Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) programs alone cannot achieve development goals if they exclude certain groups from their benefits. To ensure that marginalized and excluded groups can fully participate in decision-making and benefit equitably from FSL interventions, strategies must integrate Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI). World Vision’s GEDSI approach actively addresses harmful social norms and power imbalances to advance inclusion across all contexts and technical program areas.
The development of a framework that combines food systems and GEDSI demonstrates an inclusive, transformative approach to sustainable food systems outcomes. This framework brings together food security, livelihoods, GEDSI, and nutrition, with child well-being at its core, to support inclusive and sustainable development. Within the framework, food system drivers and GEDSI domains interact to catalyze change at multiple levels — individual, household, community, and societal — by transforming systemic barriers to inclusion.
