WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger

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The WFP Centre of Excellence

The WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger is a global hub for South-South cooperation in school feeding, nutrition and

food security as well as social protection programmes.

The Centre is a partnership between the WFP and the Brazilian government that provides policy and programme advice, technical assistance, learning opportunities and acts as a global knowledge platform that brings southern nations

together and helps them to develop their own programmes.

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ObjectivesThe WFP Centre of Excellence

ProvideTraining and

Capacity Developme

nt Opportuniti

esPromote Research

and Innovative

Global Knowledge

Provide Direct

Technical Assistance

Advocate and

Promote School Feeding

Solutions

Engagement- Demand-

driven: requests by governments start the process

- Commitment between parties

Knowledge exchange

- Priority to peer-to-peer policy dialogue

- South-South peer-to-peer exchange dialogues

- Action Plan (concluding extensive knowledge sharing missions to Brazil)

- Technical missions (to or from Brazil)

- Technical report and recommendations

Continuous capacity-building support

High-level technical advice & dialogue

WFP Centre in Brazil- Advice & support on

strategic issues (e.g. conference calls, meetings)

- Analysis and inputs for key documents, such as policy drafts

- Research and analysis inputs in Food and Nutrition Security, school feeding, social protection and related subjects

Support in country/region

Facilitation missions- Support conferences, trainings, workshops and cross-sector consultations

- Support government-led design of policies

Expert consultancy- In-depth technical support: cost analysis, diagnostics, implementation planning

governments lead (capacity-building and facilitation) d emand - d r i v e n

government ’s engagement (no ready-made solutions)

evidence-based and multidimensional approach + knowledge platforms

South-South

cooperation

LONG-TERM CONTINUOUS SUPPORT FOR COUNTRIES

In almost 4 years, the Centre has organized technical and political dialogue and

study missions in Brazil for 395 people from 38 countries:

• 238 Government Officials;

• 1 President;

• 3 First-Ladies;

• 35 Ministers;

• 99 WFP Staff;

• 19 NGOs and Other International

Organizations’ representatives.

The WFP Centre in pictures

• 7 countries have conducted 9 national consultations;

• 14 countries received direct technical assistance;

• 24 countries are at different stages in developing home-grown school feeding initiatives;

• Over 750 participants in three editions of the Global Child Nutrition Forum co-organized by the Centre;

• Multiplying effect: at least 1 thousand people directly reached by the Centre’s advocacy initiatives: school feeding, social protection and food and nutrition security.

The WFP Centre in pictures

Partnership between the African Union Commission and the WFP Centre

The African Union Commission has initiated a continental framework programme around School Feeding, in collaboration with the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger, towards a continental approach to nationally-owned, sustainable school

feeding programmes.

The benefits of the HGSF on education in learning outcomes, admissions increase, accessibility to vulnerable groups and

poor and youth and women entrepreneurship are key themes in this partnership in order to benefit African countries .

As a first step in this partnership, a Dialogue & Study Mission to Brazil was organized by WFP and took place from 22nd to 30th

August 2015. It was composed by:

• Minister for Education of Niger and AU Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology

• Minister for Agriculture, Mechanization and Development of Zimbabwe• Minister of State for the Northern Region of Ghana• Counsellor of the Embassy of Cameroon in Brazil representing the Cameroon

Minister for Basic Education and Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development

• Senior officials representing Ministers from Malawi and Kenya• Southern African Development Community Technical Advisor• African Union Department for Rural Economy and Agriculture

Partnership between the African Union Commission and the WFP Centre

Social Protection andFood & Nutritional Security

in Brazil

Official language: Portuguese

Independence: 1822

Area: 8,5 million km² (5th)

Population: ~200 million people (5th)

Density: 23,8/km² (190th)

GDP: ~USD 3 trillion (7th)

Per capita: USD 15,153 (77th)

Federal Constitution: 1988 (“local constitutions” are established by each state and municipality abiding by the national constitution)

Tripartite branches: executive, legislative and judiciary.

Federative entities: the Union, 26 states, the Federal District and 5,570 municipalities.

Elections for president, governors and mayors.

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The Brazilian federative republic

Executive power structure• The Union, states and municipalities are

federative entities with autonomy and shared responsibilities defined in the Constitution

• The Federal Government organizes public sectors in ministries: Health, Social Development, Labour etc.; states and municipalities tend to mirror the federal structure within their secretaries (the ministries’ counterparts at state and municipal levels)

• Taxes revenue is shared between federative entities as established in the Constitution; states and municipalities receive regular transfers and have taxes of their own

• Besides, these entities also receive extra transfers linked to specific policies, such as social policies, school feeding, investments in infrastructure and education

Federal Level

State Level

Municipal Level

26 States + 1

Federal district

5,570 municipali

ties

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The BrazilianSocial Protection policy

The Union, states and municipalities have shared responsibilities as defined in the Constitution

The Constitution defines social protection as: social insurance; health; and social care.

Universal and free-of-charge public services for education and health are mandatory. They are coordinated by the federal government and executed by states and municipalities with considerable autonomy and shares responsibilities

Public units for primary health care, hospitals, educational institutions from primary to university levels exist throughout the country -- with challenges of coverage

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Income Improvement• Professional qualification

programme – Pronatec• Productive inclusion

(eased individual micro-entrepreneur registration and Solidary (Fair Trade) Economy coops.)

• Targeted and assisted microcredit for production

• Regional participatory mechanisms for local development

Access to food• Alleviation of poverty – Conditional

Cash Transfer• National School Feeding Programme –

PNAE• Distribution of micronutrients (Vit. A, Iron

etc.)

• Delivery of food baskets for vulnerable pops.

• Nutrition monitoring systems• FNS public facilities – public

restaurants,community kitchens, food banks, markets

• Water for consumption & production– Cisterns Programme

Strengthening smallholder

farmingEased financing, rural

insurance and crop insurance

– PRONAF Programme

Access to markets– PAA Food Acquisition

Programme

Coordination & Civil Society Participation

Citizen oversight through councils

(Food and Nutrition Security, School Feeding, others at all gvt. levels)

Citizenship education and social mobilization

Partnerships with enterprises and entities

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FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY + FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Seeds bank

(crioulas and

standard)

Emergencies

Distribution of food baskets

SocialCare

Public schools

Public restaura

nts

Govt. acquisiti

on

Access to credit

Tech. assistanc

e and training (ATER)

Food processin

g

Access to insurances and

warranty

Smallholder

farmingIndividualCooperativ

esAssociation

s

FoodFresh

HealthyDiverse

NutritiousValuing localcultures

Sustainable Agriculture

Official “aptitude statement” granted to smallholder farmers

DAP

Centre’s partnership for HGSF

Outcome• 26 countries drafted an action plan after Dialogue and Study Visit (D&S) mission to Brazil:

• 21 countries intend to adopt HGSF; • 6 countries included HGSF in their School Feeding policies/strategies.

Partnership• Facilitated the foundation of the African School Feeding Framework;• Member of the Latin America School Feeding Network (RAE);• Co-organizer of the Global Child Nutrition Forum (this year gathered 39 countries

delegations in Sal, Cape Verde);• Co-organized National Consultations on school feeding in West Africa Region;• Funded the participation of 5 countries to the Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social

Protection Programs in Moscow, Russia (September, 2015).

Thank you!