Feedback and Complaints mechanisms

Also known as “Grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs)”, they “refer to the formal institutions and channels that capture beneficiary complaints or grievances related to targeting, service delivery, or other program functions, and provide redress. Grievance redress is an important element of managing a targeted program, particularly when cash is involved. Grievance redress mechanisms can be important for mitigating inclusion and exclusion errors and for monitoring corruption.” Also See: Grievance...

Feminization of poverty

"A series of phenomena within poverty affect men and women differently, resulting in poor women outnumbering poor men, women suffering more severe poverty than men, and female poverty displaying a more marked tendency to increase, largely because of the rise in the number of female-headed households. This set of phenomena has come to be termed the ‘feminization of poverty’. Although the idea of the feminization of poverty has been questioned, it has pointed out the need to acknowledge that...

Financial education

"Financial education can be defined as “the process by which financial consumers/investors improve their understanding of financial products, concepts and risks and, through information, instruction and/or objective advice, develop the skills and confidence to become more aware of financial risks and opportunities, to make informed choices, to know where to go for help, and to take other effective actions to improve their financial well-being”. Financial education thus goes beyond the provision...

Financial inclusion

"Financial inclusion means that individuals have access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs (…) delivered in a responsible and sustainable way. (...) Financial access facilitates day-to-day living, and helps families plan for everything from long-term goals to unexpected emergencies. As accountholders, people are more likely to use other financial services, such as (…) invest in education or health, manage risk, and weather financial shocks, which can...

Food access

“Food access concerns a household’s ability to acquire adequate amounts of food, through one or a combination of own home production and stocks, purchases, barter, gifts, borrowing and food aid”. Source : World Food Programme. 2009. “Emergency Food Security Assessment Handbook”. Rome, Italy. WFP. < https://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/manual_guide_... . Accessed 29 October 2020.

Food availability

“Food availability is the physical presence of food in the area of concern through all forms of domestic production, commercial imports and food aid. Food availability might be aggregated at the regional, national, district or community level”. Source : World Food Programme. 2009. “Emergency Food Security Assessment Handbook”. Rome, Italy. WFP. < https://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/manual_guide_... . Accessed 29 October 2020.

Food for work

"Food distributed to individuals or households in exchange for labour.” Source: Barrientos, A. et al. 2010. "Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database - Version 5.0". The University of Manchester Overseas Development Institute. < http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/social-assistance-database-version-5.pdf >. Accessed 11 June 2020.

Food insecurity

"A situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. It may be caused by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution or inadequate use of food at the household level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation and inappropriate care and feeding practices are the major causes of poor nutritional status. Food insecurity may...

Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

“Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) is experience-based measures of household or individual food security (…) regarding people's access to adequate food, and can be easily integrated into various types of population surveys. (…)The questions focus on self-reported food-related behaviors and experiences associated with increasing difficulties in accessing food due to resource constraints. Source : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. n.d. “Food Insecurity Experience...

Food security

"A situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Based on this definition, four food security dimensions can be identified: food availability, economic and physical access to food, food utilization and stability over time." Source: FAO; IFAD and WFP. 2015. "Annex 3 - Glossary of selected terms used in the report". In: The...