This contribution will directly benefit 122,000 people including 94,000 schoolchildren and 27,000 food-insecure people, including internally displaced persons and those affected by climate change in the central and northern regions of Mali.
"I thank the Government of Japan for this generous contribution to WFP's work in Mali," said Sally Haydock, WFP’s Country Director and Representative.
To enhance the redemption process of beneficiaries assisted through the National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP) in areas with limited or overcrowded ATMs, WFP and the Ministry of Social Affairs are expanding the redemption points for NPTP assistance to include designated agents of the local Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) - BoB Finance.
Through this modality, transport time and cost for ben
Lauded for having some of the world’s most progressive refugee policies, Uganda hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world. Sweden contributed SEK10 million (US$1.2 million) and Germany, through the German Federal Foreign Office, gave a total of €3.6 million (US$4.4 million) for 2021 to 2023 as part of €35 million flexible funding to Eastern Africa.
Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will implement Component 3: Maternal and Child Benefit Program (MCBP) under Health Emergency Response Project Additional Financing. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase the utilization and quality of essential health services in Afghanistan.
The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support to agriculture to reduce the cost of healthy diets, mindful of the limited public resources available in many parts of the world.
The evaluation which covered six countries (Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) focused on WFP’s contribution to market development and food systems in Southern Africa and covered the 2018 to 2021.
The climate crisis is changing the entire world. But its impacts are particularly severe in the Caribbean - the second most hazard prone region in the world.