In Numbers
- 339,600 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children received health and nutrition services and supplementary nutritious foods through the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP)
- 11,700 secondary school girls received cash stipends through the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Adolescent Girls’ Cash Stipend Programme
- 47,700 people benefited through climate resilience and livelihood enhancement activities.
Operational Updates
Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Livelihoods
• Under a three-year MoU with the National Disaster Management Authority, WFP and the Government of Balochistan's Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) established a technical working group for advancing anticipatory action initiatives
• WFP validated anticipatory action protocols for the Indus River flooding with simulation exercises in Dera Ismail Khan (KP) and Dadu (Sindh). Simulation exercises were conducted, testing early warning systems, cash disbursement, evacuation, and shelter management.
• WFP is implementing a 4-month project across four flood-affected districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, and Balochistan with the objective of creating community assets to mitigate the effects of seasonal flooding and supporting women in the communities with livelihood training and coaching. These are all done in consultation with community members. The project commenced in late 2024 and will be completed by end of March 2025.
• Through multi-year livelihoods and climate resilience activities in three flood-affected districts of Sindh, WFP is focusing on skills building and construction of community water management assets. So far, over 3,400 women have participated in skills development trainings.
• Under WFP’s contribution to the UN system’s Living Indus Initiative, WFP has facilitated community-led construction of concrete water reservoirs to enhance water resource management in KP and Punjab. In December, WFP inaugurated a display centre in Rajanpur (southern Punjab) to help to sell products prepared by women participants, established nurseries to support reafforestation, and provided digital marketing training to female entrepreneurs for enhanced business outreach.