Annual Country Report 2019: Namibia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2022
2019
ELR 2035
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Title
Annual Country Report 2019: Namibia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2022
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.
Language Note
English
Description
32 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR2035
Summary
Having suffered its worst drought in 35 years – resulting in a 53 percent drop in cereal production and massive livestock losses – Namibia saw a hunger surge in 2019. In May, the Government declared a state of emergency as more than 40 percent of its 2.5 million people were severely food insecure and in need of humanitarian assistance. Not having directly distributed food in Namibia for almost 40 years, WFP resumed doing so in December, providing food to 7,919 people. Food distributions were to continue and expand in early 2020. As part of its humanitarian support package, WFP worked with the Government to pilot SCOPE, WFP's beneficiary and transfer management platform. This digital platform registers all people who receive assistance and tracks distributions for the National Food Bank Programme in seven constituencies of the Khomas region. To strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems – a critical gap identified in Namibia’s Zero Hunger Strategic Review – WFP supported the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, the Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, and the Office of the Prime Minister in developing monitoring and evaluation tools for output- and outcome-level reporting. During the year, WFP completed an evaluation of the National School Feeding Programme as well as an internal mid-term review of the CSP, with both due to be validated in the first quarter of 2020. Preliminary findings underlined the relevance and effectiveness of WFP’s technical assistance, including diagnostic work, evidence-building, and policy development. In 2020, WFP was to refine its capacity-strengthening strategy to document its intervention logic and monitoring framework to support sustainable enhancements of national systems.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 2035
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127844
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Annual Country Report (ACR)