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Indonesia Annual Country Report 2021 - Country Strategic Plan 2021 - 2025

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Overview

In 2021 WFP launched its second, five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for Indonesia. In mid-2021 Indonesia faced a devastating wave of COVID-19 which impacted overall health, the economy, livelihoods, food security, and nutrition. The decline in purchasing power increased the level of non-affordability of food and nutritious diets[1]. Furthermore, natural hazards and the impact of climate change continued to disrupt the food systems. This exacerbated the vulnerability of people already at risk of food insecurity and malnutrition, especially adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women. Through the CSP, WFP engaged in policy dialogue and provided technical assistance to support the Government’s agenda towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger and SDG 17, Partnerships for the Goals. Areas of focus included improving data and analysis to inform early warning systems, enhancing coordination and public private partnerships for disaster preparedness and response, strengthening nutrition-sensitive social protection, and integrating nutrition into the national school health programme. WFP's activities in these areas contributed to both its own and the Government's understanding, recommendations, and evidence-based response. The CSP is aligned with the Government’s Medium Term National Development Plan 2020-2024 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2021-2025 for Indonesia. Despite funding constraints and the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP delivered results in 2021 across all three CSP Strategic Outcomes. Under Strategic Outcome 1, WFP assisted the Ministry of Social Affairs in enhancing its Disaster Mitigation Information System and generating data of vulnerable populations affected by disasters and requiring social assistance. WFP also assisted the Ministry of Agriculture in producing Food Security and Vulnerability Atlases. In partnership with the Government and a wide range of stakeholders, WFP completed the Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis, which highlighted the unaffordability of a nutritious diet with significant geographic disparities across Indonesia. Under Strategic Outcome 2, WFP supported the National Disaster Management Agency and the Ministry of Social Affairs to enhance the capacity of national and sub-national clusters and technical and coordination groups to prepare for and respond to disasters, including during the peak of COVID-19. Furthermore, WFP enhanced the Ministry of Social Affairs’ community-based volunteers for disaster preparedness and response initiative (TAGANA) through the establishment of a Capacity Building Technical Working Group and a capacity-building framework. Under Strategic Outcome 3, the Ministry of Health and WFP launched a digital social and behaviour change communication campaign targeting adolescents. Through WFP’s technical assistance and advocacy, the Government and other stakeholders endorsed evidence-based recommendations to accelerate efforts towards the inclusion of fortified rice in the SEMBAKO social protection programme and in retail markets. WFP together with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supported the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology on strengthening nutrition education materials and delivery as well as making them available digitally. This can ensure continued investment in school-aged children even during disasters and the prolonged COVID-19-related school closures. The Ministry endorsed and disseminated the materials through an e-learning online platform. WFP with the other UN Rome-Based Agencies (RBAs), namely the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), finalized the RBAs’ Joint Country Strategic Plan 2021-2025 in Indonesia to promote sustainable and inclusive food systems for affordable and healthy diets. Following the Government endorsement of the RBAs’ Joint Plan, the RBAs initiated implementation through the design of a joint pilot. In 2021 WFP played a prominent role in fostering public-private partnership through its activities. This included leveraging private sector resources to accelerate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and convening stakeholders, including the private sector, in addressing food insecurity and malnutrition. Furthermore, and in line with SDG 17 targets, WFP together with line ministries identified opportunities for South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the context of food security and nutrition, and highlighted Indonesia's particular experience in early warning systems. These results were made possible with resources from the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund, UN Joint SDG Fund, the Government of Australia, the WFP COVID-19 South-South Opportunity Fund and the WFP Emerging Donor Matching Fund. In terms of private sector partnership, WFP continued its partnership with Cargill for strengthening nutrition for school-aged children and embarked on a partnership with DSM for enhancing accessibility and affordability of fortified rice.