In Burkina Faso, the World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the government to implement a school feeding programme consisting of regular school feeding, emergency school feeding and school feeding with local products. The country’s current political crisis and the continued deterioration of conflicts have resulted in one of the fastest growing internal displacements of people with over 1.8 million people displaced since 2019. Political instability, conflict, climate change and socio-economic problems are the main drivers of growing food insecurity in Burkina Faso, with nearly 3.5 million people experiencing food insecurity, or about 16 percent of the national population. Poor harvests and high food prices have added an additional layer of complexity in Burkina for an already vulnerable population facing multiple shocks.
In Chad, WFP and its partners provide assistance to the most vulnerable populations with the aim of achieving Zero Hunger, leveraging the country’s human resources and strengthening their access to food, notably through a Cash and Vouchers program. WFP is also involved in the implementation of a school feeding program that enables direct distribution of meals to students and promotes girls’ attendance by regularly distributing family rations.
The VAM Officer will lead the Country Office (CO) investment in strengthening existing early warning systems through the establishment of a common integrated framework for early warning monitoring and dissemination. They will ensure CO’s priority to provide leadership in research and generating indicators on food security and development of evidence generation methodologies and tools to support the CO’s triple nexus approach. This requires technical skills and ability develop strategic partnership, with national and international institutions such as (CIRAD, CIAT, INRAE, IFPRI). He or she must have the background and understanding of national food systems impacted by climatic change, conflict and impact of COVID-19. They will be required to ensure WFP support and participation in the national food security coordination system coordinated by the Executive Secretariat of the National Food Security Committee (SE-CNSA), develop partnership with the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD) to jointly conduct price monitoring of non-food products and follow the price index to consumption to feed the evaluation of the value of the monetary transfer through the MEB. Ensure technical and financial investment in upgrading SONAGESS Market Information System (SIM).
The VAM Officer must have in-depth understanding of the Common Framework for Food Security Classification and ensure WFP’s capacity strengthening support to SE-CNSA coordination of the food security system to support the Harmonized Framework and national response planning process. The capacity strengthening will also include partnership with universities and research institutions to build evidence with on the effects and impacts of resilience programs, IDP returns and impacts of early recovery programs, integration and return of displaced people & hosts population.