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In Southern Africa, the UN’s Humanitarian Air Service – which this year marks its 20th anniversary – is very simply “a lifeline”. “UNHAS is more than an air service, it is a lifeline,” says Mamadou Mbaye, Country Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Madagascar.  When fast, safe and reliable humanitarian access and aid delivery is called for, WFP-managed UNHAS can sidestep

WFP’s ‘She Can’ women economic empowerment programme supports women with trainings and revolving micro-loans to help increase their household income. A local tailored gender-sensitive training package is provided to participating women on business management, marketing, gender, in addition to vocational training that considers local market dynamics and resources.

Fragility is a significant barrier to eradicating hunger and poverty. Moreover, frequent and severe extreme weather events are compounding these often-protracted crises worldwide. “We have decades of experience working in fragile contexts, because that is where so many of the rural poor live. But today, the rural environment is changing. It is becoming less predictable.

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World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Investing in School Based Programmes.       Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

It’s 10:15 am in Velyka Mykhailivka, in the Odesa region of Ukraine, and around 100 young faces aged six to ten are lining up in the school canteen to receive their daily meal.

Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint music from a nearby house – the tail end of a wedding party – and the darkness by a single light. Mec Sinat is already at work beneath her house which sits on stilts.

This donation will support 15,500 Ghanaians by providing them with essential digital skills and tools including mobile technologies, precision farming systems, and digital platforms, to help promote the adoption of smart agricultural practices, and encourage healthy lifestyles.

This decentralized evaluation is the Mid-Term evaluation (MTE) of the Fiscal Year 20 (FY20) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program 2020-2024. It was carried out in 2023.