Annual Country Report 2021: Pacific Islands. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

English

32 p.

ELR1736

In 2021 WFP strove for continuous engagement with communities, national governments, and government-led clusters across the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) to strengthen their emergency preparedness and response capacities. As part of overall capacity strengthening efforts, WFP provided eight remote trainings and workshops throughout the Pacific, including key informant interview enumerator trainings for Fiji’s COVID-19 food security assessments and trainings on information management and data analytics for national food security clusters and national disaster management offices. Data collection and analysis are the cornerstones for governments to be able to formulate policy and programming. Accordingly, WFP worked closely with national counterparts to define and collect data on which to base policies. WFP conducted the first subnational mobile vulnerability analysis and mapping (mVAM) survey in the Pacific, reaching over 1,800 households in COVID-19 containment zones. The passenger and cargo transport services provided by the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service have been invaluable during interruption of commercial options. In 2021, the air service conducted 21 flights, transporting 1,037 cubic metres of medical and relief cargo and 59 passengers including technical experts and repatriations. The transit warehouse in Nadi, Fiji, established to support the air service, stored 291 cubic metres of cargo on behalf of four United Nations (UN) and government partners in 2021. In addition, 16 partners from the UN, NGOs, the governments and donors actively used the Pacific Logistics Mapping (PALM) Tool, which provides a coordinated snapshot of the availability of relief stocks in the Pacific.

Electronic ed.

ELR 1736

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