The WFP Centre of Excellence launched a new publication that gathers five papers about social protection in African countries. Called “Case studies on social protection and food and nutrition security”, the publication promotes knowledge sharing and diffusion of a wide range of tested policies and experiences on how social protection initiatives can contribute to increasing food and nutrition security.
The WFP Centre of Excellence commissioned the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), based in South Africa, to analyse the cases of Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zambia. From a holistic and systems approach, the case studies have found evidence that cash transfers, home-grown school feeding programmes and input subsidies, amongst other programmes, improved access, availability, stability, and utilisation of food for these countries.
Based on this analysis, the Centre seeks to identify pathways on how partnerships for development can promote South-South knowledge and policy exchange, and support these five African countries in improving the design and implementation of social protection programmes for food and nutrition security. The discussion papers culminate in a series of suggested ways forward.
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