Eng - UNDP in Tajikistan

DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
Multilateral
United Nations World Food Programme
Contact: Mr. Zlatan Milisic
Representative/Country Director
Tel: 224-39-50, 221-09-19, 221-09-07 Fax: 251-87-00
E-mail: Wfp.dushanbe@wfp.org
Website: www.wfp.org
Organization Profile
The World Food Program is the frontline United Nations agency mandated to eradicate hunger worldwide.
The United Nations General Assembly acted in 1961 to establish the World Food Program. WFP began its mission of eradicating hunger in
January 1963 with the opening of its HQ in Rome. Today, with more than 4,000 staff members operating in 82 countries, WFP is the largest
international food aid organization in the world.
WFP fights hunger primarily in two ways. In disasters, it provides emergency food aid and where people are chronically hungry, WFP
provides food-for-work, food for health and food for education assistance, helping people to become self-reliant. Every day, WFP emergency
response teams rush supplies to millions of the victims strife and disasters, be it war, ethnic conflict, political strife, flood, drought or crop
failure. Such crises consume most of WFP's resources.
All contributions to WFP are voluntary. They come from donor nations, non-governmental organizations, corporations and individuals.
WFP Tajikistan is the largest international agency in the country with the capacity to undertake programs in all regions through its four field
offices and through the Country Office in the capital.
Past and Current Programmes
Fom 1993 until 1999 WFP distributed some 116,623 Mt of humanitarian food aid to Tajikistan amounting to some 60.6 million US dollars.
Food commodities were distributed to more than one million beneficiaries in each of the years.
From July 1999 to July 2001, WFP implemented the first of its Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO 6087: “Food assistance to
vulnerable groups and recovery activities”), rendering assistance to more than half a million people through its Vulnerable Group Feeding
(VGF) and Food for Work scheme.
In reply to the country’s president's address to the international community requesting assistance to drought-affected people of Tajikistan,
WFP in 2000, initiated its Emergency Operation (EMOP 6288: “Emergency food assistance to victims of Crop Failure and Drought”)
intended to assist 1.2 million people in rural areas through Vulnerable Group Feeding and Food For Asset Rehabilitation with the purpose of
rehabilitating agricultural infrastructure.
Overall, from 1993 to 2008, WFP distributed over 650,000 MT of food distributed to several million people at a value of over USD 200
million.
Currently WFP implements its activities though PRRO 10603.0 ‘Transitional Relief and Recovery Support to Food-Insecure Households’,
which was launched in July 2007 and planned to be over by 30 June 2009. It aims to assist 590,800 beneficiaries with 37,696 MT of food, at a
cost of USD 22.8 million. The project aims at providing food assistance to the most food insecure households in marginalized geographic
areas and implementing recovery activities that promote food security and self-sustainability.
The overall goal of the WFP intervention in Tajikistan is to improve household food security, preserve/rehabilitate assets, increase food
production and promote investment in human capital. This has been accomplished through a combination of continued relief assistance for
vulnerable groups, and the implementation of recovery activities, such as, Food-for-Work, Food-for-Training, Food For Education
programme and health and nutrition activities. The PRRO attributes to the Millennium Development Goals 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Future Programming Direction
WFP's New Project, PRRO 10603.0, which has been started in July 2007 and will be run for two years from July 2007 to June 2009, is
focused more on recovery than relief activities and represents a gradual phase-down of WFP activities in Tajikistan. This gradual phase down
is expected to be followed by handing over of the key WFP activities to the Government of Tajikistan for their continued management and
implementation and the departure of WFP from Tajikistan. WFP is currently discussing with relevant government ministries whether it should
have a follow up development project after the current PRRO 10603 is finished in June 2009, or if it should close its operations in the country.
Source: Aid Coordination and Project Monitoring System Database
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