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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3 4
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!