WFP Centre of Excellence Against Hunger

About

WFP’s first Centre of Excellence was established in Brazil in 2011 as a as a global powerhouse of solutions for the defeat of hunger and malnutrition. Through solid South-South bridges to food security, the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil (WFP Brazil CoE) draws on experiences from Brazil and other countries with success cases to multiply knowledge and policy innovations among developing countries. Primarily focused on linking school feeding initiatives to local agriculture systems, WFP in Brazil provides technical assistance to national governments to design, improve, expand, and eventually run their own home-grown school feeding programmes and safety nets that are linked to food and nutrition promotion. 

Spearheading WFP’s South-South Cooperation delivery on the ground is at the heart of the Centre’s agenda, with the Sustainable Development Goals providing the political impetus. WFP Brazil CoE ensures that successful experiences in fighting hunger are made available to any country, especially developing countries, for inspiration, learning and adaptation, and more importantly: programme implementation, delivery and ownership. 

WFP Brazil CoE operates in the following areas: School Feeding; Nutrition; Social development; Smallholder farming; Commercial agriculture with Social Impact; Capacity Strengthening; and Food and Nutrition Security Research.

Objective

The WFP Centre of Excellence’s main objective is to bring together countries that face similar challenges in the areas of food and nutrition security, with a special focus on local purchases for school feeding programmes linked to family farming and nutrition. Both remotely and in person, it continuously strengthen government capacities in more than 15 countries to change people’s lives and eradicate hunger.