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Standard Project Report 2016
Annual Food Purchases for the Country (mt)
Commodity
Local
Chickpeas
Regional/International
Total
- 66 66
640 - 640
31 88 119
Total 671 154 825
Percentage 81.3% 18.7%
Rice
Split Peas
Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations and Lessons
Learned
WFP's Office of Evaluation commissioned an external team to conduct an independent mid-term evaluation of
Development Project 200300 to provide accountability, learning, and evidence-based findings to inform operational
and strategic decision-making. The timing of the evaluation allowed the findings to guide the WFP programme
phase-out in December 2018, when WFP food support to schools will have ended. The main evaluation questions
were: i) how appropriate is the operation?, ii) what are the results of the operation?, and iii) why and how has the
operation produced the observed results?
The evaluators' methodology included a secondary data review and a field visit, interviews with officials at the
national, district, and school level. The country office coordinated the evaluation by providing all relevant documents
to the evaluation team and arranging appointments with stakeholders for the interviews.
The main recommendation that emerged from the evaluation was to re-calibrate WFP Bhutan's strategic and
operational direction through a number of planned actions:
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Review the nutritional composition of the food basket of the school feeding programme—with support from WFP
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific and in collaboration with the Ministries of Education and Health, the
country office started the process of a programmatic assessment to better understand what is provided in
school meals and estimate the quantities of food consumed and its nutrient quality in the school feeding
programme.
Conduct a situational analysis for school feeding—the situational analysis for school feeding was carried out by
a local consultant. The draft report will be presented to the School Feeding Technical Committee and finalised.
The findings from the analysis will be used during a national level stakeholders' discussion to ultimately feed
into the development of a common comprehensive vision for the national school feeding programme.
Management of the School Feeding Technical Committee—the country office has increasingly engaged with the
Ministry of Education to take the lead in organising and coordinating the technical committee meetings and
activities, including following up on agreed actions. The ownership of the committee by government
stakeholders became stronger since its establishment in 2015. Many decisions on the operational
implementation of school feeding were taken and accepted.
A team from Kuehne Foundation visited Bhutan in May 2016 to assess the existing supply chain of the school
feeding programme. The team suggested piloting a few supply chain models to enhance its operational and
cost effectiveness. The report from the mission was presented to the School Feeding Technical Committee
where it was agreed to pilot two supply chain models in 2017 to identify logistical improvements to the supply
chain.
Bhutan, Kingdom of (BT)
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Development Project - 200300