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This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Republic of Congo Country Office and covers the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS) funded five-year school feeding project under the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program covering the period 2021¨C2026.?

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.

This summary brings together evidence from 49 Â鶹ÊÓƵ-commissioned independent evaluations, which cover the period 2018-2023.

This report presents a summary of the key findings and recommendations on school feeding based on three evaluations commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in the Republic of Congo, between 2017 and 2022.

The Factsheet provides an overview of the SSTC Country Project in the Republic of Congo in 2022 as part of the joint MARA-Â鶹ÊÓƵ Global SSTC Initiative.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has operations in 12 countries in southern Africa. This factsheet provides an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s impact and achievements in the region in 2022

The terms of reference (TOR) aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Congo Country Office commissioned the decentralized evaluation which was conducted by KonTerra Group. The evaluation covered the McGovern-Dole project implemented in seven different departments, namely Pool, Plateaux, Cuvette, Bouenza, L¨¦koumou, Likouala and Sangha in the Republic of Congo from 2018 until 2021.

The evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Republic of Congo and covers school feeding program funded by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the McGovern-Dole project implemented in 410 schools in seven intervention departments namely Pool, Bouenza, L¨¦koumou, Plateaux, Cuvette, Sangha and Likouala. This project, which benefited 92,000 children of which 47 percent were girls, was implemented from September 2017 to September 2023 with a budget of US$ 29.9 million, to which was added the contribution of 446 tons of canned sardines by Japan.
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L'¨¦valuation a ¨¦t¨¦ commandit¨¦e par le PAM R¨¦publique du Congo et porte sur le programme d'alimentation scolaire financ¨¦ par le d¨¦partement am¨¦ricain de l'agriculture (USDA) ¨¤ travers le projet McGovern-Dole mis en ?uvre dans 410 ¨¦coles dans sept d¨¦partements d'intervention ¨¤ savoir le Pool, la Bouenza, la L¨¦koumou, les Plateaux, la Cuvette, la Sangha et la Likouala. Ce projet, qui a b¨¦n¨¦fici¨¦ ¨¤ 92 000 enfants dont 47% de filles, a ¨¦t¨¦ mis en ?uvre de septembre 2017 ¨¤ septembre 2023 avec un budget de 29,9 millions de dollars US, auquel s'ajoute la contribution de 446 tonnes de sardines en conserve par le Japon.

The terms of reference (TOR) aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

Cassava is a favoured staple food in the Republic of Congo

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is addressing vulnerable people's immediate food needs with cash or food transfers while supporting the development or rehabilitation of assets that enhance the resilience of communities in its food assistance for assets (FFA) projects. This factsheet gives an overview of FFA interventions in southern Africa.

While smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to 90 percent of food production in some countries, often systems in the region do not support profitability for them. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working across Southern Africa to address bottlenecks in food systems to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers. This factsheet gives an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s approach to smallholder farmers.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ policy on South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) issued in 2015, has been evaluated in the sixth year of implementation, in line with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Evaluation Policy 2016-2021.

While Southern Africa contributes only 1 percent to global carbon emissions, their temperatures are rising at double the global rate and climate impacts such as cyclones and droughts are rampant. This factsheet brings to the fore climate change challenges in the region and how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is supporting the people in adapting to this unrelenting phenomenon.