Annual Country Report 2018: Lao People's Democratic Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021
2018
ELR 1898
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Title
Annual Country Report 2018: Lao People's Democratic Republic. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.
Language Note
English
Description
45 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1898
Summary
In 2018, WFP in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) made great strides in school feeding and nutrition and responded effectively to two emergency flood situations. Long-standing plans progressed well to develop national capacity for handover of WFP school feeding activities to the Government of Lao PDR, including the phased handover of school feeding implementation. WFP supported research and development of fortification in Lao PDR, including the launch of the Food Fortification Strategic Action Plan in May and subsequent establishment of the Task Force Working Group, which WFP co-chairs. Together with the Government, a workplan was established to develop i) Lao standards for food fortification including revision of the Lao Food Law, ii) legislation to enable and enforce fortification including imports from neighbouring countries, and iii) analysis on supply chains of oil and other fortifiable foods. During an unusually heavy rainy season in 2018, Lao PDR suffered two flood emergencies which affected ten percent of the population and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivation, leaving an estimated five percent of households severely food insecure. WFP responded to the floods and focused its response on the evacuation areas to meet the needs of those affected in two provinces, dispatching rice and small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement to the severely food insecure and cash to the moderately food insecure.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1898
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127798
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WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)