BUDGET REVISION 05 PROTRACTED RELIEF AND RECOVERY OPERATION (PRRO) 200540 Targeted Food Assistance to Victims of Armed Conflicts and other Vulnerable Groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Start date: 31.07.2013 End date: 31.12.2015 Extension/Reduction period: N/A New end date: N/A Total revised number of beneficiaries 3 589 600 Duration of entire project July 2013 December 2015 Extension/Reduction period n/a Gender marker code 1 Total revised WFP food tonnage 200 205 Cost (United States dollars) Current Budget Decrease Revised Budget Food and Related Costs 268 155 483 (10 839 712) 257 315 771 Cash and Vouchers and Related Costs 45 617 478 (3 158 788) 42 458 690 Capacity Development & Augmentation 2 730 000-2 730 000 DSC 71 236 483 (3 434 966) 67 801 517 ISC 27 141 761 (1 220 343) 25 921 419 Total cost to WFP 414 881 205 (18 653 808) 396 227 397 NATURE OF THE DECREASE 1 This budget revision (BR) 05 to Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200540 is required to align the food and cash & voucher (C&V) requirements, related transport costs, and other direct operational costs (ODOC) with the revisions to the current operation, for the period from 1 January 2015 until project closure in December 2015. Primarily, this BR will reduce the needs associated with assistance to refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) hosted in Equateur Province of DRC, who are now assisted under the Regional EMOP 200799, approved in January 2015. 2 Consequently, this revision will: Decrease food transfer costs by US$ 5,525,623; Decrease external transport costs by US$ 924,324; Decrease landside transport, storage and handling (LTSH) costs by US$ $3,943,332; Decrease ODOC related to food transfers by US$ 446,432; Decrease C&V and related costs by US$ 3,158,788; Decrease direct support costs (DSC) by US$ 3,434,966; and Decrease indirect support costs (ISC) by US$1,220,343. 3 Overall, the PRRO budget will be reduced from US$ 414,881,205 to US$ 396,227,397, resulting in a net decrease of US$ 18,653,808.
JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET DECREASE Summary of Existing Project Activities 4 In June 2013, the WFP Executive Board approved PRRO 200540, covering a 30 month timeframe from July 2013 until December 2015 to provide targeted food assistance to victims of armed conflict and other vulnerable groups in the DRC. PRRO 200540 contributes to WFP Strategic Objectives 1 and 2. 1 5 The operation aimed to: (i) provide life-saving food assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in crisis-affected areas; (ii) reduce the prevalence of acute malnutrition through nutrition support for children aged from 6-59 months and to pregnant and lactating women (PLW), and provide nutritional support to people living with HIV (PLHIV), tuberculosis (TB) and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) and enhance adherence to treatment; (iii) facilitate access to markets and education, and provide nutrition services for returnees, refugees and food-insecure communities to support early recovery; (iv) increase the resilience of severely food-insecure communities against further shocks; and (v) enhance national capacities to design and manage food and nutrition programmes and disaster preparedness activities. 6 BR04 to this PRRO (approved in April 2014), reduced the geographical scope of the PRRO following a prioritization exercise conducted in March 2014. In line with WFP s revised priorities in the country, this resulted in a focus on addressing the acute needs of conflictaffected populations in eastern DRC (including Katanga, North and South Kivu, and Orientale Provinces) and CAR refugees in Equateur Province in the west. 7 BR05 will continue to prioritize life-saving interventions through General Food Distribution (GFD) (using food, or cash or vouchers on the basis of a better understanding of context through the Omega tool and multi-sectorial assessments) in North Kivu, South Kivu, Katanga and Orientale Provinces. The interventions will target internally displaced persons (IDPs), vulnerable households in communities hosting IDPs, and refugees from Rwanda and Burundi (hosted in North and South Kivu). The PRRO will also address the recommendations of the 2014 Country Portfolio Evaluation (CPE) 2, in both the existing project and in the design of the successor PRRO (2016-2017). The Country Strategy (2013) is being reviewed according to changes in context and will also feed into the design of the successor PRRO. 8 Targeted supplementary feeding interventions for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) will continue to target conflict affected areas where global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates are >10 percent, while blanket supplementary feeding for the prevention of acute malnutrition will be implemented where GAM rates are >15 percent. Target groups will be children 6-59 months (for treatment) or 6-23 months (for prevention) and PLW (for treatment and prevention). While this BR has reduced the nutrition beneficiaries now included in EMOP 200799, the number of children targeted under this BR will increase by about 16,000 in 1 WFP SO 1: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies. WFP SO 2: Support food security and nutrition and (re)build livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies. 2 The CPE issued eight recommendations: develop a preparedness plan for emergency interventions; increase alternative food assistance modalities; enhance the capacities to facilitate the achievement of WFP s strategic objectives in DRC; transition to a country programme and a nutrition development programme; review the school feeding programme; improve the quality, use and cost-effectiveness of performance monitoring; strengthen inter-agency logistics management; develop a strategy to enhance local purchases; better integrate cross-cutting issues into programming.
