Highlights
- In July, a Seasonal Livelihood Programming (SLP) training for WFP facilitators and government personnel was held in order to coordinate consultations at province level in the upcoming months.
WFP Assistance
With the objective of ensuring the food and nutrition security of the population, WFP and the country's leading social protection programme under the Vice Presidency’s Cabinet for Social Policy, Progresando con Solidaridad, have partnered since 2009.
WFP provides a complete package of interventions, including capacity development to community leaders and health practitioners, coordination amongst actors, community nutrition education and promotion of preventive care for children through primary healthcare units. Through the primary health care system and practitioners of the Ministry of Health, WFP provides micronutrient powders to 78,900 children aged 6-59 months; complementary nutritious foods (Supercereal Plus) to 9,500 children at risk of chronic or acute malnutrition; and Supercereal to pregnant and nursing women with micronutrient deficiencies and to the elderly with inadequate food consumption.
The baseline survey of the nutrition component (2011) found an anaemia prevalence of 60.9 percent in children aged 6 to 59 months enrolled in the Progresando con Solidaridad programme. The midterm evaluation of 2013, reported a 50 percent reduction in anaemia prevalence, with a significant decrease among children aged 6-23 months, corresponding to the greatest window of opportunity for programme impact.
WFP provides continuous support to the Ministry of Public Health. WFP has trained health care providers of the Ministry of Health on nutrition counselling for people living with HIV. WFP has also strengthened programmes of the Ministry of Public to monitor child growth and development, through trainings and field visits. In its HIV and nutrition activities, WFP provides direct support to 290 doctors, psychologists and counselors of 77 integrated heath units and 175 women living with HIV through nutrition education activities. The programme assists 36,400 people living with HIV who attend the integrated health centers.
WFP’s Forecast-Based Emergency Preparedness for Climate Risks project focuses on component 3 of the German Federal Foreign Office’s action plan for humanitarian adaptation to climate change. The project complements WFP’s efforts to improve government partner capacities to reduce risk and provide necessary humanitarian assistance to their citizens. It focuses on:
improving climate risk analysis and understanding;
developing early warning systems based on indicators and thresholds, and linking these to standard operating procedures for preparedness;
Strengthening core areas of response management capability.
The project counterpart in the Dominican Republic is the National Emergency Commission.