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- 126,900 people received cash assistance through climate resilience and livelihood support programmes
- 411,700 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children received health and nutrition services and specialised nutritious foods through the Government’s Benazir Nashonuma Programme
- 10,400 secondary school girls received conditional cash stipends through the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Adolescent Girls’ Cash Stipend Programme
- 66 percent of the individuals assisted by WFP in March were women and girls
Operational Updates
Emergency preparedness, Resilience and Livelihoods
• WFP concluded a 5-month climate resilience project in four flood-affected districts spanning KP,
Sindh, and Balochistan. Project results include more than 200 trainings (food preservation, advanced embroidery, livestock management, financial literacy, entrepreneurship etc.) and 550 community structures, including access paths, flood protection walls and other structures, animal shelters, washing platforms to wash clothes, and fuel-efficient stoves, benefiting more than 300,000 people.
• On March 11, WFP signed an agreement with the Pakistan Meteorological Department to support their work in enhancing community level early warning capacities for climate forecasting.
• WFP received the ‘Notice of Effectiveness’ from the Green Climate Fund for the 4-year project on ‘Integrated Climate Risk Management for Strengthened Resilience to Climate Change in Buner and Shangla Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The project is valued at US$9.8 million and will commence next month.
Nutrition, Education and Social Protection
• Through the Government of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), WFP implements the national stunting prevention programme, which targets pregnant and breastfeeding women and children from the poorest households across the country. To date, the programme has provided services to 3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women and children less than 2 years of age. In March, 411,700 women and children received 35.9 million sachets of lipid based nutritional supplements, along with health services and nutrition awareness through 566 facilitation centres across 158 districts of the country.