WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger
How do we work?
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.
August 2015
The WFP Centre of Excellence
Advocate and
Promote School
Feeding
Solutions
Provide
Training and
Capacity
Development
Opportunities
Provide Direct
Technical
Assistance
Promote
Research and
Innovative
Global
Knowledge
L O N G - T E R M CO N T I N U O U S S U P P O RT FO R CO U N T R I ES
South-South
cooperation
governments lead
(capacity-building and facilitation)
g o v e r n m e n t ’s e n g a g e m e n t
demand-driven
(no ready-made solutions)
Continuous capacity-building support
High-level technical advice & dialogue
Knowledge exchange
- Priority to peer-to-peer
policy dialogue
Engagement
- Demand-driven:
requests by
governments start
the process
- Commitment
between parties
- 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
WFP Centre in Brazil
Support in country/region
- Advice & support on
strategic issues (e.g.
Facilitation missions
- Support conferences,
trainings, workshops and
cross-sector consultations
- Support government-led
design of policies
conference calls, meetings)
- Analysis and inputs for
key documents, such as
policy drafts
Expert consultancy
- Research and analysis
- In-depth technical
inputs in Food and
support: cost analysis,
Nutrition Security, school
diagnostics,
feeding, social protection
implementation planning
and related subjects
evidence-based and multidimensional approach + knowledge platforms
The WFP Centre in pictures
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.
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 nationallyowned, 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 .
Partnership between the African Union
Commission and the WFP Centre
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
Social Protection and
Food & 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.
August 2015
The Brazilian
federative republic
Executive power structure
Federal
Level
State
Level
26 States +
1 Federal
district
• 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
Municipal
Level
5,570
municipalities
• Besides, these entities also receive extra transfers linked to
specific policies, such as social policies, school feeding,
investments in infrastructure and education
August 2015
The Brazilian
Social 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
August 2015
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
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
•
Strengthening
smallholder farming
Eased 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
F OOD AND N UTRITIONAL S ECURITY + F OOD S OVEREIGNTY
Access to
credit
DAP
Official
“aptitude
statement”
granted to
smallholder
farmers
Smallholder
farming
Tech.
assistance
and training
Individual
Cooperatives
Associations
(ATER)
Public
schools
Public
restaurants
Food
processing
Access to
insurances
and
warranty
Sustainable
Agriculture
Govt.
acquisition
Social
Care
Emergencies
Distribution
of food
baskets
Seeds bank
(crioulas and
standard)
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!