Gunshots past midnight startle Nyaloka Puok wide awake. Confused, she wonders if fighting is breaking out in her village of Paguir, but another fear grips her as she remembers her community had agreed to use gunfire as a warning: the waters are coming.
The 37-year-old single mother of four rolls off the cot onto the ground and scrambles out of her hut. The dyke has burst again.
Fast-depleting funds are forcing the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food and cash-for-food assistance for nearly half of the 5.5 million people it supports in Syria, from July.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is dire and worsening, with over 18 million people, including 14 million women and children, affected by conflict, climate change, recurring disease and critical economic conditions.
The evaluation was commissioned to establish the baseline data for standard and custom outcome indicators in line with the approved Performance Monitoring Plan, and provide a situational analysis before the project begins, and the context necessary for the midterm and end-line evaluations to assess coherence, relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and impact of the project.
“When we saw bombs in our square, the place where I live, where I was born, where I work, it was the minute where I understood what has happened,” says Nina, a university professor who fled Kharkiv for Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, as she struggles to hold back tears.
Nina is among 7 million people left internally displaced following the start of the war in Ukraine.
On 24 February, 2022, Alyona woke up in her home in southern Ukraine to news of military aircraft screeching overhead.
“We had a simple, calm life and suddenly war started,” recalls the 32-year-old mother of three.
“This conflict has taken a tremendous toll on the Syrian people. Every day more and more Syrians are pushed deep into hunger and poverty,” said Sean O’Brien, WFP Representative and Country Director in Syria. “Families are faced with impossible choices: do they put food on the table, or get the healthcare they need? Or can they send their children to school?
It was conducted between July 2020 and October 2021 to assess 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 and factors that explain WFP performance.
The evaluation concluded that:
WFP was well aligned with national and policies and UN plans.
