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The partnership between WFP and Sahel University Network (REUNIR) promotes resilience research in the field. This book synthesizes some of the work done by students in the five Sahelian countries...

This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to WFP’s effective positioning and contribution within this space. This brief explores...

WFP is a leader in promoting sovereign insurance products that can offer rapid finance to affected communities in the event of major disaster. By connecting climate and disaster risk financing...

This document shows how WFP’s global framework for food systems transformation is adapted to the context of the Western Africa region. This document shows how WFP’s global framework...

Food systems around the world are failing to deliver food security, good nutrition, and equitable livelihoods for millions of people, making them more vulnerable to shocks...

A review of the WFP and UNICEF pioneered “twin-track approach”, with support from German development cooperation (BMZ-KFW), to deliver shock-responsive social protection in the Sahel. This note outlines and analyses a...

9 key outcomes on how WFP’s Integrated Resilience Programme in the Sahel improves food security and strengthens livelihoods in the face of shocks and stressors. WFP is committed to...

WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food insecure populations. In 2021, WFP protected over 2.7 million people in 19 countries with climate...

While smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to 90 percent of food production in some countries, often systems in the region do...

Climate risk insurance enables vulnerable people to cope with climate shocks — supporting smallholder farmers to absorb the effects of failed harvests, and governments and humanitarian agencies...