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WFP participated at a global level in the various meetings and initiatives led by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Sub-Working Group on Gender and Humanitarian Action (IASC). This includes contributions to the development and facilitation of an E-learning course on GBV risk mitigation and prevention and inviting the IASC colleagues to participate in WFP led webinars.
WFP celebrated both Orange Days as well as the 16 Days Campaign against GBV, in collaboration with the other Rome-based agencies (FAO and IFAD).Extensive webinars and events were held with various member states, ambassadors, and key actors from other agencies.
In 2020,WFP continued to advocate for dedicated financial and human resources for country offices to be able to integrate protection and gender. WFP maintained humanitarian advisors at the regional bureau level, dedicated protection and gender officers in selected countries and at the HQ/global level a gender office, a protection and AAP team and a PSEA team. WFP also advocated for the allocation of funding to meet GBV survivor food security and nutrition needs and mitigate the adoption of negative coping mechanisms.
WFP also continued to actively participate in the GBV the GBV Accountability Framework and the Call to Action on Protection from GBV and multiple for a related to promoting gender equality. At the national level WFP participated in the GBV sub-cluster.
WFP also continued to participate in relevant global UN/interagency coordination on PSEA.
WFP updated its corporate results framework in 2019. Through 2020 WFP worked with a variety of actors to document the ways in which WFP activities and operations can contribute to GBV mitigation and strengthen its evidence base on the relationship between GBV, nutrition and food security. These initiatives will inform the corporate result framework update in 2021.
Working with FAO and the GBV Accountability Framework to develop a proposal with a global focus. The proposal provides a working framework for regional bureaux and country office on how to engage with GBV actors and seeks to document good practices that contribute to GBV risk mitigation.
Collaboration between WFP and SIPRI with a focus on GBV and conflict. The objective of this research is to understand to what extent WFP has taken steps to integrate the WPS agenda through its programming and the effects thereof, in order to enhance WFP’s design and delivery of programming that are gender equitable. The research will inform WFP’s understanding of conflict- and gender-related analysis and resulting specific country needs, and how to address these through WFP’s Country Strategic Plans. Further, it will provide ground for building WFP’s ability to define its role in inter-agency commitments to conflict-, security- and gender-related issues, in line with a particular support to the women, peace and security agenda.
WFP also launched the “Gender Equality for Food Security” (GE4FS) measure. The GE4FS measure is a globally applicable instrument that looks at the interconnectedness of dis/empowerment and food in/security. The GE4FS measure combines the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) and a gender equality component. The gender equality component is a set of 18 questions exploring five dimensions of personal empowerment. It is important to have this data because gender and food – and the associated inequalities and insecurities – are two elements of the daily lives of all persons. 17 countries participated in this exercise.