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.
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
Haiti faces severe food insecurity and gender inequality, with nearly half the population lacking adequate food and women especially vulnerable. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Food Assistance for Assets (FFA), also referred to as a cash for work programme, provided conditional cash transfers linked to community asset creation, with one variant specifically targeting women. A cluster randomized trial across 78 localities assessed impacts on food security and women¡¯s economic empowerment.
This impact evaluation examines the impacts of women¡¯s participation in Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programme in Kenya, where participants received cash transfers in return, on key outcomes including food security, consumption, time use, empowerment, intra-household agency and gender dynamics, and measures of wellbeing.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Madagascar¡¯s integrated resilience approach Under Strategic Outcome 3 of its Country Strategic Plan (2024-2028), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Madagascar is implementing a range of resilience-building activities in support of the Malagasy Government, aiming to equip targeted communities with productive, inclusive and sustainable food systems.
The Rural Rapid Transformation (RRT) Initiative is an integrated approach developed by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable rural communities, particularly in the arid regions of southern Madagascar.
Between 2020 and 2023, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Rwanda Country Office implemented the Sustainable Market Alliance and Asset Creation for Resilient Communities and Gender Transformation (SMART) programme. The programme aimed to contribute to community resilience through a package of support, including a stronger soil and water management asset base, livelihood strengthening and diversification, farmer organization capacity strengthening and access to inputs and markets, and social cohesion and gender transformation activities.
The evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP) for Mali.
The impact evaluation is intended to estimate the impacts of the UNICEF-Â鶹ÊÓƵ joint resilience programme on absorptive, adaptive, and transformative resilience capacities.
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.
The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked Central Asian country with 90 percent of the territory covered by high mountains and 67 percent of the population living in rural areas.?
Despite the country¡¯s great achievement in advancing sustainable development goals, high dependence on food imports and remittances, compounded by geopolitical instabilities and climate-induced disasters, continues to threaten the economic growth and nutrition of the most vulnerable population in the country.
Check out Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to reaching food- and nutrition-insecure people in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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.
The factsheet highlights key initiatives under Â鶹ÊÓƵ Kyrgyz Republic CSP's Strategic Outcome 1, encompassing projects such as FFA/FFT, unconditional food provision, awareness campaigns on healthy diets and gender-transformative practices and others.
