WFP - EXPO Milan 29 may 2015 WFP’s Contribution to Empowering Rural Women: Improving Results

Hunger Map 2014

WFP’s Global Presence

WFP doesn’t just feed hungry people, but provides hunger solutions to help women and men to build prosperous communities so they won’t 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

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. WFP’s Goal: A World with Zero Hunger

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

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)

School meals Examples of Zero hunger This is Sumi, in Bangladesh (Element 2: Access to adequate food)

This is Kolastica, with her three daughters, in Uganda. (Element 4: increase in smallholder productivity) Help for poor farmers Examples of Zero hunger

From a WFP perspective WFP’s Enhancement Commitments to Women From a food security and nutrition perspective improvement in rural women’s 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?

 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 Women’s empowerment How WFP helps people cope with crisis?

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 woman’s name provide food for families and are used to tackle hunger. Food Security and Nutrition

WFP cash grant to empower women’s 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.

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.

Tripled women’s 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

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

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in 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 WFP’s Responses to Climate Change focus on Empowering Women

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?

Dashboard Burundi crisis SADD Makes a Difference in Targeting More Effectively

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