Katanga Province, due to the wider coverage of nutritional programmes in the death triangle, and stronger partnerships with PRONANUT, UNICEF and NGO partners. Consequently, there will be a slight increase in tonnages of ready to use supplementary food (RUSF). In line with national nutritional protocol, this BR will also include the addition of sugar in the food basket for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition for PLW, as WFP received a significant inkind contribution of Super Cereal without sugar in early 2015. Nutritional support to malnourished people living with HIV and tuberculosis while receiving treatment will also continue in conflict-affected areas in line with the inter-agency standing committee (IASC) guidelines. 3 Prevention of chronic malnutrition (stunting) will target a specific area in South Kivu. 9 Food assistance for assets (FFA) interventions will continue to target food insecure people returning to their areas of origin, and the communities of return. Refugees from CAR in the camps of Equateur Province are now supported under EMOP 200799, and this BR will also move FFA beneficiaries located in host communities around these camps to the EMOP. Multisectorial projects in North Kivu and Katanga in partnership with UN agencies will be enhanced. FFA activities are primarily related to land and infrastructure rehabilitation in areas undergoing a stabilization process, including in MONUSCO and the government s STAREC Islands of Stability. 4 10 Numbers of children receiving school feeding has also decreased, as the activity was taking place in the Equateur camps for CAR refugees. For the duration of this operation, emergency school feeding will continue to target areas of displacement in addition to areas of return. Synergies with UNICEF s emergency education programme will be strengthened. A pilot for the provision of micro-nutrient powders (MNP) in South Kivu will not take place in 2015 due to the lack of human resources needed to monitor the pilot. MNPs have therefore been removed from the overall commodity requirement. Conclusion and Recommendations of the Re-Assessment 11 2013 saw the escalation of instability in neighbouring CAR, following a March coup d'état in Bangui. In December 2013, a mass wave of violence broke out in the capital, followed by the resignation of the president and his cabinet in January 2014. An estimated 640,000 people were subsequently displaced in the country. The UN declared the CAR crisis a system-wide Level 3 emergency; a designation that has since been extended until May 2015. 12 In November 2014, WFP initiated a regional emergency operation to respond to the food assistance needs of CAR refugees and IDPs. In response to the needs, regional EMOP 200799, (including five countries) 5 was implemented as of January 2015. 13 In DRC, CAR refugees are settled in the Gbadolite, Zongo, and Libenge territories of Equateur province and the Bondo territory of Oriental province (Mbote). Prior to January 2015, WFP was providing food assistance to CAR refugees in these camps through this PRRO. As the CAR refugees will now be assisted through EMOP 200799, this BR will remove this refugee caseload from PRRO 200540. 3 2010, Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings. 4 A national workshop organized by MONUSCO in March 2015 will determine the overall strategy to be adopted in the islands of stability, following conflict analysis undertaken since October 2014 in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale Provinces. 5 The five countries included in the Regional EMOP are Republic of Congo, DRC, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad.
Purpose of Budget Decrease 14 This BR reflects the reduced geographical scope of the PRRO following the approval of regional EMOP 200799, which consolidates the food needs of CAR refugees in all five countries hosting the displaced populations. 15 The prioritization strategy included under BR04 to the PRRO will not change in 2015; this operation will continue to focus on areas affected by conflict in the Eastern part of the country and in line with the 2015 Humanitarian Action Plan which estimated that some 5.73 million people are in need of food assistance as a result of the ongoing instability in DRC. Of these, 2.49 million are targeted by WFP (1.5 million people through food assistance 6, the remainder through agricultural support). 16 The 12 th Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) cycle for the period January-June 2015 estimated that 6.5 million people in DRC are affected by food and livelihood crises (phases 3 and 4 of the IPC). The areas in phase 4 (emergency) are in the provinces of Orientale (Irumu territory), South Kivu (Shabunda territory), Maniema 7 (Punia), Katanga (Pweto, Mitwaba Malemba Nkulu, Kabalo and Nyunzu territories) and Equateur (Boende territory, which experienced an Ebola outbreak in middle-late 2014 8 ). The primary cause of food and livelihood insecurity is armed conflict, including inter-ethnic conflict in Katanga Province. 17 It is expected that operations by the DRC military forces, supported by MONUSCO in the east, will continue to create the displacement of populations. However, MONUSCO, with the government through the stabilization programme (STAREC), are implementing programmes in areas of return (islands of stability), which also offer an opportunity for UN agencies to intervene through resilience-building approaches. 6 The HAP 2015 has identified four crises: Conflict, Epidemics, Nutritional and Natural Disasters. The HAP establishes the following target groups for food assistance: IDPs, returnees, refugees, people affected by natural disasters, people affected by epidemics (Ebola, measles, cholera). Nutrition activities under this PRRO are aligned with the HAP in conflict-affected areas only. 7 WFP stopped operations in Maniema in July 2014 following the prioritization exercise, and the office was closed; in 2015, if resources are available, WFP may intervene on ad-hoc basis, especially in the context of the nutritional crisis. 8 WFP assisted some 30,000 people affected by the Ebola crisis in Equateur, Boende territory in 2014, until the crisis was declared over in November 2014. No additional interventions are foreseen in 2015.
