Food Security and Livelihoods
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Community action, levers of change: Reorienting more inclusive and resilient local food systems
Food and market systems consistently evolve requiring astute management by suppliers to remain competitive. To meet this challenge, World Vision invests in smallholder farmer entrepreneurship. Through training, mentoring and technical support to
A gender-responsive approach to natural resources
Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in environmental natural resource management (NRM) creates sustainable benefits for households and communities while advancing human and environmental health and wellbeing outcomes. However, many of the
A behavioural livelihoods approach to address psychosocial constraints to empowerment
Abstract: Little is known about psychosocial or ‘internal’ behaviours that can perpetuate chronic poverty and how to alleviate them in development programmes. This paper presents a conceptual and evaluation framework examining the
Maximizing Nutrition Outcomes Within Food Systems
The Mainstreaming Nutrition within Food Systems publication series represents the culmination of country-based stakeholder consultations conducted by World Vision in 2020. In partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and in
GESI Reference Guide: GESI and Food Security and Livelihoods
Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) programs by themselves will not achieve World Vision’s development goals if they exclude certain groups from their benefits. Food Security and Livelihoods strategies need to incorporate Gender
GESI Promising Practice: Malawi Empowered Worldview
This document presents a gender equality and social inclusion promising practice on empowering resource poor households and communities for sustained well-being of children through a faith- based behavior change approach to economic
Women’s Economic Empowerment Sector Summary
World Vision’s women’s economic empowerment efforts work to improve the abilities, access and agency of women, while simultaneously addressing inequitable social and cultural norms, laws, and institutions to promote a more enabling
Women’s Economic Empowerment Framework and Program Quality Assurance Standards
World Vision’s WEE Framework and Program Quality Assurance Standards (PQAS) aims to build a common understanding of the pathways of change required for women to be economically empowered alongside men – to
Integrating Extremely Poor Producers into Market Systems Field Guide
The Integrating Extremely Poor Producers into Markets Field Guide is intended to provide the field-level practitioner with tools and applications to impact extremely poor households. The intended outcome of the Field Guide
Resilience Food Security Activity Capacity Statement
World Vision’s Food Security and Livelihoods programming focuses on multi-sectoral, integrated approaches to enhancing the resilience of vulnerable populations around the world. Due to our extensive experience and presence in nearly 100