U.S. Contribution to the World Food Program (WFP) Integrated Resilience Programme

The WFP Integrated Resilience Programme in Niger aims to promote communities capacities to absorb shocks, adapt to risk, transform livelihoods and, more broadly, achieve sustained food security.

The programme includes five main components: (i) food assistance for assets (FFA); (ii) school feeding; (iii) preventive and curative nutrition/health measures; (iv) Smallholder Agriculture Market Support (SAMS); and (v) implemented in parallel with lean season support (LSS) through seasonal cash transfers to address the immediate needs of the most vulnerable people in the targeted communities.

FFA differs from other forms of delivering food assistance (such as Food for Work or Cash for Work programmes) due to its strong emphasis on asset creation and enhancement, and its impacts on people and communities.