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January 2015
For Period: October December 2014
Food Security Newsletter
Inside this newsletter:
Emergency Response Fund
KP/FATA
2
ERF Monitoring Missions in 2
KP/FATA
Recovery Need Assessment
(RNA) for Flood Affected
Areas 2014
2
Study on Livelihood and Food 3
Security of Returnees in
FATA
The Cash Working Group
(CWG) Updates
3
Integrated Food Security
Phase Classification (IPC)
4
Upcoming Events:
 FAO-WFP joint study for
FATA returnees - Data
analysis with draft report.
 Harmonized assessment for
drought affected areas in
Sindh and Balochistan.
 NTWG and PTWGs meetings at national and provincial level.
 National FS WG meeting
 National and provincial
Cash Working Group meetings
HCT - Strategic Planning 2015 for Food Security
in KP/FATA
Food Security Cluster has
strategize the response for
Temporarily Displaced Persons
(TDPs) and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of KP/
FATA for year 2015 and
around 1.63 million people
were planned as target caseload
to improve and enhance nutrition status by increasing agriculture production as integral
means of livelihood. Under the
collaboration of food security
cluster members, FSC has addressed the most urgent food
security and livelihood needs
of displaced, families living in
and off camps and hosting
areas of KP including Bannu,
D.I Khan, Hangu, Kohat,
Lakki Marwat, Nowshera, Peshawar, Tank and returnees in
Khyber, Kurram, North Waziristan, Orakzai and South
Waziristan agencies of FATA.
Food Security Cluster has prioritized requirement need of
around $ 173 million for providing the assistance in term of
nutrition-balanced relief food
rations, emergency livestock
feed to protect their livelihood
assets, medication, vegetable
seeds, milking kits and agriculture based infrastructure in the
areas of in and off camps and
returns in KP/FATA. For
effective monitoring of food
security interventions, food
security cluster has framed
efficient and well coordinated
monitoring framework under
Strategic Response Plan (SRP)
– 2015.
Tharparkar Drought
The arid zone areas of the
Sindh province, is the most
drought prone part of Pakistan.
The current drought in Sindh
is an integral part of an ongoing phenomenon resulting high
impact in term of scale and
intensity. In corollary, the loss
of precious lives and mean’s
livelihood affected the overall
situation of food security
among children, pregnant and
lactating women and elderly
Tharparkar - Children at risk
inhabitant of drought affected
districts of Sindh. In last year
2014, over 620 individuals
were died; among them over
60% and 22% are children and
women respectively, large
population extremely vulnerable to disasters due to a myriad of factors, underlined by
chronic poverty.
On average, around 48% people of these areas are reliant on
livestock and agriculture as
primary means of income as
reported in different assessments published in 2014 by
food security cluster members.
Prevailing situation and loss of
income with depleting livelihoods increase the threat of
food insecurity and malnutrition. Moreover, limited sources
of safety nets result in people
Tharparkar - Livestock as major
source of livelihood
adopting
negative
coping
strategies. Access to clean
drinking water, poor sanitation
and hygiene awareness, exacerbates the situation causing high
morbidity and mortality from
water and vector borne diseases. Although, Government
is providing the High Energy
Biscuits (HEB) and wheat to
affected population till December 2014.
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Emergency Response Fund (ERF) - KP/FATA
For North Waziristan displacement response, the Emergency Response Fund
allocated initially US $ 300,000 to food
security cluster, to support 2,733 affected
families with livestock input in district
Lakki Marwat and Karak by three implementing partners JEN, SHID and Muslim
Aid. In which, Japan Emergency NGO
will support 1,200 families at Lakki Marwat, SHID will support 930 families at
Lakki Marwat and Muslim Aid will support 603 families at Karak with the
awarded projects of ERF support displaced person (DPs) with livestock inputs
including livestock feed and fodder , feeding and drinking kits, Urea Molasses
Blocks (UMB), and mineral supplements
for livestock.
