Since 1998, WFP has supported more than 20 million food-insecure Indonesians, primarily in the aftermath of natural disasters and economic shocks.
Under the current Protracted Relief and Rehabilitation Operation (PRRO), which ends in December 2011, WFP addresses micronutrient deficiencies through fortified food intervention targeting children aged 12-59 months, pregnant and breast-feeding women and primary school children. School activities include hand-washing campaigns, dietary diversity awareness, school gardens and de-worming. The operation is focused on rural and suburban areas of NTT, NTB, East Java and Greater Jakarta.
WFP supports the Government’s commitment to achieving food and nutrition security for all Indonesians. The three objectives are to enhance Indonesia’s capacities in -
• Monitoring, analyzing, mapping and addressing food insecurity
• Disaster preparedness and response in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action
• Reducing under-nutrition to below critical levels
Over the four years of WFP Indonesia’s Country Programme, WFP’s direct food assistance will reach 417,000 beneficiaries with specific activities designed to –
• Enhance national capacity to identify areas of food security and prioritising nutrition interventions, and periodically monitor the situation with a view to evidence-based planning, targeting and implementation
• Reinforce provincial capacities to implement strategic priorities by prototyping provincial FSVAs and nutrition maps and by implementing food and nutrition security surveillance (FNSS) with a view to early warning and timely planning
• Improve the knowledge base to enhance advocacy and response
• Enhance national disaster-management institutions and systems such as the logistics and emergency telecommunications capacities of the National Disaster Management Agency, as well as the food security assessment capacity of the Food Security Agency
• Reinforce provincial disaster preparedness and response institutions and systems
• Contribute to increasing resilience to the impact of climate change and enhancing vulnerable famers’ capacity to cope through food for assets projects.
• Under mother-and-child health and nutrition (MCHN), WFP will pilot innovative interventions and partnership to prevent and address stunting. The focus will be on children under two and pregnant and breast-feeding women.
• Support the scaling up of evidence-based, cost-effective interventions to prevent and treat under-nutrition, prioritizing the 1000 days from the womb to 2 years of age, where possible through government programmes and the private sector.