WFP’s current gender policy, which explicitly reaffirms WFP’s commitment to creating an enabling environment for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment to support partner countries in addressing food and nutrition challenges sustainably.
Literature review and empirical research conducted by ALINe on behalf of WFP between January and August 2011, which examined the situation of women in the countries where P4P is currently being implemented.
More specifically, the aims of the literature review and research were to:

Ground-truth the P4P Occasional Paper II produced by the P4P unit in October 2010 (on enhancing women’s participation) through a more extensive and comprehensive literature review.
Conduct fieldwork in selected P4P countries in order to contextualise the global strategy, i.e. to conceptualise general and strategic objectives that resonate with the different countries and are likely to be achieved through contextualised activities and action plans.