TABLE 1: BENEFICIARIES BY ACTIVITY Activity Category of beneficiaries Current Decrease/Increase Revised GFD 1 Treatment of acute malnutrition IDPs, refugees, victims of SGBV, demobilized child soldiers Boys / Men Girls / Women Total Boys / Men Girls / Women Total Boys / Men Girls / Women Total 1 323 049 1 377 051 2 700 100 (23 077) (26 023) (49 100) 1 297 026 1 353 974 2 651 000 Children aged 6-23 months 35 838 35 838 71 676 2 737 2 737 5 474 38 575 38 575 77 150 Prevention of acute malnutrition Support to therapeutic feeding for acute malnutrition Children aged 24-59 months 70 415 70 415 140 830 5 313 5 313 10 626 75 728 75 728 151 456 Pregnant and lactating women Children aged 6-23 months Pregnant and lactating women 34 800 207 400 207 400 (3 800) (3 800) 203 600 203 600 34 800 69 600 34 800 34 800 69 600 71 800 71 800 71 800 71 800 Caretakers 1 380 12 420 13 800 (30) (270) ( 300) 1 350 12 150 13 500 Prevention of Pregnant and lactating 500 1 000 500 500 1 000 chronic women 500 malnutrition Children aged 6-23 months 1 000 1 000 1 000 1 000 FFA FFT Returnees, VSGBV 452 075 302 925 755 000 (6 070) (3 130) ( 9 200) 446 005 299 795 745 800 School feeding school Children 228 933 238 277 467 210 (2 793) (2,907) (5 700) 226 140 235 370 461 510 Nutrition support (ART and TB treatment ) HIV/TB clients 25 069 77 050 102 119 (312) (988) (1 300) 24 757 76 062 100 819 Total 2,172,059 2,429,476 4,601,535 (40 332) (29 068) (53 300) 2 144 881 2 403,354 4 548 235 Total excluding overlap 2 3 632 200 ( 42 600) 3 589 600 1 Of the revised beneficiaries, 667,400 will receive cash and vouchers throughout the project life; of these, 238,830 are planned for 2015. Of these 22,146 will receive CFA and 210, 684 will receive GFD. The CFA ration, in line with the FFA ration, is for 22 days ; the ration for GFD through food 2 The overlap between beneficiaries was calculated as follows: school feeding, FFA - 30% overlap with GFD; nutrition - 26% overlap with GFD; 25% overlap from one year to the next. For school feeding, the CO are considering the maximum number of beneficiaries since BR04.
TABLE 2 : FOOD RATION/TRANSFER BY ACTIVITY (g/person/day) GFD Full ration Transit ration refugees TSF Prevention of acute malnutrition BSFP NUTRITION Prevention of chronic malnutrition BSFP CARE- TAKERS PLHIV / TB FFA SCHOOL FEEDING 6-59 months PLW 6-23 months PLW 6-23 months PLW Cereal 400 400 400 400 120 Pulses 120 120 120 120 30 Veg. oil 30 30 25 25 25 30 25 30 10 Salt 5 5 5 5 5 Super Cereal with sugar 250 250 250 250 Super Cereal 250 250 250 Sugar 20 20 20 HEB 3 333 Plumpy Sup 92 Plumpy Doz 47 47 Cash/voucher (US$/person/da y) 0.64 0.64 TOTAL 555 555 92 275 47 47 275 275 555 275 555 165 Total kcal/day 2132 2132 500 1175 247 247 1175 1175 2132 1175 2132 628 percent kcal 16 16 10.2 13.2 10 10 13.2 13.2 16 13.2 16 10 from protein 4 3 High Energy Biscuits are not part of the GFD; they are used in the first three days after displacement. 4 A GFD ration should provide a basket of food commodities that covers the recommended mean daily per capita nutrient intake (WHO, 1995). The GFD ration should therefore provide 10 to 12 percent of its Kcal (energy) from protein and at least 17 percent from fat (Food and Nutrition Handbook. Page 65, table 8.1).
