This report is a product of the first phase of the Social Protection Learning Facility partnership and focuses on lessons learned from WFP’s work in 2020 that are important for the social protection sector in the East Africa region going forward.
The study reviews and analyses the inclusion of migrants into social protection systems in the context of the Covid-19 crisis and provides a set of policy recommendations to build more inclusive systems.
These reports are part of a series of scoping studies on Social Protection and Safety Nets for Enhanced Food Security and Nutrition in the Central Asia Region commissioned by the World Food Programme in partnership with the University of Maastricht in 2017.
In answering the question, “what factors enable social protection systems and programmes in ASEAN countries to be responsive to shocks and to deliver an effective response?” this study presents the findings for two ASEAN countries: Thailand and Lao PDR.
This publication provides an analysis of the state of school feeding in 2020, describes the impact of COVID-19 on school feeding around the world and presents what can be done to restore this global safety net.
Impressions from the Sahel integrated resilience programme. WFP is scaling-up investments to build community assets, promote education, improve nutrition and health, and create jobs for youth in five Sahelian countries.
Highlights of the World Food Programme’s Contributions to Social Protection in a New Normal
This report looks at WFP’s work in social protection after a tumultuous year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a collection of 10 country examples, it unpacks how WFP’s long-term support to governments enabled better social protection.
A brief on the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses in both rural and urban contexts in East Africa.
This brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on building the resilience of households to climate-related shocks and stresses in East Africa.
This brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses to displacement in East Africa.
WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and a trajectory of working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes. This factsheet provides an overview on school feeding programmes and their impact in 2020.
Through this joint statement UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO are calling on global leaders to act now and invest in school health and nutrition in national and global COVID-19 recovery plans.
This document highlights key facts as well as some good practices from the members of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) in the thematic areas of education; food security and nutrition; health; access to and control over land and other productive resources; leadership, decision-making and public life; social protection and services; care and domestic work; gender-based violence; and resilience in the context of climate change and fragility.
The World Food Programme’s World Hunger Series was created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders and focuses on practical strategies to achieve an end to hunger.
Occasional Papers are prepared by various WFP offices as background or reference materials ultimately leading to discussions around policy and programme activities.
This document is a supplement to the Framework for reopening schools, originally published by UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, WFP, and UNHCR and provides practical guidance on how to reopen schools.