The evaluation comprised two main components. The first examines whether children receiving the healthy meals experience greater benefits than those receiving fortified date bars.
As the chilly winter sun rises, their red cheeks burned by the frozen air, Hamida and her friends skip merrily on the way to school against the majestic backdrop of mountains and a vast lake – the Nurek reservoir.
The dawn mist slowly clears in the village of Chashma, perched high up a valley in southeast Tajikistan, as the laughter and bickering of children is heard in the schoolyard. 
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Our Emergencies and Transitions Team ensures that WFP country offices have a framework designed to plan effective and efficient interventions in emergency situations.
Working every day in 80 countries to bring food assistance to millions of children, women and men, the World Food Programme (WFP) must ensure that the food it delivers is safe, nutritious and of good quality.
Without the ability to produce or import food, the entire population of Gaza relies on aid to survive. But humanitarian aid alone cannot meet the essential needs of the Gaza people.
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