Publications

WFP is scaling-up investments to build community assets, promote education, improve nutrition and health, and create jobs for young people in five countries of the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. The aim is to achieve transformative change by assisting 2 million people until 2023.

The decentralized mid-term evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Rwanda Country Office and covers the Home-Grown School Feeding Program 2016-2020, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program.

This catalogue showcases the diverse projects and products that visualise and analyse the areas where WFP works, created by the Geospatial Support Unit within the Emergency Division at WFP.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Sierra Leone is pleased to share a copy of the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) Report — officially launched on 16 October 2019 on World Food Day.

This Strategic Review is a product of the inclusive review process, a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced and the country’s institutional capacity to address them. The review also identifies priority actions to achieve SDG 2 “Zero Hunger.” These priorities inform the plans of national stakeholders and partners in Sierra Leone.

The Lead Convenor oversaw the whole process together with a fully-fledged technical research team. From 2017 to 2019, the review involved a wide range of national stakeholders, government ministries, departments and agencies, civil society members, private sector partners, donors, and international organizations.

WFP commends the leadership of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Sierra Leone for all their efforts.

WFP also expresses its sincere thanks to sister agencies, namely FAO and UNICEF, for also playing a big role in the process.

Mozambique is highly exposed to weather-related hazards and faces periodic cyclones, droughts and floods. With predicted 800,000 people in severe food insecurity in the 2018-19 lean season, DFID funded WFP and HelpAge to provide cash transfers or commodity vouchers to around 120,000 beneficiaries in Tete province. Two notable features were introduced in the intervention. The first was linking the lean season assistance with social protection, by involving national social security institutions and prioritizing recipients of routine social assistance programmes. The second feature was providing transfers through a ‘separation of functions’ approach, with programme implementation and accountability roles divided between WFP and HelpAge. The interventions also created an opportunity to develop lessons on the use of unconditional cash transfers - unlike other countries in the region, cash transfers have not been used in disaster response owing to government concerns about dependency, expectations, responsible spending and market access. After cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit Mozambique in March-April 2019, the breadth of the exercise was expanded to consider emerging issues on the planned use of social assistance for recovery.

This report is the result of a study commissioned by the World Food Programme in Mozambique and undertaken by an independent consultant, with financial support from the UK Department of International Development.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Sierra Leone has officially released its Food Security System (FSMS) Assessment Report. The complete findings was finalized in August 2019 and validated by representatives of the Food Security Working Group (FSWG) in September 2019.

The Assessment Report shows great concern in the food security situation in Sierra Leone and demonstrates significant increase in food insecurity amounting to now 53 percent nation-wide as opposed to 44 percent in 2018. At district level, food insecurity was highest in Bonthe, Kailahun, Tonkolili and Koinadugu.

WFP will continue to lead discussions on ground, together with the FSWG, to review the implications along with making immediate decisions on how food security partners can work together to address the needs.

Bhutan is vulnerable to a range of natural disasters, including floods, earthquakes and landslides.
The World Food Programme is working closely with the Government of Bhutan to prepare for and respond to disasters and support families to improve their food security.

The World Food Programme is working closely with the Government of Bhutan to help families across the country to improve their health, nutrition and agricultural production. From 2019 – 2023, WFP will use new technologies and rice fortification to reduce levels of malnutrition and help communities to eat more balanced diets.

WFP’s Caribbean Risk Financing Strategy aims to ensure that the most vulnerable populations in the Caribbean are better protected through social protection systems that are more shock-responsive due to predictable, rapid and flexible financing. Read this factsheet to learn more.

This policy brief outlines WFP’s role in ensuring social protection systems are inclusive of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV.

(Angola, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

The Mid-Year Operational Snapshot highlights WFP Aviation operations’ achievements in support of humanitarian response across the world during the first half of 2019.

This joint evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Mali Country Office and the FAO Office of Evaluation and covers the DEVCO funded Resilience project in northern Mali (2015-2018). It was carried out in 2018.

In Senegal, micronutrient deficiencies remain a major public health problem. To cope with this the Government of Senegal has included fortification as a major strategy in its Multisectoral Strategic Plan on Nutrition (PSMN) 2017-2021.

How the World Food Programme both prepares for and responds to emergencies.

Developed by WFP’s Office of Evaluation (OEV), this Impact Evaluation Strategy (2019-2026) describes how WFP can play a greater role in humanitarian and development impact evaluation, with the ambition of contributing operationally relevant evidence essential for policy making, learning and accountability, and with global significance to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This is a snapshot of current WFP’s energy activities globally to improve the performance of Food Systems in production, transformation, and consumption.