This decentralized evaluation was jointly commissioned by a consortium of partners comprising the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Secretariat, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Landell Mills and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and covered the period March 2017 to March 2022.
This corporate emergency evaluation assessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to the COVID-19 pandemic from February 2020 ¨C June 2021. The evaluation was conducted under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including Â鶹ÊÓƵ in emergency mode; travel and movement restrictions; and the need to avoid unduly burdening country offices. Accordingly, it adopted a ¡°retrospective developmental¡± design, which focuses on providing evidence to support adaptation in dynamic environments.
The evaluation was concerned with Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s use of digital technologies and data over the period 2014 to mid-2021, in environments that are constrained in terms of humanitarian access or where there are important physical, social or political obstacles to the deployment of digital technologies. It was framed around the four interrelated components of a system including technology, people, policies and processes, and partnerships.
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.
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.
To respond to the vast needs in Tanganyika, DRC, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are implementing an integrated programme to build community resilience and strengthen agricultural value chains.
Given the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition prevalent in the Southern African region, this paper analyses the role of food security and nutrition in social protection programming and in bridging the humanitarian- development divide using the COVID-19 experience of several countries in the region.
The United Nation Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have joined forces in a pioneering programme to help marginalised people in the conflict-stricken eastern Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu.
In 2020, Â鶹ÊÓƵ assisted almost 6.9 million people across the country, with 3.7 million people receiving emergency food assistance and 1.5 million receiving cash-based transfers worth nearly US$46 million. Â鶹ÊÓƵ intensified and expanded the range of its interventions to assist a broader number of people in need, reaching more than 3.5 million IDPs and host families with food rations across the country.
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service is a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations on the planet.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has worked together with FAO to strengthen the resilience of communities in fragile states by reviving agricultural production and commodity markets that have been damaged by years of armed conflict in DRC.
The evaluation was commissioned by the independent Office of Evaluation to serve the dual purposes of accountability and learning to inform the preparation of the new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for DRC.
A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response.
The objectives of the Strategic Review are to: 1) take stock of the state of food and nutritional security in the country with the key problems that emerge from it; 2) take stock of the deficits in the policies and programmes implemented to respond to these problems; and 3) propose strategic lines of action not only to address these weaknesses, but also to put the DRC on the path to achieving the targets chosen by the fixed horizon.
This report synthetized the findings, conclusions and recommendations from four strategic evaluations related to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR): the global Logistics Cluster (2012), the global Food Security Cluster (2014), Â鶹ÊÓƵ's use of pooled funds for humanitarian preparedness and response (2015) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Preparedness and Response Enhancement Programme (PREP) (2015).
