Ones Karuho
POLICY SEMINAR
Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger
Co-organized by IFPRI, World Food Programme (WFP), Institute for Peace and Development (IPD), and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM)
JUL 11, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT
6. People and communities
Participatory planning to ensure alignment
& needs.
Key Partnerships and collaborations
Partnerships with UN, NGO and other partners
Currently working with 80 cooperating partners on the ground.
Geographical convergence and complementary programming with UNICEF,
RBAs, NGO and technical partners.
Research network with academia in the region and beyond.
Governments & regional institutions
Governments at the driver’s seat.
MoU between RBAs and the G5 Sahel Executive Secretariat
to support coalition-building and implementation of their
resilience agenda.
MoU with the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall
(GGW), strong contribution to its objectives.
University Partnerships
Set up of the Sahel University
Network for Resilience
(REUNIR) and agreements
signed with 10 universities in
the G5 Sahel + Senegal to
link local research to
resilience on the ground.
7. Thank you for
your attention
wfp.org/publications/integrated-resilience-sahel
Editor's Notes
Taking a food systems approach, WFP strengthens linkages between production, conservation, processing and consumption. To pave the way towards resilient food systems and break the cycle of hunger, the programme focuses on:
Restoring ecosystems through asset creation activities to increase the production of local foods, safeguard biodiversity and reduce vulnerability to climate shocks.
Providing nutritious school meals to incentivize access to education and allow children to learn and perform better.
Delivering nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to treat and prevent malnutrition, address its underlying causes, and enable access to healthy diets.
Supporting smallholder farmers to reduce post-harvest losses, develop value chains, and increase access to markets.
Capacity strengthening of government institutions at all levels, local communities and academia to ensure sustainability, foster a network of resilience experts and build a new generation of talent.
Integrating lean season food/cash and nutrition support to safeguard resilience gains during the peak hunger period.
Synergies in the making – land rehabilitation, gardening, school feeding and nutrition activities, an support to smallholder farmers are integrated to leverage synergies and maximize impact. For instance, part of the produce from rehabilitated sites and gardens is used for the preparation of home-grown, nutritious school meals or nutrition activities.
Since 2018, over 200 Masters and PhD students have been supported through the Sahel University Network for Resilience (REUNIR) network, which allows for regional cooperation and knowledge sharing on resilience building for food and nutrition security. They conducted research on WFP-supported resilience activities and joined WFP sub-offices or Cooperating Partners personnel for internships.