Additionally, the Food Security Cluster
has further been given US $ 200,000 to
support 1,154 displaced families at Togh
Sarai camp in district Hungu. The project
was awarded to SHID and the implementation is subject to approval of NoC from
PDMA/PaRRSA. The assistance is aimed
to support all camp based families with
cash by involving them (males and females)
in different vocational training activities
and daily-wage work to rehabilitate camp
infrastructure.
ERF Monitoring Missions in KP/FATA
carried a monitoring mission with ERF to
Lakki Marwat and Karak.
Lakki Marwat - Monitoring mission of JEN
project for livestock assistance under ERF
For the purpose of assessing the degree
compliance and progress of the ERF
funded project for NWA displaces persons, the Food Security Cluster jointly
Japan Emergency NGO had already
reached their initial 900 targets besides the
coordination with district administration
for allocation of more villages to identify
and register additional 300 beneficiary families. Muslim Aid had completed their registration of beneficiaries while the inputs had
arrived at their warehouse for distribution
among the selected beneficiaries. SHID
was still waiting for their NoC to be
granted. At the latest, JEN and Muslim Aid
had completed their targets while SHID
has registered their beneficiaries after been
granted with NoC. They’ve also received a
No-Cost-Extension from ERF and would
soon be distributing livestock inputs
among the selected beneficiaries.
Karak - Monitoring mission of Muslim Aid
project for livestock assistance under ERF
Recovery Need Assessment (RNA) for Flood Affected Areas 2014
Following Multi-sector Initial Rapid Assessment-2014 (MIRA), a multi-agency
Recovery Need Assessment (RNA) was
carried out by National Disaster Management Authority with the technical support
from UNDP, FAO, WFP, ILO and UNHABITAT. Recovery Need Assessment
covered 21 floods affected districts of
Punjab and 5 districts of Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (AJK). RNA relied on secondary
data from various sources including MIRA
-2014, satellite imageries and data from
relevant government line departments.
The assessment not only highlighted the
utmost needs of affected communities for
recovery and rehabilitation but also estimated the cost of recovery. In addition,
RNA provided useful recommendations for
resilience based recovery particularly in the
domain of food security. These recommendations included diversification in livelihood portfolio, promotion of flood resistant crops, floods resilient infrastructure,
participatory re-forestation and rangeland
improvement and improved food storage.
Multan - Damaged cotton crop due to floods
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For Period: October - December 2014
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Study on Livelihood and Food Security of Returnees in FATA
Kurram Agency - Livelihood activities of returnees
To assess the early recovery needs of
FATA returnees, FAO, WFP and IRC
jointly conducting an assessment in six out
of seven tribal agencies. Since the inception
of complex emergency in KP and FATA,
Food security cluster is providing food and
livelihood support to the displaced households residing in and off- camp areas. It is
estimated that over 2 million people have
returned back to their areas of residence in
past few years. The limited available information about the situation in areas of return except number of families that have
returned and received assistance is due to
security concerns. The assessment of returnees is designed to fill this information
gap and to provide the necessary basis for
effective and principled targeting of returnees and planning for durable solutions.
Data collection through household interviews, key informant interviews and market
assessment has been completed, whereas
draft findings will be available in February
2015.
Bajaur Agency - Returnees during day labor
activities
The Cash Working Group (CWG) Updates
A 2-day training workshop on the “The
Use of Cash Training in Disaster Risk
Reduction” was organized in Karachi (19
-20 December 2014) and Islamabad (2627 December 2014) with the objective to
“Enhance capacity of cash and DRR
practitioners in planning and implementing cash-based interventions; mainstreamed with the Disaster Risk Reduction component”.
Karachi - Group Photo (The Use of Cash
Training in Disaster Risk Reduction)
DRR can be a stand-alone activity particularly in preparedness planning and advocacy
issues; however it is often an integral part
of humanitarian interventions. The need
for this training was realized considering
the increase in cash-based programmes in
Pakistan especially Cash for Work and
Conditional Cash Grants, as well as Cash
for Trainings. Planned with DRR considerations in mind, each of these modalities
have the potential to build resilience of
vulnerable communities living in hazard
prone areas or vulnerable conditions, and
increase their opportunities of pursuing
sustainable livelihoods. 45 participants from
International and Local NGOs, and Government departments (including staff from
the National Disaster Management Authority, Agriculture, and Livestock department)
attended the training. The trainers included;
Mr. Falak Nawaz (WFP), Masooma Haider
(FAO), Rabeea Ahmed (WFP), as well as
Mr. Shuja Uddin and Mr. Mubushar Hus-
sain (DRR Experts/Consultants) who
were invited as Resource Persons for
some specific topics; the link between
disaster and development, and mainstreaming DRR in different sectors. Other
than presentations, the two days training
workshop also included group work, discussions, and sharing experiences from
the field to make the event participatory
and interesting.
