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.
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 decentralized evaluation is commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ South Sudan Country Office. It covers the School Feeding Programme activities from January 2018 to February 2023.
The impact evaluation is intended to estimate the impacts of the UNICEF-Â鶹ÊÓƵ joint resilience programme on absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience capacities.
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.
Derived from UN and Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) standards, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic and policy direction on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) comes from the Executive Director¡¯s circular on PSEA, as updated in May 2023. This complements the direction on PSEA set out in Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic plan for 2022¨C2025. This strategic evaluation assessed the efforts of Â鶹ÊÓƵ toward PSEA from March 2017 to October 2023 to understand what has worked well, and where efforts can be further strengthened.
The protection landscape in the Eastern African region is complex and characterized by a multitude of risks from various factors including conflict, political instability, humanitarian crises, and natural disasters. To mitigate these risks, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is embedding the centrality of protection and AAP into its operations.
School feeding programmes are quickly gaining popularity in the region among governments as a critical investment in human capital, local economies, health, and nutrition, and are firmly leading the advancement of this agenda, despite the significant challenge of limited fiscal capacity. Â鶹ÊÓƵ continues to play an important role in school feeding and is well-positioned to support governments and contribute to the multiple benefits it offers.
Gender inequalities and lack of women empowerment are critical barriers to achieving food security. Across the countries in the Eastern Africa Region, women continue to face adverse inequalities, ranging from social and cultural norms.
In Eastern Africa, Â鶹ÊÓƵ implemented integrated programmes action across several sectors including increasing access to adequate, nutritious, and affordable food through functioning food systems; early and anticipatory protection from climate shocks; food and nutrition support during crises; basic social services to build human capital; livelihood support; and community infrastructure and ecosystems restoration.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) played a crucial role in enabling humanitarian response in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia Kenya and South Sudan. UNHAS provided timely, reliable, cost-effective air transport service to 375 humanitarian partners. This was particularly critical in fragile contexts where access was limited due to conflict or climatic disasters, and no suitable commercial aviation options were available.
Food safety and quality are critical pillars of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s mission to alleviate hunger and food insecurity worldwide. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is committed to providing safe, nutritious, and high-quality food to those in need, recognizing the health implications of consuming substandard or unsafe food.
The humanitarian situation in the Eastern Africa region is characterized by shocks, fragility, and conflict in many countries, which continued to highlight the importance of social protection as a way of meeting essential needs, responding to crisis, and building resilience to shocks. Â鶹ÊÓƵ enhanced partnerships with governments, donors, and international financial institutions (IFIs) to mitigate the impacts of this situation through supporting the scale-up of shock responses, refugee inclusion, systems strengthening and enhancement of policy and institutional frameworks.
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.
