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In Numbers
28,800 people benefited through resilience building, and livelihood support programmes
326,500 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children received health and nutrition services and supplementary nutritious foods through the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP)
2,600 moderately malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children received treatment through various CMAM activities.
Operational Updates
Emergency preparedness, Resilience and Livelihoods
• WFP partnered with the National Coordination Forum (NCF) on Anticipatory Actions to develop the National Implementation Strategy for Anticipatory Actions.
• Through multi-year livelihoods and climate resilience activities, WFP focuses on skills building and construction of community water management assets. In January, WFP featured products made by communities who completed livelihoods training courses, mostly by women, during the three-day Livestock Expo-2025 in Karachi (Sindh Province).
• Under WFP’s contribution to the UN system’s Living Indus Initiative, WFP continues to facilitate community-led construction of concrete water reservoirs to enhance water resource management in KP and Punjab. In January, the Soil and Water Conservation Department submitted a report on Living Indus Oasis project which covers the baseline and hydrological study conducted in the targeted areas.
Nutrition, Education and Social Protection
• WFP, in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan through the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP), supports pregnant and breastfeeding women from the poorest households. To date, the programme has enrolled 2.83 million pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) and children less than 2 years of age. In January, 326,500 women and children received 29.5 million sachets of nutritious foods, along with health services and nutrition awareness through 566 facilitation centres across 158 districts of the country.
• WFP initiated implementation of a treatment programme for moderately malnourished women and children in Jamshoro, Sindh. In January, WFP enrolled nearly 1,700 malnourished PBW and children. Village-based mapping has been completed for the complementary cash component.
• WFP continued support to chakkis (local small scale wheat millers) to produce fortified wheat flour. Under this project, WFP has installed microfeeders and supplied pre-mix to 150 local millers across the country, which enabled fortification of 42,000 mt of wheat flour. In January 2025, 2,230 mt of fortified wheat flour was produced by these local mills, benefiting 72,500 local consumers.
• Under the chakki support project, WFP conducted training sessions on chakki wheat flour fortification and quality assurance/quality controls procedures for the staff of the Punjab Food Authority.
• Due to winter school breaks, no school-based programmes were implemented in January. However, the Balochistan office team continued to plan for reopening of schools in March and the scale-up to 20,000 children in the Quetta pilot programme.
• Inspired by the pilot in Quetta, the Department of Education in Sindh Province met with WFP programme staff to request a similar pilot in a rural part of Karachi. Discussions began for a potential partnership, with co-funding by the provincial government.