Karachi - Session on DRR (The Use of Cash
Training in Disaster Risk Reduction)
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For Period: October - December 2014
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
Year 2014 was the 10th anniversary year of IPC worldwide, where
to respond to decision makers' call for a consensual, rigorous and
comparable food security analysis, IPC acute food security analysis was carried out for Kharif cropping season from Oct-Dec
2014 in Pakistan by conducting 07 IPC analysis workshops over
the country, where more than 300 food security experts have
shared their knowledge to conduct IPC acute food security analysis at district level. The district level analysis of 148 districts over
the country showed that IPC have very positive impact in periodic monitoring of the food security situation, while it also highlights that the everyday realities and challenges are also impacting
on the food security at all levels especially at household level.
Based on the technical feedback from the last analysis (Rabi
Cropping Season - Mar - May 2014) and contribution of experts
from government in data and information sharing has made the
IPC analysis more rigorous in relation to its development and
implementation.
KPK - IPC Acute Food Security Analysis Workshop
Following the IPC framework, based on the list of 20 indicators
both from contributing factors including availability, access, utilization, vulnerability and stability, as well as on outcome factors
including nutritional status, food consumption, livelihood change
and mortality, food security situation in each district was ana-
lyzed. Some districts were classified in phase 3 and 4 like Tor Garh
in KP province, due to prevalence of high levels of poverty, remoteness and natural disasters. Sectarian conflict and low food consumption score are other important point of reference showing
overall situation of food security presumably poor. Similarly, in few
highly urban district Hyderabad was classified as moderately food
insecure due to the rapid urbanization and the resulting loss of fertile agricultural land, the mass entry of residents from other districts
leading to issues of crime. Most of the agencies and FRs were classified under phase 3 and 4 as the area is extremely poor and food
insecure. According to the basic socio-economic indicators, i.e.,
literacy rate, income per capita, accessibility and health index, all
FATA agencies are ranked at bottom 23 agencies of Pakistan with
the lowest composite indicator. The growing insecurity due to insurgency, drone attacks and crews had negative effect not only on
human lives but also on agriculture livelihoods, loss agriculture assets. In the districts of AJK and GB, withdrawal of subsidies will
have a major effect in terms of price hike in the area. It will also
have an impact on physical access of the wheat flour.
In year 2014, IPC in Pakistan has developed its ownership among
various stakeholders of districts, provincial and national level government departments including planning and development, agriculture and livestock, PDMAs and NDMA and important of all by the
Ministry of National Food Security and Research. Furthermore
need to establish increased, decentralized and sustainable IPC technical capacity at the national and sub-national levels identified to
strengthen the relevance and rigor of IPC. Furthermore competent
authorities, public sector organizations realized that IPC approach is
not a standalone initiative; rather it ensures integration and capacity
building to increase and ensure food security by factoring climate
change, gender and resilience through IPC analysis into development and humanitarian programmes.
IPC in Pakistan has moving ahead in 2015 with new challenges and
initiatives like IPC Chronic Analysis, IPC Nutrition Piloting, IPC
Cross country study visit for fertilization knowledge sharing, integration of IPC and its results in national food security framework/
strategy, creating synergies and building policy coherence, in order
to increase impact on decision making.
Food Security Newsletter
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Food Security Co-lead
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Chak Shahzad,
Islamabad.
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([email protected]), 0346-8544184
Mr. Zulfiquar Rao - WFP
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Strengthening Humanitarian Response for
Availability, Accessibility and Utilization
of Food.
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