Highlights
WFP is in urgent need of funding for its Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) and United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) operations in Afghanistan. For the PRRO, WFP’s current stock is only sufficient to cover a part of its food assistance activities planned for January 2017. Unless new contributions are received in the coming weeks, the lack of funding will result in a suspension of the programme or a reduction in its presence in some regions. Similarly, UNHAS is also facing a critical funding shortfall; unless new contributions are confirmed in the coming weeks, WFP will need to shut down the operation in February.
Under its emergency food assistance operation, WFP has reached 124,232 undocumented Afghan returnees from Pakistan, newly displaced people and refugees in Khost and Paktika provinces.
WFP Assistance
WFP Afghanistan’s PRRO is designed to respond to the needs of the most food insecure people including those affected by conflict, natural disaster and seasonal food insecurity in priority districts across the country. WFP’s nutrition programmes are integrated into the Government’s basic package of health services and will treat moderate acute malnutrition in children under five years of age, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The PRRO will also support the recovery of communities, families and individuals affected by shocks through vocational services training and asset creation with a focus on disaster risk reduction.
In response to the mid-term operation evaluation of the PRRO, WFP revised the operation with the following changes (Targeted number of people are subject to funding levels);
An 18-month extension that covers from January 2017 to June 2018 for all programme activities, assisting 3.3 million vulnerable Afghan with food or cash based assistance;
Using the 2016 Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) for prioritisation of activities and improved geographic targeting;
Mainstreaming Purchase for Progress (P4P) into the regular programme structure.
P4P Afghanistan programmes focus on a three-pillar approach with interventions throughout the value chain:
Production – support to small holder farmers; Processing and transformation – national fortification of wheat flour and the soya bean value chain; Promotion and quality assurance: Increased consumer demand and improved food quality and safety.