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Quick and effective communication is key to saving more lives by ensuring a coordinated humanitarian response that avoids duplication of effort.

By Arif Husain The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we live and work. It's also affecting the World Food Programme's (WFP) life-saving operations across the globe. In an interview last month, I signalled the potential implications of the disease for the world's interconnected systems and economies.

ROME/NEW YORK – Alarming new food security projections for Sudan published today show that Sudan is facing a devastating hunger catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Darfur crisis in the early 2000s, warn the heads of three United Nations agencies.  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have

“Distance Unknown” is an awareness art campaign on the complicated realities faced by people on the move, through an exhibition co-produced with migrants.

The “Food consumption score” (FCS) is a score calculated using the frequency of consumption of different food groups consumed by a household during the 7 days before the survey. There are standard weights for each of the food groups that comprise the food consumption score. The link below provides a more detailed meta data file for the "Food Consumption Score".

The data exchange, the first of its kind, involves IOM’s BRaVE, a biometric beneficiary data management system used to strengthen humanitarian responses, and WFP’s SCOPE system, a beneficiary information and transfer management platform that helps WFP know better the people it serves. Under an agreement signed in 2018, the two agencies will share biometric data of individuals registered in each

This document provides an overview of social protection information systems across Asia and the Pacific, highlighting opportunities for strengthening and innovation to improve data management, coverage, and programme efficiency in addressing vulnerabilities

Bhutan is located in one of the most seismically active zones in the world. The country is also highly prone to floods, forest fires, landslides, urban fires, and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). The risks imposed by these hazards are intensified by the climate crisis.

This solution currently tackles a specific nutrition monitoring case, addressing the challenges faced by humanitarians in the field by replacing paper booklets and manual data entry with digital records, enabling frontline workers to make informed decisions with real-time data.  With 51 million children world-wide suffering from acute malnutrition, and this being the underlying cause for 2.6