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The Agriculture for Nutrition II project addresses poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition among the rural population, especially groups such as women, young people and people with disabilities, and continues to expand into new geographies in the country. “The project is contributing to the implementation of the food security and nutrition programme, the rural development and poverty reductio

The attacks began on the evening of 28 December and looting continued into the morning of 30 December. More than 5,000 metric tons of food appear to have been taken, with hundreds of looters also dismantling warehouse structures. “WFP is outraged by these senseless attacks and condemns the continued looting of assistance and the destruction of its assets in the strongest possible terms.

“Sexual exploitation and abuse harms the most vulnerable and is an extreme form of abuse that WFP, IOM and the entire humanitarian community have no tolerance for,” says WFP Deputy Executive Director Valerie Guarnieri.

Thanks to a contribution of US$6 million from KOICA, WFP in Egypt will be implementing a two-year programme to help improve the livelihoods of about 450,000 refugee and host community members in Greater Cairo, Alexandria Damietta, and Matrouh. The programme will develop the vocational skills of refugees and host community youth, focusing on marketable skills to help youth competitively seek emp

WFP’s assistance will be suspended for 1.2 million Sudanese refugees and crisis-affected people in April due to funding shortfalls, including for new Sudanese refugees. Also at risk is the vital cross-border life-line supply route into Darfur – the only reliable route into embattled western Sudan.

”Driving through Gaza City to Jabalia, the destruction is unbelievable.  In the North of Gaza, I didn’t see one single building intact and there was constant shelling with drones buzzing overhead,” said Skau. “The people here are traumatised and exhausted.

“Eating wholegrain maize makes our bodies strong and healthy,” says 15-year-old Julienne, a student at Kibirizi primary school in Nyamagabe district in southern Rwanda. Julienne is one of more than 13,500 schoolchildren benefitting from the addition of fortified wholegrain maize in their daily school meals - children who live in the most food insecure regions of the country. Maize is a s

“The Japanese government is firmly committed to promoting the humanitarian-development nexus and helping rebuild self-reliance opportunities for refugees,” said Maruhashi Jiro, Ambassador of Japan to Angola.

WFP’s emergency food and nutrition operation aims to assist 3.4 million of the Sri Lankans most at risk of food insecurity and malnutrition amid record food inflation, skyrocketing fuel prices and widespread shortages of essential commodities. “We are deeply concerned about the impact of the current economic and political crisis on the people of Sri Lanka.

Conducted between March 2021 and February 2022, the evaluation assessed WFP’s strategic positioning and contributions to strategic outcomes (SOs); efficiency and factors that explain performance; and the extent to which WFP was able to respond to emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic. It concluded that: Overall assessment: The evaluation revealed specific contributions to each of t