strategy
Using food-for-work programmes
Context:
In food-for-work activities, food is used as an incentive or part-payment for beneficiaries who participate in various projects. Implementation:
In certain World Food Programme (WFP) activities, villagers receive food rations in exchange for work as varied as: planting trees to reforest an eroded mountain-side; building a community library, making saleable crafts and building water cisterns. Broader:
Providing food aidImproving work incentivesCreating complementary currenciesSustaining relief with developmentUsing performance-related incentives Facilitates:
Promoting developmentProviding incentives for farmingProviding incentives to economic developmentUsing economic instruments for sustainable developmentProviding incentives to undertake conservation measuresMeeting biomass energy needs of the poor with re-afforestation Facilitated by:
Managing food aid projectsDefining effective incentives Problems:
Corruption and mismanagement of foreign aidDenial of right to economic security during periods of unemployment
Inadequate commercial finance for rural development projects
Inappropriate design of development projects
Inappropriate employment incentives
Malnutrition
Unemployment
Organizations:
World Food Programme Subjects:
Social Activity → WorkAmenities → Food
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
