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The mud structures housing some of Nepal's poorest people never stood a chance – survivors of Friday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake, which killed 157 people in the country, are sleeping rough after their homes were destroyed. The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Nepal and partners in mobilizing relief supplies for families who find themselves suddenly without their hom

WFP is rapidly mobilizing to scale up assistance inside Gaza once safe access is granted.

More than 370,000 people have been forced to leave their homes and make their way to Afghanistan since the Government of Pakistan announced in October that all undocumented foreigners would be deported. We visited Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is supplying cash to help families cover their most basic food needs. WFP is on the ground alongside othe

In 2023, WFP’s Regional Bureau in Dakar undertook a learning exercise to collate detailed and current information on how WFP country offices in Western Africa design and implement complementary, context specific, and agile HDP Nexus approaches. The goal is to inform and build WFP’s evidence and advocacy with the latest practices from the field.

ROME, December 11, 2023— Against a backdrop of record food insecurity across the globe, the World Bank and the World Food Programme (WFP) agreed today to deepen their partnership in several priority areas at the country level.

“We already lost our homes in Khartoum and watched as our lives were destroyed before our eyes. Now we are forced to flee yet again, leaving behind what little we had left. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing on foot, with nowhere to go.

In Zimbabwe, WFP supports the development and mainstreaming of an anticipatory action system with the aim of moving towards proactive risk management.

More than a decade after the 2011 Arab Spring and the subsequent civil war in Libya, years of political instability have left the country in a fragile state of transition to peace and stability.

Conducted between October 2019 and September 2020, the evaluation assessed WFP’s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which WFP has made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency; factors that explain WFP performance; and the appropriateness of the Level 3 response to the Rohingya crisis. The evaluation concluded that:

With the world still roiling from the Covid-19 pandemic, and over 3.5 million additional refugees in Europe in just the past three weeks, an unprecedented shock wave is reverberating through the global food system. Aside from the huge WFP operation now underway inside Ukraine, and the impact on neighbouring countries, the crisis has caused global operational costs to spiral with an immediate im