WFP is boosting resilience at scale in the Sahel by restoring land, building community infrastructure, promoting education, improving nutrition and health, and creating jobs for women and young people in the G5 Sahel countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. More than 2.5 million people benefited from activities only during the first half of 2022 and over 158,000 hectares of land were rehabilitated by Sahelians since 2018.
The programme is already demonstrating positive outcomes in terms of food security, economic empowerment, natural regeneration, nutrition, access to social services, reduction of negative coping mechanisms and daily hardships, as well as social cohesion. Most importantly, beneficiaries’ food security remained stable or improved in most countries and years despite the various shocks and stressors affecting the region and an increasingly difficult context marked by a deterioration of food security.
