World Food Programme (WFP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

WFP DRC has responded to many particularly complex humanitarian crises in recent years. WFP has thus had to respond to the needs of displaced populations (e.g. conflicts in Kasai, Ituri, North Kivu) and refugees (e.g. conflicts in the Central African Republic), the Ebola crisis (in the east of the country) and the overall deterioration of malnutrition indicators in the country. In parallel, WFP has developed interventions to strengthen the resilience of small producers and enhance local value chains. As of January 2019, the total number of beneficiaries in the country over the reporting period was 11.7 million.

Led by the NGO Action Against Hunger (AAH), in partnership with SalvaTerra, the independent evaluation of WFP’s Strategic Plan targeted all projects carried out in the country between January 2017 and June 2019. The objective of the evaluation was to take stock and draw lessons from the strategy and interventions, report to contributors and make recommendations for the next Strategic Plan currently under development.

As part of this strategic evaluation, SalvaTerra was specifically responsible for analyzing issues associated with resilience programming as well as strategic positioning and operations in refugee camps. A field mission took place for 3 weeks at the end of 2019. The (confidential) report submitted to WFP provides a detailed assessment of the Strategic Plan 2017-2019 and a series of recommendations for further action.