Publications

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

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.

The RBC ‘Regional Advocacy Brief: Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection’ is a call for action advocating for nutrition-sensitive social protection, supporting the most vulnerable population in our region.

This document illustrates progress made by WFP over the six months since its socio-economic response to COVID-19.

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.

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)

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.

A strategy and rationale for scaling up nutrition-sensitive social protection to reduce child and maternal malnutrition in Asia.

A study on nutrition-sensitive social protection and its potential to enhance nutrition outcomes across the first 1,000 days in Central and Eastern Africa.

The publication promotes knowledge sharing and diffusion of a wide range of tested policies and experiences on how social protection initiatives can contribute to increasing food and nutrition security.

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.

The strategy articulates WFP’s approach to social protection and offers a coordinating framework that outlines how the organization will contribute deliberately and systematically to collective efforts to achieve long-term national social protection goals.

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.

Given the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition prevalent in the Southern African region, this paper analyses the role of food security and nutrition in social protection programming and in bridging the humanitarian- development divide using the COVID-19 experience of several countries in the region.

This second edition of the WFP Eastern Africa Regional eBook highlights and celebrates WFP work in Eastern Africa and demonstrates WFP capacities in various areas including: emergency preparedness and response, food system, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, and food security analysis.