WFP’s Support to Strengthening the National Social Protection System in the Philippines

This case study reviews WFP’s support to the national social protection system in the Philippines since 2018, in particular to the government’s flagship nutrition-sensitive social protection programme Walang Gutom. It also examines WFP’s efforts aimed at improving the shock-responsiveness of the national system. It assesses how WFP has supported the various building blocks of the national system, emphasizing the recent shift from direct implementation to capacity strengthening and enabling the national system. This is a light-touch exercise, undertaken through a rapid literature review and four interviews with WFP current and former staff. It is part of a suite of country case studies undertaken by researchers at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) for WFP, creating a portfolio of learning on WFP’s work on enabling social protection around the world.