Annual Country Report 2019: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Annual Country Report 2019: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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Given the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s middle-income country status, WFP shifted its focus with the design and implementation of the new CSP from direct food assistance to indirect assistance through capacity strengthening, technical support, advocacy and communications. WFP strengthened the Vice Ministry of Civil Defence emergency response mechanism through the development and installation of a web application that has reduced the time of the initial emergency response by more than half. This application also collects data from natural indicators provided by local indigenous informants. This linkage of ancestral knowledge with early warning systems enhances local agrometeorological services providing reliable guidance for decision-making. WFP started the implementation of the Gender Transformation Programme, a key strategy through which WFP will achieve its goal of integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into all of its work and activities, to ensure that the different food security and nutrition needs of women, men, girls and boys are addressed. As a strategic partner of the Government, WFP continued to complement the School Feeding Programme in Entre Ríos and promoted local purchases from smallholders' associations. The approach included strengthening of smallholders’ associations to increase their production as well as the school feeding program, improving the planning, the management and the efficient use of municipal resources. Through an innovative approach to address malnutrition problems among the young urban populations, WFP, together with the Ministry of Health have developed a social and behavioural change communications campaign.

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