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Food-for-Work (FFW) is a particular labour intensive Public Works
programme aimed at overcoming short-term food deficits at the
household level, and simultaneously providing family income
support for long-term asset creation. The target groups of Food-for-
Work activities are generally unemployed, poor, and food insecure
people within the project area.
Food-for-Work activities is a common tool used by GTZ in the
context of Integrated Food Security Programmes (IFSP) to provide
welfare safety nets for poor people.
IFSPs pursue a double strategy by applying the FFW tool to:
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Fill the gap of acute food deficits immediately, and
- Mobilise human resources through promotion or rehabilitation
of productive or social infrastructure for sustainable food
security.
Common Food-for-Work projects are road rehabilitation, soil or
resource protection measures, ecological management or reforestation
and social infrastructure, such as schools, clinics or community
buildings.
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