Publications

Findings and recommendations to inform new policies and country strategic plans

An overview of WFP’s role as the world’s leading humanitarian organization both saving and changing lives in the year it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The joint WFP-IOM report highlights the close interconnection between hunger, conflict, migration and displacement, which has been further aggravated by COVID-19. The study explores the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods, food security and protection of migrant workers households dependent on remittances and the forcibly displaced. Using the latest available data, the report highlights food security trends in some of the major migration and hunger hotspots across the world. The key findings have informed joint recommendations put forward by both agencies to mitigate the immediate negative effects on mobile and displaced populations, while preparing the pathway to recovery.

The Social Cohesion surveys were conducted between 2017 and 2019. They indicated a deterioration in the social cohesion between the refugees and the host communities in Turkey.

Almost three years into the crisis, the market situation in and around the camps has changed substantially. This assessment identifies how markets can fulfil the demand for essential needs required on a regular, seasonal, or exceptional basis by households for ensuring survival and minimum living standards.

World Food Programme (WFP) Myanmar Country Office (CO) commissioned a mid-term evaluation of its relief food and cash assistance for conflict-affected people.

With the scale up of cash transfers in refugee settlements to improve dignity and impact benefits to the people we serve, there is a need to intensify financial literacy initiatives. Financial inclusion and financial literacy among refugee settlements and host communities is imperative as most development partners in Uganda are moving to cash transfer programming. Increasing the financial capability of refugees and refugee hosting communities and ensuring that they are better equipped to make sound financial decisions, as well as helping them effectively interact with financial service providers and achieve their financial goals, is why the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Uganda came together to develop a financial education training toolkit customized to the needs of migrant populations in Uganda building on existing learning and resources developed thus far.

The Uganda Vulnerability Refugee Assessment provides a comprehensive picture of vulnerability among refugee families and the socio-economic dynamics in the settlements. The study was commissioned by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Government of Uganda.

The data collection was conducted in October 2017 to cover a total of 18 settlements across ten districts.

The COVID-19 submission for refugees from Western Sahara in camps in Algeria presents the strategy to respond to the public health needs and immediate humanitarian consequences of the epidemic in other sectors including education, food security, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). This strategy aligns the collective efforts of the humanitarian community, including UN humanitarian agencies and I/NGOs to support the refugee community in managing the impact of COVID-19. This submission seeks to mobilize support to implement the most urgent and critical activities over the next three months, and sometimes beyond, in exceptional cases.

The effects of unrestricted cash transfers on Syrian Refugee households.

WFP in Cox's Bazar - An integrated protection approach.

To better understand and assess the overall situation of migrants and affected host communities in Libya, WFP and the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collaborated to collect information through a mixed-methods’ approach.

More than two years into the Rohingya refugee response, WFP’s assistance serves the most vulnerable 900,000 refugee and host population which is critical to ensuring sustainable peace and development.

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

A lifeline of hope.
Since 2012, the World Food Programme (WFP) has provided refugees in Lebanon with food assistance, first with food parcels, then paper vouchers and now with e-cards.

This report provides new data and analysis to generate a better and updated understanding on the trends, drivers and impacts that migration has created so far, with a focus
on rural vulnerability.