While developing the overall framework that will guide WFP’s work on social protection in the region, the regional Social Protection and Gender teams decided to join forces and dedicate specific attention to WFP’s role in supporting Gender-Sensitive Social Protection, a crosscutting topic of renewed relevance for Zero Hunger, both globally and in the LAC region.
This paper reflects this effort. It intends to better define gender-sensitive social protection in the context of WFP’s work in the region, and provides the overarching framework for ensuring a gender dimension is integrated in WFP’s work on social protection for the period 2017-2021.