog organized a capacity strengthening workshop on 16 June on “Output Outcome Monitoring Framework (OOMF)” for officials of the Directorate of Evaluation Organisation (DEO),
Planning Department, Government of Rajasthan.
Nutrition and School Feeding
• The scale-up of the Food Safety for MDM’ (FOSAFMDM) app for building the capacity of school cooks in Odisha, was completed in June, where WFP has trained 629 master trainers (school cooks) selected from all the blocks who will further train 100,000 school cooks across the state.
• Sensitization of government stakeholders on rice fortification continued in June. WFP reached 1,400 staff in Chhattisgarh, Haryana, and Odisha. In Uttar Pradesh, WFP supported the Food Corporation of India with a regional workshop for training 23 manufacturers of fortified rice kernels and 8 officials of Food Department. In Uttarakhand, WFP trained 134 master trainers from state government departments.
• 147 take-home ration (THR) production units are now operational across Uttar Pradesh and provide nutritious THR products to more than 4.1 million government beneficiaries. In June, around 50 mt of THR products were produced and 40 mt of THR products were distributed to 15,800 children, pregnant and breastfeeding women across three blocks of Jaipur district, Rajasthan. In Odisha, total 11.1 mt of THR was produced for distribution in two blocks.
• Initial findings of the evaluation of the pilot project on rice fortification in Malkangiri District were presented to the national government recently as part of WFP’s contribution to learning and documentation of the scale-up of fortified rice across all food-based safety nets in the country.
Women’s empowerment
• In partnership with the Mission Shakti Department, WFP finalized two assessment reports that analysed the empowerment impact of women’s self-help groups (SHG) engaging in electricity meter reading and pisciculture activities for the Government of Odisha.
Most groups reporting increased status and respect in family and communities and feelings of pride among family members, greater participation in decision making.
• WFP completed the midline assessment of the project on “Capacity Development for Financial and Digital Literacy” among women SHG Groups in the Delhi-National Capitol Region.
Climate, Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction
• WFP staff participated in the pre-inception meeting for the Regional Adaptation Fund project between India and Sri Lanka from 5-9 June in WFP Sri Lanka Country Office. The meeting was organized to orient the country office on implementation arrangements and planning for the regional inception workshop.
• More than 330 farmers and 90 self-help group members participated in a village-level refresher training of farmers on the participatory integrated climate services for agriculture (PICSA) approach along with village-level kharif (July-October season) planning in Ganjam, Odisha.
• Women farmers have been identified for solar-based post-harvest drying activities in two blocks of Ganjam district for 12 units of solar dryer equipment. Primary processing has been initiated at Giria village with 6 tons of cabbage already dried using solar drying equipment.
Gender and Inclusion
• The WFP India Gender Results Network organized a staff capacity strengthening session on 26 June on the use of gender-sensitive language