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Saturday 24 November 2012

North Korea food aid


Government was sending mostly regular food, not aid to Pyongyang. Aid wasn't ended, because malversation (although it was present), but because the government threw everybody away, when it felt stronger.
Currently World Food Programme is working under "no access, no food aid" principle, which includes:
  • Household food information. Every four months the WFP would undertake baseline household surveys, interview local officials and others (e.g., farmers, factory officials, etc.), hold focus group discussions, and take observational walks.
  • Distribution monitoring. The WFP would shift at the margin to monitoring distribution centers and food-for-work projects, interview those receiving food aid there, and increase monitoring visits to non-household sites (e.g., county warehouses, factories producing food products with WFP commodities, and institutions receiving food aid).
  • Ration cards. All WFP beneficiaries would be given a WFP-designed and printed ration card that would be checked by the WFP at distributions.
  • Commodity tracking. WFP staff would be allowed to physically follow food aid from the port of entry, to county warehouses, to three to six Public Distribution Centers (PDCs) per county, as well as implement a more uniform and consistent system to track commodities by waybill number, with the ultimate goal of eventually introducing an electronic system that would allow tracking of individual bags from port to final point of delivery.


    You do anthropometric measurements, computerized food intake analysis, nutrition body composition and verifies surveys.
    This is actually novelty in North Korea, before 2009 the government wasn't allowing this before 2009.

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