WFP Bhutan Country Brief, November 2022 – Bhutan

Highlights

Officers from the Korea Worldwide Cooperation Company (KOICA) Bangladesh visited Bhutan for a monitoring mission. The KOICA officers and WFP visited faculties and farmers teams in Zhemgang and Trongsa districts the place KOICA-supported actions are applied.

WFP, in partnership with the Division of Catastrophe Administration (DDM) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), facilitated a number of workshops and trainings on catastrophe preparedness, provide chain, geoinformation methods (GIS) and incident command methods (ICS).

Operational Replace

• A KOICA Bangladesh staff led by the Nation Director visited Bhutan on 06 to 10 November for a mission monitoring mission. The United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator, Ms Karla Hershey, and a WFP staff led by the Nation Director joined the mission. The mission met with district officers, visited girls smallholder farmers teams and noticed the preparation of faculty meals at central faculties in Zhemgang and Trongsa districts. With assist from KOICA and WFP, the Ministry of Schooling implements the mission ‘Consolidating a totally built-in common Nationwide College Vitamin Programme in Bhutan’.

• WFP supported MoAF to ship two regional workshops on humanitarian provide chain and logistics administration. The workshops have been carried out in Punakha and Trashigang districts from 07 to 18 November, with the participation of 60 officers from 13 districts within the central and japanese areas who’re the focal factors for emergency logistics response. The consultations compiled logistics capability info on regionally accessible property in every district to develop consolidated district-level logistics preparedness motion plans.

• WFP delivered two studying periods for twenty-four individuals, comprising UN officers and members of the Nationwide Logistics Preparedness Working Group, to introduce the idea of humanitarian provide chains throughout emergencies by means of a board sport referred to as ‘Enterprise on the transfer – humanitarian version’.

• WFP, in partnership with DDM, carried out a week-long sensitization programme on catastrophe threat administration, ICS coaching and a tabletop simulation train in Sarpang District for 168 individuals. The programme aimed to construct the catastrophe preparedness and response capability of district administration officers, regional officers, newly elected native authorities leaders, and representatives from the De-Suung (nationwide service volunteers) and Bhutan Pink Cross Society.

• WFP and DDM organized a GIS digitization workshop in Pemagatshel District from 21 to 25 November for 22 officers representing key companies. A free spatial information repository ‘Open Road Mapping’ was used for information assortment. The info, totally on essential infrastructure, can be utilized for research and evaluation, together with catastrophe preparedness and response.

• WFP offered the outcomes of its vitamin social behaviour change (SBC) analysis to SBC Taskforce members for validation on 25 and 26 November. The Taskforce includes representatives from the Ministry of Well being, the Ministry of Schooling and MoAF, in addition to the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) and WFP. The analysis will inform the event of an motion plan to implement SBC actions in 2023.