WFP’s Regional Bureau in Nairobi (RBN) serves the East Africa region including Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Rwanda, and as of December 2020, also Sudan. In May 2020, RBN established a Social Protection Learning Facility to enhance evidence-based decision making, learning and accountability in WFP’s social protection work in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks. This report is a product of the first phase of the facility partnership and focuses on lessons learned from WFP’s work in 2020 that are important for the social protection sector in the region going forward.