Publications

This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP El Salvador Country Office and covers the “Evaluación Temática de Género del Plan Estratégico de País de El Salvador 2017-2021” for the period from April 2017 to December 2019. It was carried out from October 2019 to May 2020.

This Strategic Evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Office of Evaluation. It assessed the quality and results of WFP’s efforts between 2014 and 2019 to secure adequate and appropriate funding to contribute towards zero hunger; and determine the reasons why WFP has or has not been able to fund its work in order to draw lessons. All types of WFP funding and resourcing were included in the scope of the evaluation for all areas of WFP’s work, including through internal allocation.

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.

WFP 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 terms of reference aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

The terms of reference aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

The brief provides an analysis on WFP Emergency Operation in Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) which have adapted to the newer challenges due to COVID-19 to continue life-saving interventions for the extremely vulnerable population. WFP has also ramped up its assistance to the host population which is a critical element of its operation.

WFP's Fill the Nutrient Gap tool analyses the nutrition situation in a country and identifies the barriers faced by the most vulnerable to accessing and consuming healthy and nutritious foods. The project is carried out in collaboration with a range of national stakeholders and its results are used to inform policies and programming in social protection, food systems, health, agriculture, education and other sectors that can contribute to improving nutrition.


You can watch a video with a brief overview of the Fill the Nutrient Gap analysis below.

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.

A partnership for healthy learners and brighter futures.

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 World Food Programme (WFP), 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 WFP 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 WFP Brazil CoE works closely with HQ Divisions, RBx, COs and WFP 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 WFP Centre fosters food and nutrition security solutions for countries to deliver long-term development benefits for children and vulnerable populations in the Global South.

The WFP Centre of Excellence’s second publication in the Good Practices Series shows examples of successful financing tools for School Feeding Programmes in different countries with diverse contexts.

The increase in the attendance and school enrolment; the improvement in students‘ nutrition, health and well-being; the direct and indirect impacts in the families as a whole, and even the encouragement to the human capital development and to local economies, are some examples of the multiple benefits of school feeding. They represent key levers for governments to boost national investments.

The Good Practices Series is a collection of thematic publications of the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger aiming to provide good examples of policies, actions and experiences related to school feeding from various countries.

The WFP Brazil Centre of Excellence against Hunger launched a new short publication presenting the collaboration between the Centre and the African Union Commission to advocate for home-grown school feeding and to support AU member states in their efforts to scale up school feeding across the continent.

Since 2011, the WFP Brazil Centre of Excellence has been working with several African countries to increase their interest in school feeding programmes, foster policy discussions and exchanges, and provide technical assistance to the design and implementation of their programmes. The mobilization around school feeding raised the interest of the African Union Commission, and in 2015 they sent a delegation to Brazil for a study visit focused on home-grown school feeding. After that, the African Union Commission decided to include home-grown school feeding programmes in the Continental Education Strategy, promote a formal resolution to increase member states’ commitment to school feeding and conduct a continental study on school feeding to inform decision makers about the challenges and benefits of school feeding for African countries.

The WFP Brazil Centre of Excellence has provided technical and financial support to all these initiatives since 2015 and, in 2019, delivered an evidenced-based package for the African Union to take ownership and implement a Continental School Feeding Cluster. The new publication presents the history of this fruitful collaboration and the results it has achieved with a full delivery of tools for regional ownership to convene actions on home-grown school feeding.

The WFP 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.

The WFP 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—HGSF). The WFP 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 WFP 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.