Summary of WFP assistance:
WFP’s relief operation aims to improve food and nutrition security among the most vulnerable, support the government’s efforts in building social cohesion in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and address malnutrition in the most food insecure districts. Specific activities include: lifesaving relief food assistance to IDPs; school feeding and livelihoods support activities in areas of return in FATA; nutrition programmes both in FATA and across the country; community based disaster risk reduction interventions in the most hazard prone and food insecure locations; and developing government’s capacities in disaster risk management. In 2015, WFP is targeting 3.9 million beneficiaries.
WFP’s initiative in developing and producing specialised nutritious products for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition —Acha Mum, Wawa Mum, High Energy Biscuits (HEB)—supports local producers in improving the quality and quantity of production to export quality and has the added benefit of stimulating the economy, creating employment and raising food safety standards. WFP’s nutritional product development in Pakistan has become a model for other countries and plays an important role in decreasing child malnutrition throughout the region. WFP purchases the vast majority of commodities for its food assistance locally (pulses, wheat, iodised salt). WFP mills wheat locally and fortifies it with an enhanced vitamin and mineral premix. Along with key actors, WFP has been working on supporting a national strategy for wheat flour fortification—an inexpensive, effective, and easily achievable local nutrition intervention—that builds local capacity to mill and fortify wheat for the commercial sector. Pakistan underwrites the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) collaborative approach which brings together people and resources needed to rapidly scale up nutrition specific interventions as well as cross-sectoral strategies that are nutrition sensitive. Since 2006, WFP has been supporting the Universal Salt Iodisation programme in Pakistan in partnership with the Micronutrient Initiative. It now covers 110 out of a total of 147 districts.
WFP also focuses on the enhancement of Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs). This project includes the installation of Humanitarian Response Facilities (HRF) in designated strategic locations at the provincial level. The project aims to augment the emergency and disaster response capacity of the government and the humanitarian community.
The HRF are being managed by the Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs) and store disaster relief equipment.
