Summary of WFP assistance: WFP in Tajikistan contributes to the food security, social protection and resilience goals of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2010-2015 and supports the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 1, 2 and 3. WFP’s activities reach approximately 500,000 vulnerable and food insecure people every year. WFP works predominantly in rural areas where food insecurity is highest; due to limited capacity and poverty, recurrent natural disasters low agricultural productivity and extreme weather conditions, communities’ physical access to food is frequently disrupted.
WFP’s major support is in the form of the School Feeding Programme, which delivers a daily hot school meal to over 350,000 school children. WFP’s assistance provides a nutrition sensitive social safety net for the most vulnerable and food insecure rural families, while contributing to the maintenance of high attendance and enrolment rates in rural areas.
Through its Tuberculosis (TB) project, WFP provides a social safety net to TB patients and their families, who are often among the poorest in the community. Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200122, launched in 2010 following the aftermath of the global financial and food crisis, improves access to food for vulnerable people affected by natural disasters and high food prices and provides assistance to malnourished children under five years of age.
WFP's bi-annual household survey and analysis, the Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS), is the most comprehensive household level analysis of food security in Tajikistan. It informs food security policy making and programme design by WFP, Government and partners, as well as on measures to address gender related vulnerabilities and inequalities. Food assistance for assets (FFA) activities also promote female leadership. Through the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), WFP builds the capacity of local government and partners to analyse the cause and severity of food insecurity and how to effectively plan responses.