A new report for the World Food Programme (WFP), co-authored by Prof. Franziska Gassmann and Eszter Timar, presents the findings of three country case studies – Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan – and provides a general overview of social protection and safety nets issues in relation to food security and nutrition outcomes in the sub-region, with a synthesis of the main trends and a set of consolidated findings and policy recommendations.
This report is part of a series of scoping studies on Social Protection and Safety Nets for Enhanced Food Security and Nutrition in the Central Asia Region commissioned by the WFP in partnership with the University of Maastricht in 2017.
Specific country-focused studies were conducted in Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan with a view to contributing fresh evidence and sound policy analysis around social protection issues in relation to food and nutrition security, and resulting in a set of country-specific policy recommendations on nutrition-sensitive social protection and safety nets that consider the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders.
The findings have already been shared in various conferences, including the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), held in Geneva on 21-22 March 2019.
See the WFP website to download the executive summary, regional synthesis and country reports.
The opinions expressed here are the authors’ own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of UNU.