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12 quick facts about the World Food Programme

Occasional Papers are prepared by various WFP offices as background or reference materials ultimately leading to discussions around policy and programme activities.

The terms of reference of the evaluation aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.

This WFP study sought to explore how cash-based interventions (CBI) can contribute to achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment, as ends in themselves and for food security and nutrition outcomes.

With the growing global popularity of cash transfers as a modality for both humanitarian and
development assistance, the need to understand the impact of such interventions is becoming
increasingly important. Solid evidence, particularly in humanitarian and fragile settings, is needed to learn what works best, where and for whom. In collaboration with the Gender Office and Cash-Based Transfer Programme Teams, OEV has developed a new approach to build upon this research and support country offices to produce evidence that informs the design and implementation of cash programming: the Cash-based Transfers and Gender Impact Evaluation Window.

The effects of unrestricted cash transfers on Syrian Refugee households.

Supply Chain is the backbone of WFP operations, enabling it to be at the frontlines in the fight against hunger. With close to six decades of experience and expertise in humanitarian supply chain, WFP Supply Chain is critical to all aspects of the organization's operations, be it emergency response, capacity building, school feeding, nutrition or various other programmatic interventions.
This is made possible by an array of complex and diverse functions – spanning end-to-end planning, food procurement, goods and services procurement, food safety and quality, logistics, in-house shipping, aviation and cash-based transfers and markets – managed by WFP Supply Chain for the organization. Supply Chain also extends its expertise to partners and the wider humanitarian community, helping them to achieve their operational goals. Underpinning it all are 4,000 dedicated staff, often working in some of the most remote and challenging environments possible.
Divided by the different services and units comprising the division, this collection of factsheets clearly and succinctly describes all the activities that enable WFP Supply Chain's life-saving, life-changing work.

WFP's cash-based food assistance in Uganda.

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.

An overview of WFP’s role as the world’s leading humanitarian organization both saving and changing lives.

The Year in Review describes WFP’s actions and achievements in serving people’s emergency, recovery and development needs in 2018. It covers WFP’s provision of vital, common platforms and services for the humanitarian and development community.

WFP is a signatory to the Grand Bargain and was a member, through September 2017, of its Facilitation Group. WFP strongly supports the Grand Bargain and will continue to play a strategic and constructive role in the implementation of the commitments.

A new independent survey was commissioned by WFP to the consulting firm Alsah-L in December 2018 with a view to provide statistical evidence and measure the socio- economic benefits of WFP’s cash-based transfers interventions in Palestine. Using WFP electronic -vouchers was found to be more effective than in-kind assistance in improving people’s food security status, and trigger positive effects on sales, job creation and investment in the agro-industrial sector. Shop-owners, dairy producers, small-scale food production associations and cow farmers have been benefiting from additional market outlets and investing in their resilience with the support of WFP. The infographic summarizes the main findings of the study.

WFP Support to Emergency Preparedness and Response in Kenya.

WFP provides unconditional food assistance to almost 400,000 refugees in Kenya through a combination of in-kind and cash-based transfers. Since September 2018, 40 percent of cereals in the ration have been substituted by cash, in line with the vision of WFP’s Country Strategic Plan. Refugees are currently receiving 85 percent food ration as a result of funding constraints

This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Jordan Country Office and covers WFP’s General Food Assistance through unconditional cash transfers to Syrian Refugees in Jordan between January 2015 and June 2018. It was carried out in 2018.

This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Country Office for Kenya and covers the effects and a cost-benefit analysis of the General Food Distribution Cash Modality scale up (Cash Based Transfers for PRRO 200737) for refugees and host communities in Kenya from 2015 to 2017. It was carried out in 2018.