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Multiple interventions are underway to counter environmental degradation, food and nutrition insecurity, and intensifying climate change. Asset creation supports these efforts through infrastructure and ecological design.
Multiple interventions are underway to counter environmental degradation, food and nutrition insecurity, and intensifying climate change. Asset creation supports these efforts through infrastructure and ecological design.
Individuals and Households
Interventions designed to support individuals and households include ecosystem restoration, nutrition support packages, school feeding programs, smallholder support, and seasonal safety nets. Nutritional supplement packages are provided as needed, and home gardens and small livestock are encouraged and supported, when appropriate.
School food programs address socioeconomic inequities by providing meals to every child by procuring local vegetables from home gardens and cereals from cooperatives. Intense heat and lack of precipitation in periodic “lean seasons” (typically between June-August) requires food assistance until local food production rebounds. Flooding also requires similar support.
Unconditional food assistance is provided in universally dire situations, while conditional food assistance is offered when needs vary by individual and family.
Community and Ecosystems
Community-Based Participatory Planning (CBPP) is an ongoing process that constantly incorporates results and feedback into programming to ensure maximum positive impact. Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) addresses immediate food needs through cash, vouchers, or food transfers, while simultaneously building or rehabilitating assets that will improve long-term food security and resilience, such as half-moons, polders, stone bunds, dams, and other water retention structures.
FFA activities aim to create healthier natural environments, reduce the risks and impact of climate shocks, increase food productivity, and strengthen resilience to disasters over time. Smallholder Agriculture Market Support (SAMS) begins as FFA initiatives mature and boost food production and economic opportunities through the development of reliable roads, bridges, enhanced transportation, food storage and processing, distribution, and markets. Social safeguards are also consistently reviewed and revised in the CBPP process.
Systems
Building for resilience requires food systems that meet immediate and short-term needs, while providing networks and infrastructure that reduce the need for extensive outside support over the long-term. Resilient food systems are inherently complex, especially in isolated and ecologically challenging areas like the Tandou Valley.
Partnerships provide critical resources for solutions that address the building of resilient food systems within an ecologically-degraded landscape. Leveraging technical expertise from national agencies and creating networks of university experts ensures the long-term trajectory and resilience of WFP projects.
Emergency preparedness is also critical in ensuring that the interventions and assets put into place can withstand systemic shocks stemming from natural disasters and human-generated crises. Climate risk reduction plays an important role in these considerations.
Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF)
The Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF) focuses on six ecological benefits: air, water, soil, biodiversity, equity, and carbon. These ecological benefits are fundamental to the work of the World Food Programme. EBF puts food, nutrition, and equity into a place-based context that shows the integral relationships between ecosystems, food systems, and food security.
Using a peer-reviewed collection of Lex Icons, EBF provides a common language and visual interface for expressing the impacts of WFP projects, at local, regional, and international scales.
About
The Greening platform is produced by The Lexicon with support from the World Food Programme. The World Food Programme is scaling resilience in the Tandou Valley and other communities across the five countries in the Sahel. The Resilience Monitoring and Measurement framework shows positive outcomes in ecological restoration, food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, access to social services, reduction of daily hardships, and social cohesion.
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Lexicon of Impacts is based on the Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF). This new paradigm provides a foundational architecture to radically transform global carbon, biodiversity, and ecological benefits markets. Coordinating financial institutions, UN agencies, NGOs, companies, and catalytic capital will bring attention to—and help create—a shared pathway for accelerated solutions, providing economic support for the people and projects that need it most.
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Social Safeguards
WFP programs include contingency plans for unforeseen circumstances. Ecosystem fragility, intensifying droughts and floods, heightening internal conflicts, a burgeoning refugee population, and unforeseen geopolitical consequences combine to create a cloud of uncertainties in Chad. As a result, social safeguards are established to confront unexpected situations and protect the health and well-being of all community members, including transient pastoralist groups.
These social safeguards for projects such as the Tandou Valley include emergency food assistance, distribution of nutrition provisions, and natural disaster mitigation preparedness. Meeting the needs of “internally displaced persons” – refugees from other countries and cultures, often without a social safety net or a means of income –can be particularly difficult in unanticipated situations. Developing early warning systems and anticipatory actions is critical to mitigating the impacts of unexpected events.