Annual Country Report 2019: Kyrgyzstan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

English

51 p.

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In 2019, WFP supported 326,000 poor and food-insecure beneficiaries in all 7 provinces in the country through the four strategic outcomes of the CSP 2018-2022 for the Kyrgyz Republic: 1. school feeding, 2. building and improving access to infrastructure and income-generation, 3. climate risk management and disaster risk reduction, and 4. capacity strengthening for Government and partners to ensure the programme’s long-term sustainability and institutionalization. WFP carried out the first Purchase for Progress pilot in the country by directly purchasing wheat from targeted smallholder farmers thereby providing them with additional income-generating opportunities. As one of the year’s most significant achievements, the School Meals Law, prepared by the Ministry of Education and Science with technical support from WFP, was signed by the President, creating conditions for the replication and full implementation of the WFP hot school meals model across the country and ensuring the programme’s long-term sustainability. WFP, with FAO and UNICEF, was involved in the formulation of the Food Security and Nutrition Programme 2018-2023, which strengthens and improves national food security and nutrition management. WFP prioritized gender-sensitivity in project design, implementation and monitoring, and collected and analysed gender and age-disaggregated data. Specifically, as part of its participatory approach, WFP conducted extensive community-level consultations in all target locations, encouraging more women’s involvement in decision-making processes and greater gender equality within local community development. Additionally, WFP offices in the country reached a 50/50 staff gender parity.

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