This he said while talking to the delegation of WFP Executive Director Executive Director in Pakistan David M. Beasley.
His delegation members were Regional Director Bangkok, David Kaatrud, Country Director Finbarr Curran, Deputy Country Director Katrien Ghoos, MNA Ms. Marvi Memon and other notables.
The CM Sindh was assisted by Minister P&D Saeed Ghani, Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem and Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput.
The CM Sindh said that the WFP has a long history of providing humanitarian and development assistance to the Sindh, working closely with government concerned departments, UN agencies and local International NGO partners to respond the emergencies food security and livelihoods needs identified in the province.
He added that these include the emergency response activities during the largescale floods of 2010, 2011 and 2012 along with livelihood recovery activities through the Food Assistance for Assets using cash as a modality.
Murad Ali Shah said that as part of its new three-year of operations which began in January 2016, the WFP support the implementation of Food Assistance for Assets (using cash or food as modalities), Nutrition (Community Management of Acute Malnutrition and Stunting Prevention), Disaster Risk Management as well as Capacity Development and Augmentation (CD&A) activities in the province.
Since 2013 WFP has also been implementing nutrition sensitive interventions providing nutrition support to vulnerable communities with programmes, including the Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), Blanket Supplementary Feeding and Stunting Prevention.
Disaster Risk Management (DRM) capacity augmentation activities are also being implemented in the region.
In 2015, WFP had assisted 508, 120 beneficiaries with $ 6.1 million in cash and 3670 tones of food in the Sindh.
Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem briefing the meeting about the programme launched by WFP in Sindh.
The programme targets children in the first 1,000 days of their life.
The CM Sindh was congratulated for success of SUN and Stunting prevention programme which have shown remarkable progress.
The malnutrition has come down by 19.6 percent while stunting cases have been controlled by eight percent alone in Thatta. The progress report of Sujawal was compiled.
Through the Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) WFP is covering Moderately Acute Malnourished (MAM) children of 6 to 59 months and Severely Malnourished PLWS through a Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) complementing four food insecure districts, Tharparkar, UmerKot, Sanghar and Jamshoro.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Sindh was working better during natural calamities but it concerned staff members need special trainings, capacity building and other support to enable them and the PDMA to meet any emergent situation.
On this the WFP and Sindh government agreed to work together for capacity building and other necessary support to PDMA, Sindh.