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The evaluation was conducted between June 2021 and April 2022 to assess Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which Â鶹ÊÓƵ has made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency and factors that explain Â鶹ÊÓƵ performance.

It concluded that:

• The strategic direction of the CSP towards enabling national and subnational institutions to design and deliver on their social protection, food security and nutrition priorities was highly relevant.
• Responsiveness of Â鶹ÊÓƵ to the needs of the most vulnerable population groups was broadly appropriate, however, more attention should be given to consultations with affected populations.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strength and added value remain in the direct implementation of activities of which school feeding has promising sustainability prospects while the sustainability potential for nutrition and resilience building areas remains moderate.
• Good progress has been made in capacity strengthening for the school meals programme including in the policy domain, while in nutrition and resilience building, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s ability to deliver country capacity strengthening interventions beyond the individual level is only emerging
• Finally, the implementation of activities was affected by funding shortages and delays, a staff skillset that did not reflect the growing capacity strengthening role of Â鶹ÊÓƵ, turnover of staff, and shortingcomings in the intervention logic.