The strategy articulates Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯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.
Today over 4.7 million people are food insecure of which over 900,000 are severely food insecure and over 3,700,000 are moderately food insecure. More than half a million people have been added to the count of food insecure people over the last five years. Over 3.3 million people are food insecure in rural areas compared to 1.4 million people in urban areas.
The European Union is one of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s essential partners. In 2020, they helped us scale up our operations to unprecedented levels, providing emergency and development funding to help us save and change lives across the globe. This report details our partnership.
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.
From June ¨C November 2020, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ piloted a new project in Damascus and Rural Damascus with the aim of supporting vulnerable Syrian families to improve their food security.
This report is a product of the first phase of the Social Protection Learning Facility partnership and focuses on lessons learned from Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work in 2020 that are important for the social protection sector in the East Africa region going forward.
The Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) Recipe Book 2021 Revision is supplementary material for the rehabilitation of MAM, developed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Philippines in collaboration with academia and key government agencies.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique recently piloted a nutrition-sensitive campaign designed to be implemented in parallel with cash-based-transfer programmes. It focuses on ability, motivation and opportunity as keystones for improving nutritional status. The SBCC strategy focuses on the main drivers of stunting in Mozambique: family feeding and gender dynamics; maternal health and nutrition; infant and young child feeding (IYCF); and sanitation and hygiene.
The information booklet provides an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-saving interventions in Cox¡¯s Bazar. It includes individual factsheets on each programme and sector, and is updated every quarter.
The United Nation Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have joined forces in a pioneering programme to help marginalised people in the conflict-stricken eastern Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working with the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS (DNHA) on strengthening local governance, leadership and management towards nutrition and domestic resourcing for nutrition.
To enhance synergies with existing investments, particularly in social protection, livelihoods and school meals, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is strengthening nutrition-sensitive prevention activities in 5 districts (Chikwawa, Phalombe, Balaka, Mangochi and Neno) in the Southern region.
The report is a summary of Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) initiatives and best practices undertaken by Â鶹ÊÓƵ in India between 2017-2020.
2020 was a challenging year for Â鶹ÊÓƵ in the Philippines, characterized by a series of emergencies and a nationwide lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, groundbreaking initiatives made 2020 a year of accomplishments as well. This visual report encapsulates Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s challenges and successful strides in the Philippines in 2020.
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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ in partnership with the University of Maastricht in 2017.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ piloted the implementation of Iron Fortified Rice through School Feeding in Maguindanao, Philippines. This report documents the results of the demonstrating the potential of Homegrown School Feeding as a model for scaled-up food fortification in BARMM and eventually in the whole country.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ launched an innovative research on social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) that aims to improve the nutrition situation in Maguindanao by addressing barriers which contribute to poor dietary practices in the region.
