WFP Kyrgyz Republic Country Brief, November 2022 – Kyrgyzstan

In Numbers

535.9 mt of meals distributed

US$239,400 cash-based transfers made

US$12 million six-month internet funding necessities (December 2022 – Might 2023)

52,775 individuals assisted

Operational Updates

Speedy response

• WFP, in coordination with the Authorities and UN Nation Staff, continued scaling up the life-saving help to the communities affected by the battle alongside the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in mid-September 2022. WFP offered money help to 7,200 individuals with US$200 per household. Money-based transfers had been disbursed to essentially the most weak individuals from affected communities in Batken and Osh provinces to deal with their fundamental wants of meals and vitamin.

• Moreover, WFP has procured 500 mt of fortified meals for 23,000 individuals, together with whose homes had been destroyed by the battle. The meals will likely be distributed till January 2023 to make sure meals safety of the weak inhabitants throughout winter. WFP and native authorities confirm eligibility of weak households towards the predefined standards, together with the extent of revenue, and quantity family members and minors and individuals with disabilities.

Catastrophe threat discount and local weather change adaptation

• WFP and the Ministry of Emergency Conditions (MES) signed an settlement to ascertain two workshops for gabion internet manufacturing, which will likely be extensively used within the safety of riverbanks and slopes to keep away from soil erosion and property harm as a result of flooding. WFP goals to strengthen capability of the MES by offering tools for the automated manufacturing of gabion nets. The workshops will guarantee four-fold improve in gabion nets manufacturing domestically, permitting the MES to scale back the dangers of disasters and the destructive impacts of local weather variability.

• Following the pre-feasibility research and nationwide consultations, WFP held the primary seminar on the fundamentals of agricultural insurance coverage to introduce revolutionary non-public sector-led catastrophe threat insurance coverage merchandise within the nation. The seminar was attended by nationwide establishments and stakeholders, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Emergency Conditions, its Hydrometeorological Service, and the non-public and public insurance coverage corporations. Because of this, companions agreed to pilot an Index-based livestock insurance coverage product in three districts of Naryn Province and revise related insurance policies in 2023. The product will purpose at serving to rural communities to mitigate climate-related shocks, and bettering their monetary resilience and meals safety.

Faculty meals and wholesome diets

• WFP, in collaboration with its strategic companion for the “Optimizing the nationwide college meals programme”, the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (SIFI), established the Republican Competence Centre (RCC) for coaching of college cooks on the Kyrgyz State Technical College. The RCC goals to enhance the skilled expertise of college cooks and improve high quality and security of college meals. WFP and SIFI additionally supported the Ministry of Training and Science to develop coaching supplies and determine qualification necessities and phrases of reference for varsity cooks. RCC opening ceremony was organized by WFP and visited by donors, authorities companions and media. The ceremony ended with the Finale of the Annual Cooks Contest, to acknowledge their laborious work and lift consciousness. 16 days of activism towards gender-based violence • WFP supported the worldwide marketing campaign “16 days of activism towards gender-based violence” by organizing awarenessraising classes for employees, cooperating companions, and stakeholders. The classes had been designed to sensitize them on WFP’s efforts to eradicate gender-based violence by growing meals safety and making certain equal entry to sources, expertise, alternatives and livelihoods. The classes additionally lined WFP’s coverage on safety from sexual exploitation and abuse in addition to ideas on gender equality and ladies empowerment.

Partnerships

• Following the nationwide consultations on the WFP’s Nation Strategic Plan (CSP) for 2023-2027, WFP within the Kyrgyz Republic Nation Director (CD) and the Minister of Labour,
Social Safety and Migration attended the second common session of the WFP’s Govt Board to current the CSP.
Through the presentation, the Minister highlighted the Authorities’s dedication to help the implementation of the CSP, which is aligned with key nationwide priorities. This consists of establishing a nutrition-centered, shock-responsive, and productive social safety system. The CSP was endorsed by the Board, and the CD and the Minister held conferences with donor representatives to debate potential funding alternatives.

• WFP, with authorities and growth companions (Ministry of Well being, UNICEF, USAID, Mercy corps), have carried out Nationwide Built-in Micronutrient Anthropometric Survey (NIMAS) to evaluate the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies, undernutrition (stunting, losing), chubby and weight problems amongst inhabitants, together with youngsters, adolescent women and girls. NIMAS additionally offered vital insights on the present breastfeeding and meals fortification practices. The outcomes of the survey will likely be utilized by stakeholders to tell insurance policies and programmes within the areas of nutrition-centered social safety, meals techniques, well being, agriculture, and different sectors to enhance vitamin of the inhabitants.