This Inception Report outlines the planned strategy for assessing the impact of the WFP resilience programme in Mali.

The impact evaluation is intended to estimate the impacts of the WFP resilience programme on absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities of the population supported. The programme comprises a range of activities, including food assistance for assets (FFA), nutrition support, school-feeding, and smallholder agriculture market support (SAMS) activities. The intended direct outcomes of the intervention are increased household resilience capacities, food security, nutrition, and well-being.