This scoping exercise offers an initial understanding of the digital financial landscape in Lao PDR and a preliminary exploration of opportunities and challenges surrounding digitalization of humanitarian cash transfers, mobile money transfers in particular
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.
As the COVID outbreak started, the Government of India announced food safety schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for NFSA beneficiaries and Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package (ANB) for Migrants/Stranded Migrants easing the hardships faced by the poor/vulnerable beneficiary due to economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
This study analyzes the interconnectedness of climate change and food security in the Philippines, particularly the threats and the opportunities it presents to food, nutrition, and livelihood in rural and urban areas.
A list of key principles for policy makers and practitioners to consider for their assessments, planning, and design of innovative social protection policies and programmes that support climate adaptation and move beyond shock response
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.
Myanmar has made significant progress in reducing poverty, improving food security and addressing malnutrition. However, challenges still remain to ensure that all families have access to diverse and nutritious food. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working to ensure that Myanmar is on-track to reach zero hunger by 2030. Take a look at how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is helping:
The project aims to provide emergency financial support to support the delivery of basic education services, protect and invest in human capital and have a lasting impact on learning across Yemen.
Climate change is altering weather patterns which is negatively impacting rainfed agriculture¡¯s productivity. This factsheet explains the importance of sustainable irrigation and how Â鶹ÊÓƵ designs sustainable solar water irrigation interventions.
This paper aims to shed light on the linkages between poverty, food security and nutrition by highlighting their interconnectedness and the role of social protection in addressing these challenges.
This document seeks to offer practical guidance and examples for monitoring and evaluating anticipatory actions for slow and fast-onset hazards. It helps to answer the overarching question does Anticipatory Action (AA) make a difference to reduce or mitigate the impacts on affected populations, reaching them effectively and on time.
This factsheet provides a summary of the main findings of a Food Security Outcome Monitoring (FSOM) exercise conducted in March 2021 covering households living in the community.
This factsheet provides a summary of the main findings of a Food Security Outcome Monitoring (FSOM) exercise conducted in March 2021 covering the beneficiaries in Azraq and Zaatari Camps.
mVAM is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping project that uses mobile technology to remotely monitor household food security and nutrition, and related trends in real-time, providing high-frequency, gender-disaggregated and operationally relevant data that supports humanitarian decision-making.
Sustainable energy solutions are critical for global climate action. This factsheet explains how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing clean cooking facilities to schools.
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.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Cuba is promoting inclusive risk financing solutions as part of an integrated approach to reduce the vulnerability of farmers to drought and climate-related risks.
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 CSP in Lebanon
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.
