Eswatini working with key sectors undertook the Zero Hunger Strategic Review in an effort to inform implementation of SDGs 1 and 2. The Review seeks to analyse the obtaining food and nutrition situation and its linkages to poverty in the country and identify opportunities to strengthen current and future programmes and strategies aimed towards the attainment of zero hunger and ending poverty by 2030.
The strategy provides an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s assistance to strengthen Bhutan¡¯s climate resilient food systems across the agriculture value chain from increasing the demand for local food, improving production capacity, post-harvest management, marketing, coordination and knowledge management.
This strategic evaluation covers the full range of emergencies Â鶹ÊÓƵ responds to from preparedness, immediate response and longer-term response through to exit. The evaluation is organized around the contribution that Â鶹ÊÓƵ capacity makes to the quality of its emergency responses. It considers Â鶹ÊÓƵ capacities at three interdependent levels - the enabling environment, the organization and the individual.
During this quarter, the R4 Initiative expanded to Burkina Faso, targeting its first 700 households in Central North and East provinces. The initiative will also be piloted in Mozambique this year, with activities starting in Gaza and Tete provinces. In Senegal, over 8,000 farmers are insured and in Ethiopia, more than 26, 000 farmers registered for insurance this quarter. In Zimbabwe, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) proposal for the expansion of R4 in the country was approved during the 23rd Meeting of the GCF Board in Songdo. In Zambia, results from a survey assessing the 2017/18 payout process indicated that insurance compensation was mostly used to buy agricultural inputs, food, and livestock. In Kenya, activities focused on sensitizing farmers for the 2019 Short Rains season, and in Malawi activities during this quarter mainly focused on the risk transfer component.
Given the uncertainty around the impacts of climate change, social protection represents a key form of ¡®low regrets¡¯ investment, where it balances the dual role of supporting poverty alleviation, while also addressing vulnerability to climate change. Â鶹ÊÓƵ can then engage in the provision of technical assistance and policy support, as well as facilitate dialogue among different institutions and partners to support more climate adaptive social protection programmes
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2019 Annual Report describes the third year of activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
This think piece was produced by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in collaboration with Oxford Policy Management and sets out a vision of how social protection can support households facing climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The decentralized evaluation was jointly commissioned by the Eswatini Country Office and covers the National School Feeding Programme (NSFP) for the period 2010 - 2018.
This decentralised evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mauritania Country Office and covers all aspects related to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s contribution to the implementation of the Adaptive Social Protection System (SPSA) in country, from 2018 to 2020. It was carried out in 2020.
In 2017, Â鶹ÊÓƵ commissioned a Gender, Risk and Urban Livelihood study in Syria to better understand the changing gender roles in vulnerable and food-insecure urban households due to the conflict, and the protection risks that men and women face when accessing livelihoods. The study informed a number of programmatic entry points for Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Syria relating to the design of safe, gender-responsive urban livelihoods programmes.
The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in India provides highly subsidized food grains to more than 800 million beneficiaries covering more than 500,000 FPS across all States and Union Territories (UTs) in India.
This brief outlines Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s support to countries in preventing and controlling diet-related NCDs and the relevant partnerships to support in mobilizing resources to drive this agenda to achieve NCD-related SDGs.
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2018 Annual Report describes the second year of activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
