The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme

In 2018, WFP launched an innovative programme to boost resilience across the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger). For the first time, an integrated package of activities—combining Food Assistance for Assets (FFA), school feeding, nutrition, capacity strengthening and seasonal support—is implemented across the region and at scale. With the resilience scale-up, our aim is to achieve transformative change by assisting 2 million people until 2023.

Transforming the Sahel

The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme

In practice, this means bringing degraded land back to life, getting children back to school, investing in healthy diets for mothers and children, creating jobs for the youth and building social cohesion throughout entire communities. Crucially, this occurs in the same communities, targeting the same vulnerable people over a period of at least five years. This brings the necessary investments at scale to boost the resilience of Sahelian communities.

WFP is not working alone but in close coordination with governments and partners and together with communities that take ownership of their own transformative journey.

1.9 million people have benefited so far from the WFP integrated resilience package
in more than 1,900 villages in the five countries
working with 90 implementing/cooperating partners

Model for Integrated Action and Partnership

One community, multiple interventions: The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme combines a package of interlinked activities - comprising Food Assistance for Assets (FFA), school feeding, nutrition, capacity strengthening and seasonal support.

The Integrated Package in Action