Overview : The UN in Malawi established a dedicated window in the One Fund, entitled the Right to Food Window, and administered by UNDP with funding from the Government of Flanders. The goal of this Window is to advance the agenda on the right to food. The R2F Window aims to follow up on the recommendation made to the Government of Malawi by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, with a view to encouraging and supporting the Government of Malawi and other stakeholders in their effort to effectively implement the right to adequate food. The UN Special Rapporteur, in alia, recommended that the Government of Malawi: (a) establish a framework law on the right to food, with a view to ensuring inter-sectorial coordination, transparency, accountability, and inclusiveness, involving non-governmental stakeholders in policy-making; (b) integrates a gender perspective into food and nutrition security strategies and programmes; (c) improves mechanisms and methodologies for the collection of adequately disaggregated data on poverty and food insecurity; (d) reforms agricultural support programmes, bearing in mind (i) the links between agriculture, nutrition and health; and (ii) the need to promote environmentally sustainable agriculture and to do so in a way which also benefits the poorest and most vulnerable farmers; (e) ensures a living wage for all workers, including casual/seasonal workers; (f) strengthens oversight of compliance with labour legislation, the protection of vulnerable workers, and efforts to combat child labour in agriculture; (g) Ensures adequate protection against land grabbing and forced displacement, giving specific attention to the obstacles faced by women; (h) scales up and improve targeting of social protection schemes, moving away from ad hoc programmes and towards a comprehensive national schemes; (i) scales up school feeding programmes to achieve full national coverage, and source food for such programmes locally to create synergies with efforts to promote smallholder food production; (j) ensures access to adequate food in prisons; (k) takes measures to curb illicit financial flows, including by joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and to ensure adequate taxation of companies operating in the country. In order to achieve this, the R2F Window have funded Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to carry out upstream policy work focusing on duty bearers at national level and downstream policy work focusing rights holders group village levels. Such activities raise awareness on the right to food principles, address existing policy challenges in terms of how they are aligned to the right to food and monitor the implementation of relevant policies, strategies, and programmes. Issues of gender, climate change and child headed householdswere to be mainstreamed in the Window. Climate related issues and their effect on the availability, access, adequacy and stability of food supplies were to be analysed and in particular, their impact on gender related issues and child headed households assessed in order to progress a right to food for all.� The R2F Window outcomes, outputs, and activities will all be aligned with the key elements of the right to food namely: availability, accessibility, adequacy and stability. The Window was to support five (5) outcomes in the five years of implementation as follows: a) Research and analytical work on strategies, policies, and programmes on food and nutrition security with the view to ensure better alignment with the right to food agenda; b) National debates and dialogues to advocate and build awareness on the right to food policies, strategies, and programmes; c) Group villages progressively enjoy the right to food by effectively holding duty bearers to account; d) CSOs and Government based monitoring and evaluation framework for tracking progress on implementation of strategies, policies, and programmes on the right to food is functional and strengthened; and e) Capacity building on the basics of the right to food; strategies and policies; policy research and analytical techniques, monitoring and evaluation techniques enhanced with CSOs and Government bodies. - Purpose of the evaluation
In accordance with the the Right to Food Window programme document, it is a requirement to conduct an end of Window evaluation. The purposes of the end-line evaluation will be to: - Determine the extent to which the outcome and outputs of the window have been achieved;
- Assess UN’s contribution to the outcome of the project;�
- Document the achievements, good practices and lessons learnt during the course of implementation of the overall project to inform the possible future direction of the window in Malawi.
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