Findings from these strategic evaluations were cross referenced and validated against seven WFP operation evaluations and the inter-agency humanitarian evaluation of the typhoon Haiyan response.
The evaluations found that WFP's EPR strengthening and coordination activities were highly relevant and contributed to positive results and WFP has made relevant investments in EPR.
In October 2016, WFP started phone surveys to key informants throughout the country. Red Cross Volunteers in 55 communes are called on a monthly basis to collect information on the food security situation.
The Food Security Monitoring Technical Guidance Sheets (TGS) are part of a wider project to strengthen food security monitoring. The objective is to have light but comprehensive nationally - led monitoring systems that rapidly inform decision-makers of the trends in food and nutrition security and flag deteriorating situations.
In September 2016, WFP Central African Republic (CAR) started data collection for food security monitoring using the mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) approach.
Occasional Papers are prepared by various WFP offices as background or reference materials ultimately leading to discussions around policy and programme activities.
Reflecting on a record year for emergencies
Flexible funding has never been more essential to the work of the World Food Programme.
In 2019 the agency dealt with a record number of emergencies — 8 at the highest level of 3, and 12 at Level 2 — fuelled chiefly by conflict and climate change.
Conflicts in Yemen and Syria raged on, with millions displaced and facing chronic food insecuri