Evaluation of the USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program’s Support in Afar and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia (2024-2029)

Evaluation of the USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program’s Support in Afar and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia (2024-2029)

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2026.

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The project supports pre-primary and primary school children in in 343 schools in Afar and 157 schools in Oromia continuing from the FY18 project. The project aims to strengthen government capacity to manage and sustain a nationally owned school meals project school meals project, with the goal of transitioning USDA-supported schools to full government ownership by the end of the project. The evaluation cycle contains three exercises, the baseline study (2025), a midterm evaluation (2027) and a final evaluation (2029), which will cover the full project duration and all project activities and locations. The baseline study established the baseline situational analysis and values of outcome indicators, and feeding into USDA learning questions focus on community level systems, governance, and partnerships required to sustain the school meals project, and long-term impacts of school meals programmes on local agricultural production and food safety.

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