This paper assesses the political situation, the wider macroeconomic context, and developments in the cost of minimum expenditure basket (MEB) and its food components.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of the people in Kyrgyzstan as elsewhere in unprecedented ways, profoundly affecting their ability to meet basic needs. The Brief provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic on the country's socio-economic context.
The project aims to provide emergency financial support to alleviate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable Venezuelan migrants and host communities in selected Colombian municipalities. The Stakeholders Engagement Plan and the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan are instruments to manage interactions between the WFP and the project's stakeholders.
WFP supports Uganda’s COVID-19 response in close liaison with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. WFP’s innovations range from engineering to transportation while co-chairing the national taskforce.
Risk finance can empower women with regard to climate resilience. This brochure presents success stories of women in Guatemala and Zambia showing how risk finance has changed their lives.
The World Food Programme's Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) aims to address the most food-insecure people’s immediate food needs and to improve their long-term food security and resilience.
The food basket cost in contracted markets increased from TRY 196 in June to TRY 213 in September 2021. While summer season has opportunities for the beneficiaries to generate income through agricultural work, the purchasing power decreased due to high inflation rates.
This publication provides an analysis of the state of school feeding in 2020, describes the impact of COVID-19 on school feeding around the world and presents what can be done to restore this global safety net.
Impressions from the Sahel integrated resilience programme. WFP is scaling-up investments to build community assets, promote education, improve nutrition and health, and create jobs for youth in five Sahelian countries.
Highlights of the World Food Programme’s Contributions to Social Protection in a New Normal
This report looks at WFP’s work in social protection after a tumultuous year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a collection of 10 country examples, it unpacks how WFP’s long-term support to governments enabled better social protection.
Historical Funding (from 2011 to 2023) for flexible contributions. Flexible funding is funding that is not earmarked by a donor to a specific activity, specific country or operation, giving WFP flexibility in its allocation. Flexible contributions allow WFP to use funds wherever and whenever needs are greatest.
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service is a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations on the planet.
This Brochure on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) provides an overview of WFP's zero tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and sexual abuse committed by WFP employees or partners against the people we serve.
Seasonal Livelihood Programming (SLP) supports tailored response plans at sub-national levels by linking the national-level Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) with communities and partners to deliver complementary programmes. SLP is a tool to identify short and long-term interventions suited to a variety of contexts.