Attachments
Highlights
- A joint programme was organized by the Government of Nepal, the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, the United Kingdom Department for International Development and WFP on 24 and 25 May 2017 at the humanitarian staging area (HSA). The visit aimed to showcase the different facets of the HSA to high-level partners and humanitarian agencies, and to present a sustainable model for this common humanitarian platform.
Nepal Country Programme (CP 200319) supports the Government of Nepal in enhancing the food and nutrition security of vulnerable communities and increasing resilience to disasters. The CP covers four areas:
Livelihood creation provides seasonal employment and livelihood training, rehabilitation of rural roads and trails, irrigation channels and other community assets. Under these projects, WFP implements the Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (RWEE) project, a joint five-year initiative with UN Women, FAO and IFAD, that promotes the empowerment of rural women through livelihood activities.
Education support is provided to the Ministry of Education to achieve holistic approaches to student well-being by improving nutritional intake through school meals. In addition, support is provided to continue increasing knowledge related to nutrition.
WFP has been supporting implementation of the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programme in partnership with the Ministry of Health to prevent chronic malnutrition amongst expectant mothers and children aged 6 to 23 months.
Established by WFP as a field surveillance mechanism in 2002 at the height of the conflict, the Nepal Food Security Monitoring System, known as NeKSAP, has expanded and evolved as a nationwide food security monitoring system, based on strong collaboration between the Government, WFP and other institutions at the national and sub-national level. NeKSAP was institutionalized in the Government in June 2016 and WFP continues to provide technical assistance.
The earthquake recovery project (PRRO 200875):
The protracted relief and recovery operation (PRRO) supports local communities and the Government to “build back better” in the most food-insecure earthquake-affected communities. Infrastructure and resilient livelihood projects are delivered through food- and cash-assistance-for-assets (FFA/CFA) projects providing either cash-based transfers or food assistance. Community asset rehabilitation activities, i.e. repairing rural roads and trails to enable connectivity to major route ways and re-establishing access in high hilly areas, promoting resilient livelihoods and addressing post-earthquake food and nutritional needs, are ongoing in three earthquake-affected districts: Nuwakot, Dhading and Gorkha.
The emergency response project for logistics and telecommunications (SO 200848) comprised the Logistics Cluster, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, and the Remote Access Operation (RAO) during the initial response to the earthquake emergency. At present, WFP is continuing the RAO, with trail work in earthquake-affected districts.
The emergency preparedness project for capacity building (SO 200999) was approved in November 2016.
This project builds on the national and district level emergency logistics capacities to respond to future emergencies.