Food aid and livelihoods: Challenges and opportunities in complex emergencies
This paper describes the challenges and opportunities faced by WFP in providing food aid to protect and sustain livelihoods in complex emergencies. The first part summarizes the key characteristics of complex emergencies and highlights some of the related operational challenges. The second part describes the strategies used by people affected by crisis to cope and recover, and presents some of the benefits of supporting livelihoods as a component of the emergency response. The paper ends by prop osing some implications for programming livelihood support strategies in complex emergencies based on WFP’s extensive experience in this context. Of particular importance is understanding the new dimension of risk; linking pre-emergency interventions to the emergency response; integrating livelihoods assessments into emergency needs assessments; improving the timing of interventions; as well as strong advocacy and partnerships.
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| Format: | Meeting biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AE518E http://www.fao.org/3/a-ae518e.pdf |
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