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WFP Nepal Country Brief, November 2018

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Nepal
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WFP
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In Numbers

4.6 m food insecure people

1.4 m pregnant and nursing women malnourished

US$ 0 m six months (December 2018-May 2019) net funding requirements

USD 1 million distributed in two earthquake affected districts in November 2018

Operational Updates

  • WFP’s Executive Board approved the WFP Nepal Country Strategic Plan (2019-2022) in November. Country Director Ms Pippa Bradford and Nepal’s Minister of Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented the document to panel members in Rome. Implementation of the CSP will begin in January 2019.

  • Cash assistance for assets programme under the post-earthquake recovery project is on-going in two districts. In November, a total of 2,687 (42 percent women) households in Dhading received USD 630,861 and 1,605 (53 percent women) households in Gorkha received USD 390,783 in cash-based transfers.

  • A project inception workshop for the Adaptation Fund was successfully conducted in Surkhet. The event was attended by government officials and journalists. The project was officially launched by the Federal Minister of Forests and Environment – Mr Shakti Bahadur Basnet, in the presence of various stakeholders.

  • Together with the Government and UNHCR, WFP met representatives of refugees from Bhutan in Damak to inform them about WFP transitioning out of its food assistance programme from 2019.

  • WFP and the Government have reached a consensus that the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programme will be phased out in the Solukhumbu district at the end of 2018.

  • WFP held a forklift operators’ training at the Humanitarian Staging Area for 30 drivers from government and humanitarian agencies.
    Participating organisations included the Ministry of Home Affairs, Save the Children, Oxfam, Nepal Army and Police as well as Nepal Airlines.