The evaluation finds that Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative - which reached 17,835 smallholder farmers in drought-prone southern Zambia ¨C remained highly relevant over the 2014-2025 period, delivering meaningful resilience gains despite severe shocks, including COVID-19 and the 2023¨C2024 El Ni?o drought.
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.
Through 12 case studies, this report examines how the Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) analyses can be leveraged to enhance the ability of national social protection systems in addressing the affordability gaps of nutritious diets.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Disaster Risk Financing solutions have been helping affected communities respond to the impacts of El Ni?o-induced droughts by delivering timely financial assistance and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities in Southern Africa.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been an Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica Partner since 2018, purchasing insurance policies in several African countries to help protect vulnerable people from climate shocks.
This paper explains the collaboration of Â鶹ÊÓƵ with the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) to strengthen local weather and climate prediction products through enhanced observations, serving as essential tools for climate adaptation, resilience development, and anticipatory action projects.
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 Zambia.
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.
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.
