The World Food Programme's contribution to improving the prospects for peace in Lebanon / [electronic resource] Kristina Tschunkert

"September 2021".

This report aims to provide a better understanding of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) contribution to improving the prospects for peace in Lebanon. Specifically, the report investigates where and how WFP’s cash-based transfer (CBT) interventions in the country make potential peace contributions and looks at how these contributions could be further developed.?The findings are based on a review of programme documents, in-depth interviews with a range of stakeholders and field visits to project sites in Lebanon in 2021. The findings suggest that WFP’s CBT interventions can—and do—positively contribute to improving the prospects for peace in Lebanon. However, the conflict and peacebuilding environment in Lebanon is extremely complex and rife with uncertainties. With this in mind, the report emphasizes the importance of taking conflict sensitivity concerns into account and provides 13 recommendations on how WFP’s contribution to peace in Lebanon could be enhanced.??

Established in 2018, the SIPRI–WFP Knowledge Partnership seeks to improve understanding of the relationship between food, security, stability and peace. The partnership aims to assess how and how far the WFP’s programming contributes to improving the prospects for peace, while at the same time asking whether that programming has any unwanted negative effects.

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