Â鶹ÊÓƵ navigated through a dynamic landscape, overcoming numerous challenges such as supply chain disruptions, funding gaps to logistical hurdles to ensure the effective procurement of essential goods and services for humanitarian operations regionally. Despite these obstacles, Â鶹ÊÓƵ remained steadfast in its commitment to delivering timely and efficient procurement services, contributing to the organization¡¯s mission of addressing hunger and food insecurity.
In 2023, the Eastern Africa region faced unprecedented operational, economic, and access challenges. Despite these hurdles, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Logistics remained a resilient backbone of its operations. Our logistics operations were agile, efficient, and swift, ensuring that we reached people affected by crises.
In 2024, Â鶹ÊÓƵ continued the provision of humanitarian assistance in Eastern Africa, including in response to the effects of the Horn of Africa drought earlier in the year and El-Nino-enhanced flooding later in the year, against a backdrop of widespread insecurity and conflict in the region. All enabled by the generous contributions from our donors, crisis response accounted for 85 percent of Â鶹ÊÓƵ resources in the region.
In Eastern Africa, the year 2023 witnessed a concerning rise in the number of people, particularly children under 5 years of age and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls (PBWG), requiring nutritional support primarily attributed to a combination of climatic shocks, including droughts and El Ni?o events, compounded by ongoing conflicts in the region.
In 2023, Eastern Africa faced rising humanitarian needs due to conflict, climate hazards, and economic shocks. The number of food-insecure people doubled over five years to 63 million.
Even though decreased humanitarian funding strained Â鶹ÊÓƵ's capacity to deliver vital aid, Â鶹ÊÓƵ introduced prioritization measures, still managing to reach nearly 40 million people with food and nutrition assistance.
This fourth edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements reflects Â鶹ÊÓƵ's capacities in numerous domains, among them emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment, knowledge management, and evidence generation. This publication additionally celebrates our work and the difference we make.
The evaluation of the country strategic plan for Rwanda for 2019¨C2023 covers the period from 2019 to mid-2023 and assesses Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic positioning, its contribution to strategic outcomes, efficiency in implementation and the factors explaining its performance.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ spends more than US$745 million annually in East Africa. This spending is vital to the humanitarian operations, and also affects local economies, potentially creating large income and production impacts.
To support increased emphasis on food systems approach, and in complement of the Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for East Africa (RBN) commissioned this ¡°thematic evaluation of supply chain outcomes in the food system in Eastern Africa¡±.
Rwanda is an excellent case study where fortification of wholegrains in school meals is used to increase the nutrient content of the meal while maintaining the benefits of wholegrains.
Le Rwanda est une excellente ¨¦tude de cas o¨´ la fortification de grains entiers dans le cadre des cantines scolaires augmente la teneur en nutriments tout en maintenant les avantages de grains entiers.
This strategy supports the Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa, and
the countries in the region, to capture, manage, use, and share knowledge emerging from their Country Strategic Plans (CSP) implementation effectively and efficiently.
This third edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements celebrates our work and our impact, highlighting Â鶹ÊÓƵs capacities in a wide range of areas, including emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment and knowledge management and evidence generation.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa in Nairobi (RBN) and covers the period from January 2016 to December 2020. It was carried out in 2021.
The evaluation of this pilot activity is being commissioned by the Regional Bureau of Nairobi (RBN), in collaboration with FtMA and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Rwanda Country Office.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Rwanda Country Office and covers United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (¡°McGovern-Dole¡±) Programme¡¯s Support in Rwanda (2016-2021). It was carried out in 2021. The evaluation was commissioned to examine the project¡¯s impact and identifies lessons for future programming and was intended for both accountability and learning purposes. It focused on assessing the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability.
This study identifies opportunities for climate-sensitive and shock-responsive social protection in Rwanda, calling for unique solutions tailored to the country¡¯s distinct shock profile and coordination between the social protection and disaster management sectors.
This second edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional eBook highlights and celebrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ work in Eastern Africa and demonstrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ capacities in various areas including: emergency preparedness and response, food system, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, and food security analysis.
This report is a product of the first phase of the Social Protection Learning Facility partnership and focuses on lessons learned from Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work in 2020 that are important for the social protection sector in the East Africa region going forward.
This report presents the findings of the Global End-term Evaluation of The Joint Programme on ¡°Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women¡± (JP RWEE).
