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The urgent and lasting solutions needed to achieve SDG 2 require change across multiple levels, with the World Food Programme working every day to raise awareness and encourage positive action.
In accordance with the policy of the humanitarian country team in Ukraine, WFP prioritizes the use of cash assistance to support Ukrainians affected by the war.
After exhausting all other options, WFP took the decision to stretch the extremely limited resources by prioritizing 3 million Syrians who are unable to make it from one week to the next without food assistance rather than continue assistance to 5.5 million people and run out of food completely by October.
“Instead of scaling up or even keeping pace with increasing needs, we’re facing the bleak
It's not even noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, and the thermometer is already hovering near 40 degrees Celsius. The unpaved road to the village is bumpy and sandy.
The World Food Programme has begun distributing assistance to communities affected by Cyclone Kenneth, which struck north-eastern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on Thursday, 25 April – the strongest tropical storm ever to hit the country – causing widespread destruction and displacement.
To date, WFP has provided food assistance to around 1.3 million people struggling to get back on their fee
WFP is deeply concerned about the safety of civilians caught up in the violence as military operations continue across northeastern Syria, around the towns of Ras al-Ayn in Hasakeh and Tell Abyad in Raqqa.
WFP has so far provided immediate food assistance to more than 83,000 people fleeing towns in northeast Syria.
The humanitarian situation is dire especially for those arriving at the collectiv
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.
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.
The commitment to provide safe and quality food to affected populations is not only driven by the immediate need to address hunger and malnutrition but also by the responsibility to ensure that donors’ contributions are effectively used to purchase good, nutritious food.