WFP - EXPO Milan 29 may 2015 WFPs Contribution to Empowering
Rural Women: Improving Results
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Hunger Map 2014
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WFPs Global Presence
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WFP doesnt just feed hungry people, but provides hunger
solutions to help women and men to build prosperous communities so
they wont need food assistance in the future. WFP puts women at the
centre of its efforts to fight hunger and malnutrition. WFP saves
lives through fast, efficient and effective emergency response
World Food Programme
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The UN Zero Hunger Challenge is a global call-to-action
launched by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon based on a
conviction that hunger can be eliminated in our lifetimes. WFPs
Goal: A World with Zero Hunger
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Zero stunted children less than 2 years Hunger Can Be
Eliminated in Our Lifetimes 5 key elements in the ZHC vision Zero
Hunger means Zero loss or waste of food 100% access to adequate
food all year round All food systems are sustainable 100% increase
in smallholder productivity and income
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Nutrition support Where WFP contributes most under Zero Hunger?
Three Routes to Zero Hunger This is Mylande, in Haiti with her 2-
year-old son Michael (Element 1: Zero stunted children)
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School meals Examples of Zero hunger This is Sumi, in
Bangladesh (Element 2: Access to adequate food)
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This is Kolastica, with her three daughters, in Uganda.
(Element 4: increase in smallholder productivity) Help for poor
farmers Examples of Zero hunger
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From a WFP perspective WFPs Enhancement Commitments to Women
2003-2007. From a food security and nutrition perspective
improvement in rural womens representation at the local level is as
significant as a representation in national parliament. Decision
Making: Key to Rural Women Empowerment Why WFP works with Rural
Women?
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School feeding (SF) Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) Cash and
Vouchers (C&V) Purchase for Progress (P4P) Food for Work (FFW)
Food for Training (FFT) Supplementary Feeding Programme (SFP) Where
WFP contributes most to Rural Womens empowerment How WFP helps
people cope with crisis?
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To achieve food security and nutrition WFP has to apply a
gender lens that factors in economic opportunity analysis for women
and men. Cash and Vouchers in womans name provide food for families
and are used to tackle hunger. Food Security and Nutrition
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WFP cash grant to empower womens decision making and
entrepreneurship Philippines: Parent Volunteers in Dolores, Cash
Assistance Parent leaders Helen and Ondith, from Dolores, received
unconditional cash grant. In addition to food, families such as
those of Ondith and Helen, also received a cash grant of Php 2,600
(US$58.33) for a total of 6,700 families.
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WFP food vouchers Fleeing Family Enjoys Taste of Home in
Northern Iraq WFP food vouchers gives Iraqi IDPs, like Hanaa
Moussa, the ability to choose what their families are going to eat.
Now, the Moussa family is among the first in the area to receive a
monthly WFP voucher worth 30,000 Iraqi dinars (US$25) per person
that can be exchanged for food at designated shops nearby.
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Tripled womens participation in P4P- supported farmers
organizations. In 20 countries, impacted some 300,000 rural women.
In the past 5 years P4P has: Purchase for Progress
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Efforts to empower rural women are being strengthened through a
joint UN project with UNWomen, WFP, FAO and IFAD. The extensive
networks and experience brought by P4P provided a powerful platform
to jointly empower rural women in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Liberia,
Nepal, Niger, Kyrgyzstan and Rwanda. Accelerating Progress towards
the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women (RWEE) Joint UN initiative
to Empower Rural Women
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WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience
Initiative in 2011. To empower both women and men farmers and to
increase their food and income security in increasing climate
risks. Result: Women achieved the largest gains in productivity.
Their investments in agriculture increased more than male-headed
households. Smallholder Farmers and Refugees WFPs Responses to
Climate Change focus on Empowering Women
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Your Sex and age influence how you see life, problems, your
vulnerabilities, capacities, how you have access to information,
opportunities and services, and how you can cope with crisis. WFP
is improving its approach to respond in a concrete and specific way
to women and men, girls and boys different needs. In particular
during Crisis: Why is Sex and Age Disaggregated Data
Important?
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Dashboard Burundi crisis SADD Makes a Difference in Targeting
More Effectively
