This updated resilience policy replaces the 2015 version, guiding WFP’s approach to strengthen resilience through targeted, multi-partner programming. It prioritizes high-risk communities exposed to recurrent shocks and focuses on empowering women, girls, and marginalized groups; improving livelihoods to enable people to better manage shocks and stressors; and strengthening and localizing capacities and systems to safeguard resilience gains before, during and in the aftermath of shocks.
WFP’s resilience work is based on its comparative advantages, including a deep-rooted presence and relationships in shock-exposed communities and countries and an ability to transition between humanitarian and resilience programming, deliver at scale, operate in challenging environments and leverage global and local supply chain capacities. Through its resilience portfolio, WFP will: a) prioritize programme integration, layering, sequencing and scale including across the nexus; b) adopt people-centred and participatory approaches; c) ensure that programming is context-specific, evidence-informed and conflict-sensitive; d) foster collaborative partnerships and leverage its convening role; and e) build upon and strengthen local and national capacity to leverage impact, sustainability and scale.
WFP's resilience policy is aligned with international policy on food security and nutrition, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals and it builds on the United Nations Common Guidance on Helping Build Resilient Societies.
