WFP -Leste In Numbers Country Brief 1.3 mt of ready-to-use supplementary food February 2019 distributed to 532 girls and boys under five

7.7 mt of Super Cereal distributed to 1,796 pregnant and nursing women

14 nutrition education sessions organised in five municipalities, reaching 960 community members

US$ 2.08 m six months (March - August 2019) net funding requirements 89% 11% 2,328 people assisted in February 2019

Operational Context Operational Updates

Timor-Leste is one of the world’s newest countries, being  Thanks to the coordination efforts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MoFA) a meeting was organized on internationally recognized as an independent state in 2002. 26 February with representatives from key line Ministries to Poverty rates have dropped from 49.9 percent in 2007 to discuss the upcoming signature of the Letter of 41.8 percent in 2014 according to the World Bank. Understanding (LoU) between MoFA and WFP for the CSP

According to the first Integrated Food Security Phase implementation. Classification (IPC) Analysis Report released in January  The results of a joint Ministry of Health-WFP Social 2019, approximately 430,000 people (36 percent) are Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) partner mapping

chronically food insecure, out of which 15 percent is survey questionnaire are being consolidated to identify who experiencing severe chronic food insecurity (IPC Level 4). is working in which SBCC intervention. The major contributing factors are low agricultural  WFP and Australian programme TOMAK are developing productivity, poor quality and quantity of food communication materials including a series of posters for consumption, and low value livelihood strategies combined adolescents and a special edition on Adolescents on Lafaek with high dependency on single livelihoods. Magazine (from CARE International), a magazine widely WFP has been present in Timor-Leste since 1999. WFP’s distributed across all municipalities. Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2018-2020) supports  A partnership agreement was signed between attainment of the national Government’s vision and Development Agency (ETDA) and WFP to work together contributes to its Strategic Development Plan 2011–2030. towards improvement of the nutrition situation in Timor- Leste through the promotion of diverse diet with locally available foods, among other activities.

 Fourteen cooking demonstrations and nutrition education sessions were organized across communities in Bobonaro, Covalima, Dili, Ermera and by WFP field staff, in collaboration with Ministry of Health personnel, reaching 960 participants, 30 percent of which were men and boys.

 Thirteen nutrition education sessions were organized in schools in five municipalities, reaching 543 students (255 boys, 288 girls) aged 11 to 18 years.

 WFP completed the inception phase of the Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis with briefings for donors and development partners and Government on the concept of FNG analysis 2018 Human Development Index: 132 Population: 1.2 million and taking steps towards the formation of a Technical out of 188 Working Group to guide the process. WFP also advocated for funds, urgently needed to support the FNG analysis. Chronic malnutrition: 50% of children Income Level: Lower middle between 6-59 months  WFP provided technical support to the Ministry of Education School Feeding Focal Point to complete the School Meals Programme Global Survey through the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF). Contact info: Laura Ballester Nieto ([email protected]) Country Director: Dageng Liu  WFP donated 50 industrial plastic pallets to Timor-Leste’s Further information: www1.wfp.org/countries/timor-leste Medical and Pharmaceutical Supply Agency (SAMES) to support optimization of its central warehouse in Dili.

WFP Country Strategy  WFP met with disability organization Raes Hadomi Timor

Country Strategic Plan (2018-2020) Oan (RHTO) to understand about each other’s organization and strengthen WFP’s positioning on its Mar-Aug Total Requirement Allocated work with people with disabilities. Net Funding (in USD) Contributions (in USD) Requirements (in USD)  WFP is co-leading, with UNICEF and the Resident 16.97 m 2.21 m 2.08 m Coordinator’s Office (RCO), the evaluation of current UN

Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2015-2020. Strategic Result 2: No one suffers from malnutrition The first in-country mission took place the last week of February, with the report including preliminary findings Strategic Outcome 1: Children under five, adolescent girls and pregnant expected for March. A second in-country mission is and lactating women have improved nutrition towards national targets by 2025 planned for mid-April. Focus area: Root Causes Monitoring Activities: 1. Provide nutritious food and raise awareness through social and  WFP conducted a joint monitoring with the District Public behaviour change communication for targeted individuals. Health Officer (DPHO) from Municipality during 2. Provide the Government and partners with technical assistance and evidence for enhancing the efficiency of national a SISCa activity in Cribas, to observe registration and programmes and safety nets. identification of pregnant and lactating women who met the criteria for the targeted supplementary feeding Strategic Result 5: Developing countries have strengthened capacity to program (TSFP), as well as nutrition and health implement the SDGs promotion sessions. Strategic Outcome 2: National and subnational government institutions have increased capacity sustainably to deliver food-, nutrition- and supply  The Health Facility monitoring questionnaire has been chain related services by 2020. officially published in the new tool for monitoring, the Focus area: Resilience Mobile Data Collection and Analytics (MDCA), to re-start

Activities: data collection by WFP field monitors posted in 5 3. Provide the Government and partners with technical expertise municipalities. for improved targeting, monitoring and programme analysis. 4. Provide the Government and partners with technical expertise Highlight of the Month for the development of an efficient and effective supply chain management system.

Challenges

 Underfunding of the CSP, particularly Strategic Outcome 1, is strongly affecting project implementation and challenging the consolidation of previous gains.

 Current stock of Super Cereal is expected to meet the requirements until early April 2019. WFP is procuring an additional 38MT of Super Cereal which will cover requirements until early September 2019, with contributions from Timor-Leste and Canada. Boys and girls under five will not receive their supplementary food H.E. Minister Social Solidarity and Inclusion (third from the left) (RUSF) starting March due to a pipeline break. with MSSI’s Director Generals (two on the right) with representatives from WFP Timor-Leste.  The commencement of an acceptability trial on rice fortification in selected schools located in WFP met with H.E. Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, and the roll-out of the Systematic Approach for Better Ms. Armanda Berta dos Santos, on 14th February to discuss

Education Result (SABER) exercise for the School Feeding potential areas of support and engagement around social protection, including strengthening beneficiary targeting of Programme are waiting for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education, Bolsa da Mae and data management and registration. Youth and Sports. It was also discussed the need to formalize the partnership between WFP and Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion through a Memorandum of Understanding and agreed to have subsequent meetings at the technical level to put

together a Concept Note on areas of support.

Donors WFP Timor-Leste Country Brief February 2019 Government of Timor-Leste, SRAC/Multilateral Contributions, Private Donors