percent kcal from fat 11 11 55 35 58 58 35 35 11 35 11 18 Number of feeding days per year or per month (as applicable) HEB is for 3 days 90 7 60 270 120 180 180 180 7 180 HIV 240 TB 22 22
FOOD REQUIREMENTS 18 Overall, this budget revision entails a net overall decrease in food requirements for all activities amounting to 8,662 metric tons and overall reduction in cash and voucher transfers of US$ 2,747,250. TABLE 3: FOOD/CASH AND VOUCHER REQUIREMENTS BY ACTIVITY Activity GFD Treatment of acute malnutrition Prevention of acute malnutrition Support to therapeutic feeding Prevention of chronic malnutrition FFA/FFT Food requirements (mt) C&V (US$) Commodity/ Cash & voucher Current Decrease Revised Total Commodity 120 890 (6 250) 114 640 C&V 2 416 045 241 6045 Commodity 7 233 (209) 7 024 Commodity 4 878 (80) 4 798 Commodity 54 (14) 40 Commodity 46 0 46.00 Commodity 24 331 (1 838) 22 493 C&V 15 635 656 (2 747 250) 12 888 406 School feeding Commodity 45 932 (207) 45 725 Nutrition Support (ART and TB treatment) Commodity 5 503 (64) 5 439 TOTAL (US$) C&V 40 045 701 (2 747 250) 37 298 451 TOTAL (mt) COMMODITY 208 867 (8 662) 200 205 Haz ard / Risk Asse ssm ent and Pre pare dnes s Plan ning 19 A s ibed in the original project document, risks associated with this PRRO continue to be related to continuous conflict, pipeline breaks and shortfalls, and security conditions which hamper access to vulnerable populations. The CO is compliant with the Emergency Preparedness and Response Package in line with the WFP Directive OM 2014/003. d e s c r
RECOMMENDATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Approved by: Ertharin Cousin Executive Director, WFP Date:..
ANNEX I-A PROJECT COST BREAKDOWN Quantity (mt) Value (US$) Value (US$) Food Transfers - - Cereals (6 020) (3 403 002) Pulses (1 111) (634 567) Oil and fats (704) (950 846) Mixed and blended food (571) (523 196) Others (256) (14 013) Total Food Transfers (8 662) (5 525 623) (924 324) External Transport LTSH (3 943 332) ODOC Food (446 432) Food and Related Costs (10 839 712) C&V Transfers (2 747 250) C&V Related costs (411 538) Cash and Vouchers and Related Costs (3 158 788) Capacity Development & Augmentation Direct Operational Costs (13 998 500) Direct support costs (see Annex I-B) (3 434 966) Total Direct Project Costs (17 433 465) Indirect support costs (7,0 percent) (1 220 343) TOTAL WFP COSTS (18 653 808)
ANNEX I-B DIRECT SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS (US$) WFP Staff and Staff-Related Professional staff * (1 929 978) General service staff ** (749 413) Danger pay and local allowances - Subtotal (2 679 391) Recurring and Other Capital Equipment Security Travel and transportation (297 519) (74 107) (51 458) (332 492) Assessments, Evaluations and Monitoring 1 TOTAL DIRECT SUPPORT COSTS (3 434 966) * Costs to be included in this line are under the following cost elements: International Professional Staff (P1 to D2), Local Staff - National Officer, International Consultants, Local Consultants, UNV ** Costs to be included in this line are under the following cost elements: International GS Staff, Local Staff - General Service, Local Staff - Temporary Assist. (SC, SSA, Other), Overtime 1 Reflects estimated costs when these activities are performed by third parties. If WFP Country Office staff perform these activities, the costs are included in Staff and Staff Related and Travel and Transportation.
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ACRONYMS USED IN THE DOCUMENT CAR DRC DSC EMOP FAO GAM GFD EMOP HAP IDP ISC LTSH MAM MONUSCO ODOC PLHIV PLW PRRO SO STAREC TB UN UNHCR UNICEF Central African Republic Democratic Republic of Congo Direct support costs Emergency operation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Global acute malnutrition General food distribution Emergency operation Humanitarian Action Plan Internally displaced person Indirect support costs Landside transport, storage and handling Moderate acute malnutrition Mission de l Organisation des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Republic Democratique du Congo Other direct operational costs People living with HIV/AIDS Pregnant and lactating women Protracted relief and recovery operation Strategic Objective Programme de Stabilisation et Reconstruction de zones sortants de conflict armes Tuberculosis United Nations United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund 13