Re-Imagining School Feeding: A High-Return Investment in Human Capital and Local Economies was developed by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the editorial team of Disease Control Priorities and published by the World Bank. This book seeks to share the latest child-centered evidence showing how well-designed school feeding programs can promote human capital development in low- and middle-income countries, especially as part of a cost-effective essential package of interventions for school children and adolescents.
The COVID-19 virus is spurring dramatic changes to economic, healthcare, transportation, and education systems around the world. Impacts are also felt through international trade disruptions, restrictions in supply chains and an increase in cost of imports and exports.
Syntheses are issued to respond to a growing interest in and demand for succinct and actionable analysis drawing from completed evaluations. This synthesis comprises all the nine policy evaluations conducted between 2011 and 2019.
This Strategic Evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Office of Evaluation. It assessed the quality and results of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s efforts between 2014 and 2019 to secure adequate and appropriate funding to contribute towards zero hunger; and determine the reasons why Â鶹ÊÓƵ has or has not been able to fund its work in order to draw lessons. All types of Â鶹ÊÓƵ funding and resourcing were included in the scope of the evaluation for all areas of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work, including through internal allocation.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ El Salvador Country Office and covers the ¡°Evaluaci¨®n Tem¨¢tica de G¨¦nero del Plan Estrat¨¦gico de Pa¨ªs de El Salvador 2017-2021¡± for the period from April 2017 to December 2019. It was carried out from October 2019 to May 2020.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ and ODI review the evidence base on Anticipatory Action (AA) and conclude that to achieve an effective scale up of the approach and ensure Anticipatory Action achieves the intended changes on both disaster response systems and people¡¯s vulnerability and resilience to climate change, robust empirical data and a strong monitoring, evaluation and learning agenda are necessary.
The Gender Policy (2015-2020) was approved in May 2015. The evaluation provides evidence, analysis and recommendations related to the Gender Policy¡¯s quality, results and to the factors that influenced those results.
The twin shocks of school closures and global recession due to COVID-19 could have long-term costs to education and development. But, if countries move quickly to support continued learning, they can at least partially mitigate the damage. And with the right planning and policies, they can use the crisis as an opportunity to build more inclusive, efficient, and resilient education systems.
The Uganda Vulnerability Refugee Assessment provides a comprehensive picture of vulnerability among refugee families and the socio-economic dynamics in the settlements. The study was commissioned by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Government of Uganda.
The data collection was conducted in October 2017 to cover a total of 18 settlements across ten districts.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger is a global hub for knowledge exchange, capacity development and technical assistance to assist countries achieve zero hunger while it supports national ownership of programmes that guarantee sustainability of actions. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Brazil CoE works closely with HQ Divisions, RBx, COs and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Liaison Offices to expand food and nutrition security policies and programmes from a multi-sector perspective, particularly social safety net programmes that include school feeding linked to local agriculture and nutrition. Starting from the Brazilian experience in this area, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre fosters food and nutrition security solutions for countries to deliver long-term development benefits for children and vulnerable populations in the Global South.
Since 2011, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil has been engaging, either onsite or remotely, in technical assistance and capacity strengthening in development contexts for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Strategic Plan 2017-2021 and Agenda 2030 provide the Centre with an opportunity to strengthen its remote assistance¡¯s conceptual and operational framework to further contribute to national SDG2 efforts and results.
This document provides partners with a summary, rationale, and framework of the Centre¡¯s Virtual Exchanges methodology, a remote assistance concept for SDG2 solutions, with focus on school feeding programmes. The methodology is consistent with the demand-driven approach of the Centre and it will support countries to engage in South-South cooperation within a broader programmatic and development context by working with partner countries to identify the challenges to the strengthening of national programmes and defining a combination of technical assistance instruments and activities to overcoming the given challenge that will be implement in an adaptive and learning-focused manner.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil works closely with regional and national stakeholders (governments, private sector and institutions) to expand food and nutrition security policies and programmes from a multi-sector perspective, particularly social safety net programmes that include school feeding connected to local agriculture and nutrition (home-grown school feeding¡ªHGSF). The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre fosters food and nutrition security solutions for countries to deliver long-term development benefits for children and vulnerable populations in the Global South. As part of a long-term cooperation strategy, technical assistance and advisory services from the Centre is often provided based on the outcome of a planning and needs assessment process. Upon request of the government or Â鶹ÊÓƵ offices, the Centre analyses the possibility of deploying expertise (or remote assistance via its Virtual Exchanges methodology) to support the process of national planning; policies and programmes design and/or implementation, transition strategy design and implementation, country strategic planning support, supply chain services and project preparation for resource mobilization.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil 2019 Annual Report presents the activities carried out and the results achieved throughout the year. The document is divided into four main areas: Technical and Advisory Services; Partnerships Promotion; Advocacy Services; and Knowledge Services. Throughout 2019, we had great moments of strengthening and expanding partnerships and we also adopted innovative solutions. It was a year of hard work that paved the way for the intensification of activities for the coming years, especially since 2020 marks the beginning of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
