The World Food Programme's contribution to improving the prospects for peace in Mali : working paper / Rachel Goldwyn, Suyoun Jang, Jonas Holm Klange, Gary Milante and Rebecca Richards

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This Working Paper showcases detailed findings from field research in Mali, which focused on the part of World Food Programme’s (WFP) portfolio in Mali that includes food assistance for assets, general food distribution, the school meals programme and a social cohesion project funded by the Peacebuilding Fund.

This paper and the related research are part of a wider knowledge partnership between SIPRI and the WFP, which aims to better understand and strengthen WFP’s contribution to improving the prospects for peace. In the light of its complex context—where humanitarian, development and peace agendas intersect—Mali was selected along with three other countries (El Salvador, Iraq and Kyrgyzstan) for pilot phase research.
The synthesized findings of these four cases studies can be found in the preliminary report The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace.

The Mali case study is one of four country case studies for the first phase of the Stock­holm International Peace Research Institute–World Food Programme Knowledge Partnership. For each case study, a joint team of staff from SIPRI and WFP conducted in­country research for approximately two weeks to identify the possible contributions to improving the prospects for peace resulting from WFP programming.

The Mali country visit took place in January 2019. The research team consisted of: Rachel Goldwyn (Senior Conflict­Sensitivity and Peacebuilding Advisor, WFP), Suyoun Jang (Researcher, SIPRI), Jonas Holm Klange (Programme Officer, WFP Mali Country Office), Gary Milante (Director of Studies, Peace and Development, SIPRI) and Rebecca Richards (Chief of Emergencies and Transition, WFP).