The evaluation focuses on Strategic Outcome 3 (SO3), which aims to ensure that "by 2027, targeted vulnerable households and smallholder farmers in Nigeria have improved sustainable livelihoods and enhanced social cohesion derived from food systems that are resilient to shocks, enabling year-round access to nutritious diets".
Key conclusions of the evaluation:
1. The Country Office has a strategically relevant food systems approach, but its translation into programme design and implementation remains incomplete.
2. SO3 interventions are highly relevant and deliver meaningful household-level results, but these gains remain limited in scale and uncertain in sustainability.
3. Achieving more sustained and scalable outcomes will require a shift towards more systemic approaches that go beyond household-level support.
4. The formulation and implementation of SO3 do not clearly articulate or operationalize the link between resilience building and food systems development.
5. Resources under SO3 have been used efficiently, but design choices have limited the depth and transformative potential of results.
6. SO3 has contributed to gender equality and women’s empowerment, but structural barriers continue to limit the extent and sustainability of these gains.
7. Limitations in outcome-oriented monitoring constrain WFP’s ability to assess results, support adaptive management and demonstrate impact.