School Meals Policy Evaluation
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The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives. This seminar was held in partnership with WFP under the title of "Utilizing evidence-based research to inform policy: The Case of School Feeding Programs"
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School Meals Policy Evaluation
- 1. “Evaluation Use for Policy Making: the Case of School Meals” Cairo, 24th April 2018 Evaluation evidence in RBC: School Feeding
- 2. SOCIAL PROTECTION SCHOOL MEALS SAFETY NETS 2013-17 REGIONAL OPERATIONAL EVALUATION SERIES (OpEv)
- 3. High attendance rates Large scale of beneficiaries Monitoring Indicators SCHOOL FEEDING: EDUCATION Unequal data available for attendance, enrollment, and retainment More beneficiaries than planned covered by SM programmes Room for improvement to measure nutritional impact and educational outcomes of children
- 4. SCHOOL FEEDING: FOOD SECURITY & NUTRITION A B C D Tajikistan Dietary diversity scores improved Egypt, Algeria Emerging double burden of malnutrition Algeria Reduction in the prevalence of children at risk of malnutrition Opportunity throughout the region Exploration of innovative alternatives other than in- kind food transfer
- 5. CAPACITY STRENGTHENING Results Optimized national school meals programme framework (Egypt, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan) Training for learning (Kyrgyz, Tunisia) Strengthening capacity on enhanced nutrition (Kyrgyz) Emergency capacity (Tajikistan, Ukraine)
- 6. PARTNERSHIP Technical support MULTISECTORAL APPROACH Policies Strategies Knowledge sharing Best practices
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- Spell out objectives of the PPT, what will be presented, source of evaluation evidence
- The main results will be presented for WFP’s operations evaluations (OpEv), supporting the organization’s corporate objective of accountability and learning for results. Since mid-2013, the series has generated 58 evaluations of operations across the 6 regions in which WFP operates. 9 of 43 operations in the Cairo region were evaluated under the 2013-16 OpEv series (excluding level 3 emergencies) This corresponds to 21% of the regional portfolio of operations and 22% of the operational budget. IN addition, to enrich the content of evidence base other evaluations and reviews will also be considered and presented.
- SF modality applied in 6 out of 9 operations evaluated (Armenia, Egypt, Kyrgyz, Sudan, Tunisia) For the six operations the output level achievement was mostly positive, often linked to joint planning and implementation with government. Outcome data reported variability on enrolment, attendance and retention rates. For example, in Iran, whilst targets for girls in primary school were over-achieved, girls in secondary school under-achieved (68%). So, results were mixed, with 1 operations achieving high attendance rates, two meeting targets on attendance rates, and neither operation that set targets on enrolment meeting these. Outcome data was available for the five relevant school feeding interventions, though operations reported variably on enrolment, attendance and retention rates. In Armenia and Iran, only attendance data was available. In Tunisia, achievements are reported under “building enabling environments” and “capacity strengthening”. In particular: 3 evaluations found high attendance rates in WFP-assisted primary schools (Egypt, Armenia, Iran). For the two operations (Egypt and Sudan) reporting on rates, both met or exceeded targets, but the evaluation questions the relevance of the corporate indicators in Egypt, which it considers to inadequately reflect the achievements of school feeding interventions in Egypt. Thus, reflections on the monitoring gap and how it will improve WFP’s impact. The largest scale of activities which directly targeted beneficiaries were in Egypt, targeting over a million children in 2015, and Sudan, which targeted just under a million beneficiaries in 2015 and 2016.In Armenia, beneficiaries and geographic targets were progressively increased from 12,000 to 67,000 primary schoolchildren; from two districts to all provinces except the capital Yerevan. In Kyrgyz, over the course of the PSNP operation’s implementation, multiple new projects were added under the programme’s umbrella. These projects helped to expand WFP donor base, as well as the geographic reach and scope of the PSNP. More beneficiaries than planned were covered by the school meals programme operation, with food requirements 280 % greater. The budget increased by 393 % and beneficiary numbers were up by 456 % on the original figures in response to government request.
