This decentralized endline evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Bangladesh Country Office and covers the USDA McGovern Dole 2017-2020 grant. It was carried out in 2020 and finalized in 2021.
In Cambodia, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working closely together with the Government to build a platform, centred around schools, to improve nutrition and educational outcomes and build smallholder farmer¡¯s livelihoods.
The evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next Â鶹ÊÓƵ Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Lao PDR.
The evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning, to inform the preparation of the next country strategic plan (CSP) of Â鶹ÊÓƵ in The Gambia.
Prior to COVID-19, close to 129 million children in the Asia and the Pacific region received school meals, primarily through government-led, national school feeding programmes. Due to COVID-19 school closures, many of these children stopped receiving on-site school meals. Although some countries introduced alternative solutions, school-age children are expected to have been negatively affected by this disruption. Against this backdrop, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBB) commissioned Oxford Policy Management to undertake a review of adaptations to on-site SF in order to inform policymaking and programming in the context of the new reality. This research sought to answer the key research question through an emphasis on gathering data primarily from six countries in the region where Â鶹ÊÓƵ supports SF programmes in different capacities: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is implementing a nationwide school feeding project to ensure children have access to nutritionally-balanced meals by installing solar systems in 5 schools to power cooking, agriculture, and heating. In addition, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is addressing lighting needs along with stimulating the growth of local businesses.
This publication provides a summary of a technical consultation on the double burden of malnutrition, discussing policy implications and double-duty actions to be taken.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s school feeding programme is successfully implemented in partnership with the Government of Malawi (GoM) in the most food insecure districts of Malawi since 1999. When linked to local food production, school meals programmes also have the potential to benefit local producers and economies while promoting long-term food security.
The programme is currently targeting about 600,000 children in seven districts (Chikwawa, Dedza Mangochi, Phalombe, Nsanje, Salima and Zomba).
The UN System in Malawi has been present since 1964 and consist of 21 UN agencies, programmes and funds, both resident and non-resident. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the lead agency for Pillar III of the UNDAF on Inclusive and Resilient Growth. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the convening agency of three UN Joint Programmes on girls education, resilience-building and social protection, and is a participating agency in a Rome-based agency (RBA) joint programme on gender transformative action and a joint programme centred on support to the Malawi National COVID-19 Vaccine Programme.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has embarked on a transformative journey scaling up an Integrated Resilience Programme in the G5 Sahel countries. This report sheds light on the people it serves and the achievements.
This report presents the efforts, good practices and learnings identified from Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s policy engagement and provision of technical assistance for National Nutrition Programme for School Children in Indonesia, Program Gizi Anak Sekolah (Progas). The programme, which was operational between 2016 and 2019, funded through the Ministry of Education and Culture¡¯s (MoEC¡¯s) national budget. This report is intended to inform the Government, national and subnational stakeholders and development partners, including Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and provide a basis for future endeavours to improve the nutritional status of school-aged children.
The strategy articulates Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s approach to social protection and offers a coordinating framework that outlines how the organization will contribute deliberately and systematically to collective efforts to achieve long-term national social protection goals.
The terms of reference 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.
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.
The information booklet provides an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-saving interventions in Cox¡¯s Bazar. It includes individual factsheets on each programme and sector, and is updated every quarter.
This study aimed to establish a snapshot of the current landscape of home-grown school feeding in West and Central Africa, identifying its current objectives, opportunities and challenges and providing a future perspective of where HGSF can move towards with capitalization, sharing and cooperation.
