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.
The evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP) in Namibia.
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
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.
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.
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 evaluation was conducted in the context of Â鶹ÊÓƵ efforts to strategically position itself across the humanitarian development and peace nexus in the framework of the Agenda 2030 and the UN reform. It assessed progress towards the 2013 School Feeding Policy objectives, and how well Â鶹ÊÓƵ is positioned and equipped to deliver on its school feeding agenda, with particular emphasis on the organizational readiness to implement the 2020-2030 school feeding strategy.
This evaluation was jointly commissioned by the Namibia Country Office and the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MoEAC), and the evaluation covers the implementation of the Namibia School Feeding Programme (NSFP) for the period 2012 - 2018.