- Only three of the evaluated operations planned nutrition interventions (in Egypt, Sudan and Tajikistan). Sudan was again the major operation here, targeting 400,000 people through targeted supplementary feeding initiatives and 100,000 through blanket supplementary feeding programmes in 2016. In Tajikistan, nutrition interventions targeted 51,322 people over the operation’s period. In this area, the two operations both under-achieved against targets. In both countries, targeted supplementary feeding achieved high recovery rates from moderate acute malnutrition, meeting Sphere standards, though the activity was small scale in Tajikistan. Dietary diversity scores improved in Tajikistan, along with diversified income sources and reduced use of negative coping strategies. From most recent sources, Algeria DE: Algeria – key findings: Programme covers the energy and nutrition needs of the Sahrawi population, and the complementary fresh food rations distributed by other actors ensures a more adequate intake and a greater diversity of the diet. Diversity and stability of food rations (GFD and fresh products), and the need to ensure distribution of fortified (or micronutrient-rich) foods, are recurring issues need to improve the intake of micronutrient-rich food items by integrating self-reliance interventions, and exploring alternatives other than in-kind food transfers. Review and improvement of monitoring systems and tools for the nutrition activities also appears repeatedly as a priority Algeria - Unexpected effects: positive effect of the food distribution, as perceived by the population, was the ability of people to allocate their time to other tasks at the same time issues were raised about the time of day when distribution were made and how this affected them. According to the discussions, food distributions would often take place at mid-day, creating an extra burden on women who struggled to cope with the different household chores and the responsibility of cooking. The pipeline breaks did have an effect on perceptions of beneficiaries, who complained that at times they did not know what they were going to receive from the distribution (and whether they liked it). beneficiaries were often unable to distinguish what products were distributed by WFP. Emerging high level of industrialised foods available in shops, as well as the proliferation of pizza and hamburger restaurants. Changing eating habits is definitely taking place, and this is having an effect on both obesity rates in the camp and in the proliferation of rubbish and wrappers in the refugee camps
- SF programmes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Kyrgyzstan were explicitly geared to help implement government programmes, and/or were implemented through national structures, as well as the nutrition programme in Tajikistan. Specifically, in Egypt and Tunisia, operations were almost wholly geared to capacity and policy strengthening for school feeding (both operations) and livelihoods and disaster risk reduction (Egypt). In Kyrgyzstan, WFP implemented two operations. The PSNP operation sought to enhance Government’s capacity to contribute to sustainable food security, nutrition and resilience among the poorest and most food insecure groups. Social protection frameworks offered potentially conducive policy frameworks for eight out of nine operations (all other than Armenia) and particularly strongly aligned in Tunisia, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan. In Kyrgyz, national capacity assessments found improving government capacity to manage an optimized national school meals programme framework. Trainings were carried out on the roles and responsibilities of government staff at different levels and in different ministries, and capacity development for NGOs (Kyrgyz, Tunisia) Capacity strengthening of local authorities for emergency assessment and response (Tajikistan, Ukraine) Strengthening capacities among local and national actors on enhanced nutrition to enable balanced and healthy eating habits (Kyrgyz)
- - Evaluations in this series have consistently highlighted WFP’s strong relationship with governments. However, evaluation in the Cairo region are more mixed, reflecting some of the challenging governance environments in the region. 5 out of 9 evaluations, all smaller operations, focused on capacity development and policy strengthening, praised the strength and collaborative nature of WFP relationships with partners governments. Partnership with government is described as the “critical success factor” in Egypt and in both operations in Kyrgyz, and is highly praised in Tunisia and Tajikistan. Relationships with local authorities are also particularly praise in Tajikistan and Kyrgyz. - WFP can be an advocate for an integrated and multisector approach to food security only if it can perform a strategic role brining actors together to work closely to solve a common problem; and WFP has the evidence base to do so. - In Egypt, with CP activities highly coherent and connected with government policies and strategies, the evaluation found many examples where activities implemented or prompted by WFP had become day-to-day practices across various government institutions, partners and participants: for example, climate-smart agriculture practices.