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Wellness and accommodation services

A healthy workforce enables WFP to reach the world’s most food insecure people. Ensuring staff wellness is therefore a responsibility the Organization has not only towards its employees, but also towards the donors who entrust it with their money and the beneficiaries who rely on its capacity to deliver.

Story | 02 April 2024

Iran: EU funding means cash and in-kind food assistance for Afghan and Iraqi refugees

Ram Bibi and her parents are among nearly more than 7,300 refugee families from Afghanistan and Iraq residing inside 20 settlements across Iran. Cash assistance from the World Food Programme(WFP) facilitated by donors such as the European Union enables people to buy the foods they need, while in-kind foods such as flour enable families to make food. Ram Bibi's family moved to Iran

Story | 16 February 2024

UNHAS at 20: Humanitarian response planes and helicopters touch down in tough places

A small white UNHAS Dash 8 airplane taxis down the rough tarmac of tiny Beni airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, raising a cloud of dust on a sunny morning – along with hopes for this conflict-torn region. This is not just a routine flight. It is a lifeline.

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Supply chain for cash transfers

Supply chain assessment to define type of assistance, emergency cash, retail engagement strategy and contracting of money transfer providers

Story | 27 June 2024

Sudan hunger crisis: WFP calls for funds and humanitarian access to avert famine

Breaking: WFP Sudan latest In the eastern city of Port Sudan, where tens of thousands of war-displaced seek shelter, frail infants with stick-thin arms chalk up dangerously high malnutrition levels. Hungry people pack schools and other makeshift housing centres, clinging to scant belongings from their old lives.

Story | 29 October 2024

Hunger ‘inevitable’ for millions made homeless by conflict in Lebanon and beyond

The Middle East is in crisis, with millions forced from their homes, destitute and hungry amid a spreading war that has claimed thousands of lives.

News release | 24 February 2021

WFP strengthens community skills in Zimbabwe’s urban centres with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation support

SDC’s support complements the cash transfers that WFP is already delivering to the most vulnerable, food insecure urban Zimbabweans with activities which build their resilience to cope with various shocks and stressors, which can devastate their food security.

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Sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems

Meeting today’s livelihood needs and safeguarding natural resources for future generations.

Story | 07 March 2024

How loans from WFP are growing prospects for women farmers in Rwanda

Hoe in hand, Godelive Niyonagira heads to her fields in the quiet hills of Muyinza village, some 130 km south of Rwanda’s capital Kigali. The warm sun chases away a chilly wind that sweeps through the high slopes.Niyonagira has a maize crop to manage, which fits into her bigger plan: to renovate her home and secure medical insurance.

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South-South and Triangular Cooperation

South-South and triangular cooperation covers the direct exchange of knowledge, experiences, skills, resources and technical know-how among developing countries, often assisted by a donor or multilateral organization, such as WFP. This “triangular” facilitation may take the form of funding, training, management, technological systems, or other types of support.