Standard Project Report 2016
evaluations. The annual school assessment documented basic school characteristics and infrastructure statistics used to track programme investment and plan activities during the next school year. Provincial and district education authorities undertook regular site visits for oversight and provided assistance to school administrators where needed; results were discussed in quarterly sub-national coordination meetings.
Programme performance analysis also made considerable use of information captured in the national education management information system, compiled from individual school reports from all schools in the country.
Results from the assets and livelihoods programme were captured through pre- and post-activity monitoring surveys undertaken on a sample basis. In 2016 no pre-activity survey was undertaken due to preoccupation with the El Niño drought conditions in the country and associated impact assessment.
Results / Outcomes
Component 1: Education Strategic Objective 4: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger. Outcome: Increased equitable access to and utilisation of education. Activities: School meals, take-home rations and cash scholarships for pre-primary and primary school children.
WFP ' s school meals and scholarships have contributed to improved access to primary education with the current country programme building upon previous gains following 17 years of sustained focus on school feeding. According to the Government’ s education management information system, national net enrolment rates in primary schools have increased from 88 percent in 2002-2003 to 98.4 percent in 2015-2016 while dropout and promotion have continued to improve from 7 and 84 percent respectively in 2011-2012 to 5.2 and 89.4 percent in 2015-2016. Alongside aggregate improvements in educational indicators over time, current comparisons of indicators in WFP-assisted districts versus schools not supported by WFP also indicate the potential impact of the programme. Net admission and enrolment rates were better in WFP-assisted districts( 94.67 and 94.77 percent, respectively) when compared with un-assisted districts( 88.59 and 90.30 percent) nationally. The average dropout rate from all WFP-supported schools was 6.27 percent while from other schools was 6.77 percent. Retention rates in WFP-supported schools were also consistently high in 2015-2016- 97.1 and 96.1 percent for girls and boys respectively.
Outcome: Ownership and capacity strengthened to reduce undernutrition and increase access to education at regional, national and community levels
Activities: Strengthen government programme management capacity, information systems and policy and strategy platforms.
The National Capacity Index( NCI) increased by 1.5 points to 15( previously 13.5, rounded to 14). The increase reflects progress made in policy and institutional arrangements. In 2016, school meals and scholarships were recognised as key social assistance approaches in the preparation of the new social protection policy framework; school meals were recognised in the newly drafted school health policy; the development of a scholarships policy was initiated; and a pilot was developed for introduction of full day teaching including the provision of a cooked lunch. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport established a new dedicated office for scholarships which also oversees school meals.
Component 2: Nutrition Strategic Objective 4: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
Outcome: Ownership and capacity strengthened to reduce undernutrition and increase access to education at regional, national and community levels.
Activities: Strengthen government programme management capacity, information systems and policy and strategy platforms.
No separate NCI was maintained for WFP’ s nutrition support activities. Instead, WFP collaborated in the documentation of Cambodia’ s progress against the Scaling Up Nutrition( SUN) measure of institutional transformation in 2015-2016. Cambodia scored on average 50 percent in 2016 against 41.5 percent in 2015. The joint SUN constituencies scored best in the areas of‘ bringing people together into a shared space for action’( 59 percent) and‘ ensuring a coherent policy and legal framework’( 58 percent), while action was lagging behind in‘ aligning actions around a common results framework’( 48 percent) and‘ financing tracking and resource mobilisation’( 33 percent).
Component 3: Productive Assets and Livelihoods
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