Watch the recording   African countries are currently engaged in planning and implementing large-scale rural transformation agendas. While rural transformation has the potential to reduce poverty and inequality, this can only occur if programmes and policies are designed specifically to be inclusive of poor, and extreme poor households. These households face constraints...

Watch the recording In LAC, the COVID-19 pandemic represented a health, economic and social crisis that exposed and aggravated inequalities and tested the resilience and responsiveness of food and social protection systems. As a social sector traditionally marginalized, rural populations are among the most exposed groups to some of the risks...

WATCH THE RECORDING HERE On October 25, the first webinar in our new PEI Open House series, co-created and hosted with the Food and Agriculture Organization, explored the intersection of food systems and economic inclusion programs.  The webinar gathered global and country experts to discuss linkages, and to better inform, in the...

This webinar launched the Inter-Agency Social Protection Assessment Tool on Food Security and Nutrition (ISPA-FSN Tool),, and discussed the experience and lessons drawn from implementing it at country level. The aim of the webinar was to make the Tool known to a wide audience and encourage its uptake and application. Experts from...

Universal social protection (USP) is an essential pillar for an inclusive and sustainable transformation of food systems and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Yet, more than 70 percent of the global population today is still not adequately covered by any form of social protection, most of whom are...