WFP has two ongoing projects that serve Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: the country programme (CP) 200319 and the protracted relief and recovery operation (PRRO) 200787. These projects aim to prevent undernutrition and enable year-round access to food for vulnerable groups, including pregnant and lactating women and young children. They directly contribute to four of the five pillars of the Zero Hunger Challenge. The CP, lasting from 2013-2017, is implemented in the mid- and far-western region (MFWR) districts and is aligned with the United
Nations Development Assistance Framework and the Country Programme Action Plan signed with the Ministry of Finance.Through PRRO 200787, WFP supports Bhutanese refugees in Nepal with food assistance. The project is implemented in partnership with the Government and mainly the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Together with the Government and UNHCR, WFP started a targeted, needs-based food distribution system in January 2016 in light of gradually declining numbers of people in refugee camps.Having launched humanitarian operations to support the populations affected by the major earthquakes that hit Nepal in 2015, WFP continued its emergency operation (EMOP) 200668 until January 2016 and the logistics cluster and telecommunication services special operation (SO) 200848 until April 2016 to address remaining needs in promoting household food security and delivery of food and supplies to high mountainous locations. The earthquake in April 2015 caused almost 9,000 deaths and widespread damage to infrastructure, and the scale of the response required regional augmentation of capacity and resources. As a follow-up to the EMOP, WFP launched PRRO 200875 to support the rehabilitation of the three earthquake-affected districts—Gorkha, Dhading and Nuwakot. As the planned rural community infrastructure works of the project were postponed due to delays in government approvals, the planned nutrition services were the first activities that were started within the framework of the PRRO in these the earthquake-affected districts.From 2014 to 2015, the failure of the monsoon season gradually led to consecutive poor summer harvests in October and November of 2015 in the MFWR districts, and rains continued to fail during winter cropping in the first quarter of 2016. In addition, the economic blockade from September 2015 to February 2016 at the Nepal-India border resulted in high transport costs and greatly inflated commodity prices. It also adversely affected household food security and income in the region. In response, WFP supported over 19,000 drought-affected people with food and nutrition support through an immediate response emergency operation (IR-EMOP) 200983 in Mugu and Jumla districts of the MFWR in mid-2016.The CP, PRROs and the emergency operations directly contribute to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1: No poverty, SDG 2: End hunger and SDG 4: Quality education, while the special operations contribute to SDG 17:Partnerships for the Goals.
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Annual Report
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Keywords:
POPULATION, NATURAL DISASTERS, DROUGHTS, FLOODS, CLIMATIC CHANGE, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, FOOD INSECURITY, SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMME, SCHOOL MEALS, SANITATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, FOOD HYGIENE, EMPLOYMENT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, FOOD SUPPLY, WATER SUPPLY, WOMEN, ANEMIA, POVERTY, CHILD HEALTH, MATERNAL, BHUTANESE REFUGEES, CAMPS, FOOD DISTRIBUTION, HEALTH SERVICES, FREE EDUCATION
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Food and Emergency humanitarian logistict support
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14.05.04
- Welfare And Social Services
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