Nearly half the world¡¯s undernourished population lives in Asia and the Pacific. By the end of 2023, 78 million people in the region faced acute food insecurity.
This report highlights Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s achievements in addressing hunger and malnutrition across Asia and the Pacific in 2024, amid rising food insecurity, climate-related shocks and stressors and funding gaps.
Annual Country Reports (ACR) are a key accountability document produced by country offices on a yearly basis which inform donors how their funds were used during the reporting year. Their purpose is to tell Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s performance story in an accurate, transparent and evidence-based manner by assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of our operations in our pursuit towards zero hunger.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Social Protection Implementation Plan for the Asia and the Pacific region outlines a vision for Â鶹ÊÓƵ's support to national systems from 2024 to 2028.
This document provides an overview of social protection information systems across Asia and the Pacific, highlighting opportunities for strengthening and innovation to improve data management, coverage, and programme efficiency in addressing vulnerabilities
This report reflects on Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s achievements in countering hunger and malnutrition across Asia and the Pacific in 2023, against a multitude of hardships.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ supported the development of a national social behaviour change strategy and action plan to address specific drivers and barriers to healthy eating with targeted policy and programmatic tools and campaigns
Using a resilient food system and a demand-led agriculture value chain approach, Â鶹ÊÓƵ aims to support Bhutan¡¯s national pathways for food systems development in key areas to expand investments and capacities in resilient food systems, integrating nutrition considerations into social protection programmes such as school feeding, and strengthening systems for emergency preparedness and response.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡®s country strategic plan (2024-2028) is anchored in Bhutan¡®s draft 13th Five-Year Plan (2024-2029), and guided by the priorities ofthe United Nation¡®s Sustainable Development Framework (2024-2028).
To develop stronger national resilience to disasters and the climate crisis, Â鶹ÊÓƵ supports the Royal Government of Bhutan¡¯s emergency preparedness and response initiatives in governance and coordination, data preparedness, logistics, emergency telecommunications, and food and nutrition security.
In Bhutan, Â鶹ÊÓƵ partners with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) to create an enabling environment for healthier school nutrition and improved nutritional status for Bhutanese schoolchildren.
By empowering national responders and promoting collaboration and partnerships among stakeholders in Bhutan to address potential logistics constraints, Â鶹ÊÓƵ aims for effective humanitarian assistance during disasters.
In Asia and the Pacific Region, Â鶹ÊÓƵ provides a wide range of strategic and technical support and capacity strengthening services across 17 countries, with a view to improving the coverage, comprehensiveness, adequacy, quality and responsiveness of national social protection systems. This brief provides a snapshot of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's social protection work in the region with an overview of the engagements at the country level
To develop stronger national resilience to disasters and the climate crisis, Â鶹ÊÓƵ supports the Royal Government of Bhutan¡¯s emergency preparedness and response (EPR) initiatives in five areas of governance and coordination, data preparedness, logistics, emergency telecommunications, and food security.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, through its Country Strategic Plan (2019-2023), focuses on supporting government in enhancing food security and nutrition, and a transformative food systems that is carbon-neutral and economically viable. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s assistance is implemented through various programmes and activities to increase demand for locally available nutritious foods while supporting the government in strengthening production capacity, post-harvest management, marketing, knowledge management, cost efficiency, and coordination and policy.
The Bhutan Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan (2020¨C2025) seeks to improve the nutritional status of schoolchildren and adolescents, including those in monastic institutions, through improved nutrition knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. Based on behavioural research into food and snack consumption, a comprehensive Social Behaviour Change (SBC) Strategy and Action Plan was developed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ with government partners, including the Ministry Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL). The SBC strategy contains both in and out-of-school SBC activities, campaigns, and materials
