World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

 The Annual Evaluation Report for 2010 focuses on operational issues arising from evaluations of country portfolios and operations, and impact evaluations of selected school feeding programmes.

The findings reaffirm WFP’s corporate areas of strength in responding to emergencies under the most difficult circumstances and in providing school feeding, as one of the Programme’s flagship programmes. However, impact evaluations of these programmes also showed the importance of implementing school feeding in cooperation with partners who invest in education sector improvements. Areas where largest improvements can be made relate to food-for-work, where funding often is curtailed and thus strategic objectives moved beyond reach, and nutrition where the ambiguous objectives and small size of programmes make it difficult to demonstrate results.

In a changing environment, WFP’s support to basic education is well in line with government policies and has helped increase the number of children going through school. The Take-Home Rations for girls offer a model of best practice. Supplementary feeding and health and nutrition education has also shown some positive results but needs re-aligning with new government thinking. Overall, sharper focus is needed and learning from the mixed experience on strategies for hand-over to government.