The 2023 Annual Report highlights the work of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil in achieving SDGs 1,2 and 17 through South-South Cooperation.
This joint IDB-Â鶹ÊÓƵ publication presents the state of school feeding programmes in LAC as of 2022. The publication highlights the critical role of school feeding programmes for the region
The 2021 Annual Report highlights the work of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil in achieving SDGs 1,2 and 17 through South-South Cooperation.
In 2020, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil underwent major changes, but activities to support countries in building resilient and sustainable solutions to fight hunger continued remotely. The 2020 Annual Report provides an overview of activities and results, including information on the new priority areas.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger is a global hub for knowledge exchange, capacity development and technical assistance to assist countries achieve zero hunger while it supports national ownership of programmes that guarantee sustainability of actions. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Brazil CoE works closely with HQ Divisions, RBx, COs and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Liaison Offices to expand food and nutrition security policies and programmes from a multi-sector perspective, particularly social safety net programmes that include school feeding linked to local agriculture and nutrition. Starting from the Brazilian experience in this area, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre fosters food and nutrition security solutions for countries to deliver long-term development benefits for children and vulnerable populations in the Global South.
Since 2011, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil has been engaging, either onsite or remotely, in technical assistance and capacity strengthening in development contexts for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Strategic Plan 2017-2021 and Agenda 2030 provide the Centre with an opportunity to strengthen its remote assistance¡¯s conceptual and operational framework to further contribute to national SDG2 efforts and results.
This document provides partners with a summary, rationale, and framework of the Centre¡¯s Virtual Exchanges methodology, a remote assistance concept for SDG2 solutions, with focus on school feeding programmes. The methodology is consistent with the demand-driven approach of the Centre and it will support countries to engage in South-South cooperation within a broader programmatic and development context by working with partner countries to identify the challenges to the strengthening of national programmes and defining a combination of technical assistance instruments and activities to overcoming the given challenge that will be implement in an adaptive and learning-focused manner.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil works closely with regional and national stakeholders (governments, private sector and institutions) to expand food and nutrition security policies and programmes from a multi-sector perspective, particularly social safety net programmes that include school feeding connected to local agriculture and nutrition (home-grown school feeding¡ªHGSF). The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre fosters food and nutrition security solutions for countries to deliver long-term development benefits for children and vulnerable populations in the Global South. As part of a long-term cooperation strategy, technical assistance and advisory services from the Centre is often provided based on the outcome of a planning and needs assessment process. Upon request of the government or Â鶹ÊÓƵ offices, the Centre analyses the possibility of deploying expertise (or remote assistance via its Virtual Exchanges methodology) to support the process of national planning; policies and programmes design and/or implementation, transition strategy design and implementation, country strategic planning support, supply chain services and project preparation for resource mobilization.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil 2019 Annual Report presents the activities carried out and the results achieved throughout the year. The document is divided into four main areas: Technical and Advisory Services; Partnerships Promotion; Advocacy Services; and Knowledge Services. Throughout 2019, we had great moments of strengthening and expanding partnerships and we also adopted innovative solutions. It was a year of hard work that paved the way for the intensification of activities for the coming years, especially since 2020 marks the beginning of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Brazil Centre of Excellence against Hunger launched a new short publication presenting the collaboration between the Centre and the African Union Commission to advocate for home-grown school feeding and to support AU member states in their efforts to scale up school feeding across the continent.
Since 2011, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Brazil Centre of Excellence has been working with several African countries to increase their interest in school feeding programmes, foster policy discussions and exchanges, and provide technical assistance to the design and implementation of their programmes. The mobilization around school feeding raised the interest of the African Union Commission, and in 2015 they sent a delegation to Brazil for a study visit focused on home-grown school feeding. After that, the African Union Commission decided to include home-grown school feeding programmes in the Continental Education Strategy, promote a formal resolution to increase member states¡¯ commitment to school feeding and conduct a continental study on school feeding to inform decision makers about the challenges and benefits of school feeding for African countries.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Brazil Centre of Excellence has provided technical and financial support to all these initiatives since 2015 and, in 2019, delivered an evidenced-based package for the African Union to take ownership and implement a Continental School Feeding Cluster. The new publication presents the history of this fruitful collaboration and the results it has achieved with a full delivery of tools for regional ownership to convene actions on home-grown school feeding.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence¡¯s second publication in the Good Practices Series shows examples of successful financing tools for School Feeding Programmes in different countries with diverse contexts.
The increase in the attendance and school enrolment; the improvement in students¡® nutrition, health and well-being; the direct and indirect impacts in the families as a whole, and even the encouragement to the human capital development and to local economies, are some examples of the multiple benefits of school feeding. They represent key levers for governments to boost national investments.
The Good Practices Series is a collection of thematic publications of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger aiming to provide good examples of policies, actions and experiences related to school feeding from various countries.
