World Food Programme

It is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. It reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance i 75 countries each year.

Focus Area

• Climate Action
  The World Food Programane is collaborating with local communities, international researchers, and partner governments to analyze and comprehend the effects of climate change. Programs, innovations, policy changes, and technical assistance are all being used to assist those who are most vulnerable in becoming food and climate secure.

• Disaster reduction
  Disasters affect lives and agricultural productivity, causing poverty and hunger. The World Food Programme collaborates with the government and local communities to enhance safety nets, conduct emergency preparedness studies, and implement early warning systems in order to lessen the impact of catastrophes on people's access to food.

• Gender equality
  Only if men, women, girls, and boys have equitable access to food, nourishment, and opportunities will the world sustainably end hunger. resources, By utilizing our food assistance to close the gender gap, the World Food Programme and the rights movement achieve gender equality. One of the main focuses of WFP operations is gender equality and women's empowerment. The organization improves access to food and livelihoods through its work with school meals, smallholder farmers, health, nutrition, and protection programs.

• Nutrition
  In order to provide vulnerable populations with access to nourishing diets, such as women, children, and those getting HIV and tuberculosis treatment, the World Food Programme collaborates with governments and partners. Our programs for providing Specialized Nutritious Foods, fortifying staples, and promoting nutritional variety involve creating and implementing school feeding.

• Smallholder market support
  Small-scale farmers are particularly susceptible to hunger. Together with national governments, the World Food Programme works to create sustainable food systems that better integrate smallholder farmers throughout the value chain. This involves purchasing their WFP programs, exposing them to formal markets, and facilitating access to skills, information, and infrastructure to help people expand their livelihoods and become more risk-resistant.

Nepal Strategic Plan (2019-2023)

With the adoption of a federal democratic republic structure in 2015, Nepal entered a new era and opened up opportunities for the advancement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Right to Eat Act guarantees everyone's right to food.

The objective is to incorporate SDG 2 targets into national policies, budgets, and subnational plans in order to increase the coherence of associated efforts in the areas that are being targeted. The WFP's country strategic plan is in line with the recommendations of the zero hunger strategic review to eradicate all hunger by 2030 and is built to work with both the new federal government's structure and the right to food guaranteed by the constitution.

Strategic Development Goals 2 and 17 are addressed by five associated strategic outcomes in the national strategic plan:

• Strategic outcome 1: Affected populations in Nepal have timely access  to adequate food and nutrition during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and other shocks.
• Strategic outcome 2: Food-insecure people in targeted areas have improved nutrition throughout the key stages of their lives by 2025.
• Strategic outcome 3: Vulnerable communities in remote food-insecure areas have improved food security and resilience to climate and other shocks by 2030.
• Strategic outcome 4: The Government has strengthened capabilities to provide essential food security and nutrition services and respond to crises by 2023.
• Strategic outcome 5: Government efforts towards achieving zero hunger by 2030 are supported by inclusive and coherent policy frameworks across all spheres of government by 2023.

The Government is assisted in achieving the Strategic Development Goals through this country's strategic plan. The World Food Programme (WFP) anticipates moving away from the direct execution of food security and nutrition programs and toward more specialized technical assistance to the Government and for national programs. Emergency preparedness and response will be a WFP priority due to Nepal's susceptibility to natural disasters; although no operations are presently required under strategic outcome 1, they are included to prepare for potential future responses. Regarding support for women's emancipation through initiatives supporting Strategic Development Goal 2, the Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens was consulted.

The national action plan for achieving zero hunger and the framework for United Nations development assistance for Nepal for 2018–2022 are both reflected in the country strategic plan, which is also in line with the multi-sector nutrition plan for 2018–2022 (MSNP 11), the development plan for the school sector for 2016–2023, and the 14th three-year plan, which covers 2017–2019.

Geographical Coverage

Emergency Nutrtion programme Response Programme was implemented in five districts of Province 2(Rautahat, Sarlahi, Mahottari, Siraha and Saptari),

Maternal and Child health and Nutrition: Programme is being implemented in five districts of Province 6 (Mugu, Jumla, Humla, Dolpa and Kalikot)

Major Programme Focuses in Nepal

•  Emergency Nutrition Response Programme
  The emergency Nutrition Response program was implemented following with objectives:

  • To Prevent malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women and child aged 6-59 months.

  • To Prevent deterioration of MAM children aged 6-59 months to SAM.

  • To create awareness among the public regarding malnutrition.

  • To enhance knowledge on maternal, infant and young child feeding practices.
    
    The major activities implemented were:

    • Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programmeconcluded in October in all municipalities of Province 1 and 2.

    • Nutrition screening through MUAC.

    • Nutrition education

• Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Programme:
  
  The Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Program is being implemented by the government of Nepal with ongoing assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme. The primary goal of the program was to enhance the nutritional health of children aged 6 to 23 months and pregnant and lactating women (PLW). The primary goals of the program are to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition practices, support the improvement of basic health services, and provide super cereals to pregnant women and kids between the ages of 6 and 59 months. Under WFP's, emergency preparedness activity, WFP conducted a four-day practical emergency logistics training (PELT) in October. Held in Nepalgunj,

• Bilateral Agencies
  It is the government agencies which operates directly between two countries. It receives funding from funding from government in home countries and to aid specific developing countries. Fund flows from official sources directly to official sources in the recipient country.