The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Food Assistance for Assets programme helps vulnerable communities face climate shocks, by providing food or cash while they restore degraded ecosystems and rebuild small-scale infrastructure. Activities include water harvesting, irrigation, reforestation and flood protection, with the impact monitored via satellite data.
This brief presents key outcomes from the Cross-Country Learning and Knowledge Exchange on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection, convened in Islamabad by the Global Task Force on Social Protection for Nutrition (GTF) and hosted by the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Government of Pakistan and Government of Timor-Leste with facilitation from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). The South?South learning exchange served as a dialogue among countries committed to integrating nutrition outcomes into social protection systems. It built on the momentum of the Second World Summit for Social Development held in Doha on 4-6 November 2025 reinforcing the leadership of the Global South in shaping the nutrition-sensitive social protection agenda.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, communities and partners have restored over 335,000 hectares across the Sahel since 2018, transforming the lives of 4.2 million people in over 3,000 villages. This progress has improved food availability, nutrition and resilience against economic shocks ¨C reducing the need for humanitarian assistance.
This Sway document introduces the Sahel Resilience Partnership (SRP) and showcases its work through photos and videos from the field.
Financed by BMZ and jointly implemented by Â鶹ÊÓƵ, UNICEF, and GIZ, the SRP operates in Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad. The partnership strengthens food and nutrition security, climate resilience, ecosystem restoration, social services, and social cohesion, while promoting gender equality, disability inclusion, and youth empowerment
The evaluation of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s country strategic plan for the Niger for 2020¨C2025 was conducted between April 2024 and May 2025 and serves both accountability and learning purposes.
Annual Country Reports (ACR) are a key accountability document produced by country offices on a yearly basis which inform donors how their funds were used during the reporting year. Their purpose is to tell Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s performance story in an accurate, transparent and evidence-based manner by assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of our operations in our pursuit towards zero hunger.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is committed to scaling up Anticipatory Action programmes to protect more individuals before extreme weather events occur. This page showcases the Anticipatory Action activations throughout 2024, detailing the number of people reached and the specific anticipatory actions implemented in each country. These proactive measures aim to prevent or reduce the humanitarian impacts of predicted shocks, ensuring a faster, more cost-effective, and dignified response while protecting development gains.
An advocacy note on activating the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNICEF-pioneered ¡°twin-track approach¡± to deliver social cash transfers, looking to lessons learned from Niger following the July 2023 coup d¡¯¨¦tat.
The impact evaluation contributes to the Office of Evaluation's Climate & Resilience impact evaluation window. Also, through this impact evaluation, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and DIME are working together to complement other ongoing efforts and to guide future investments and activities related to resilience in The Sahel.
This decentralized evaluation was jointly commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Niger and UNICEF Niger and covers the UNICEF and Â鶹ÊÓƵ partnership for resilience and social cohesion in the region of Diffa, in Niger from July 2020 to April 2023. It was carried out between January 2022 to July 2024.
The paper emphasizes the need for sustainable financial solutions and collaborative efforts involving international financial institutions, donors and innovative financing schemes to bridge the funding gap and ensure the long-term success of school meal programmes in West Africa.
The landscape of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region has undergone significant evolution since the last assessment in 2020. The Landscape Analysis, prepared in May 2024 by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), ECOWAS and the School Meals Coalition, with the contribution of CERFAM and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, an Initiative of the School Meals Coalition, provides a comparative analysis across six domains, offering insights into the evolving dynamics, challenges, and best practices within the realm of HGSF. It serves also as a comprehensive resource for navigating the complexities and opportunities inherent in HGSF implementation across ECOWAS countries.
The partnership between Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s effective positioning and contribution within this space.
This publication aims to document recent trends ¨C and strategic implications ¨C with regards to the development of social registries and supporting digital information systems in the West and Central Africa region.
