Escape the Room - WFP Edition

The Sahel region of West Africa is one of the most structurally vulnerable and food insecure regions in the continent. The five Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) are facing multiple, interlinked shocks and stressors: high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, unequal access to basic services, poorly integrated markets, rising insecurity, an environment threatened by land degradation, recurrent droughts, and erratic rainfall. To counter  the recurrent nature of food insecurity  in the region and tackle its root causes,  WFP has been scaling up its resilience interventions since 2018.

You, as a team, are now responsible for contributing to the integrated resilience programme scale-up in the Sahel. Everyone in your group has been added to a meeting to discuss ways that you might employ resilience in this region and to ensure that the shocks and stressors that the programming might face do not have long-lasting adverse development consequences. 

Suddenly, while everyone is together in a virtual room, submarine fibre optic cables are cut off the coast of Mauritania, and the region suffers nationwide internet outages. In order to continue the scale-up work in the Sahel, you and your team must accomplish a series of tasks to escape the virtual room in which you now find yourselves. 

Click the link below to begin this activity. 

Keep in mind that you must work as a team to solve all of the prompts for each puzzle. 

Challenge #1: https://forms.gle/nDZv7E55wRH4Awrx6