Highlights
The President and First Lady of Indonesia launched the School Children Nutrition Programme (PROGAS).
Through the new Country Programme (CP), WFP will contribute to the Government’s plans to reduce food insecurity for 11 million Indonesians, improve nutrition and strengthen emergency preparedness.
Limited funding in the first year of the new Country Programme would diminish WFP’s ability to provide the policy advice, technical assistance and capacity development requested by the Government in pursuit of its national development plan.
Operational Updates
The Executive Office of the President, WFP and FAO jointly conducted a mission to East Nusa Tenggara Province on 28-29 July. The objective of this mission was to review data and processes utilized in the early warning systems (the Food Security and Vulnerability Atlas and the Food Security and Nutrition Dashboard) integrated in the Situation Room of the Executive Office of the President.
WFP facilitated two trainings on the School Children Nutrition Programme (PROGAS) in Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) and Belu Districts of Nusa Tenggara Timur:
a. The training of enumerators for the PROGAS Baseline Survey on 14 July; and
b. Hemocue training as part of the PROGAS sampling baseline on 18, 20 and 21 July. The objective of the training is to equip health staffs with knowledge and skills on how to collect and record the Hemoglobin samples from the students to measure anemia.
In preparation for La Niña WFP convened a ‘mapathon’ to compile and analyse weather and climate data on 29 July. The mapathon was attended by participants from the National Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics and National Institute of Aeronautics and Space.
WFP participated in the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) Simulation Exercise that was held on 25-28 July in Yogyakarta Province. WFP’s Deputy Country Director played an important role to test the United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Country Team (HCT)’s coordination mechanism as he heads the Logistics, Emergency Telecommunication and Food Security Clusters.