This document provides an overview of social protection information systems across Asia and the Pacific, highlighting opportunities for strengthening and innovation to improve data management, coverage, and programme efficiency in addressing vulnerabilities
This programming guide prepared by the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provides practitioners with useful information for planning and implementing food and nutrition support as part of a comprehensive treatment, care and support programme for adults and adolescents living with HIV.
Thematic case studies carried out in sub-regions and countries in the region. WFP’s regional Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) Unit’s Gender and Markets Initiative aims to build the evidence base for the impact and the transformative potential of gender in West African food markets.
The objective of these studies is to generate evidence and inform practice for improved emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean region linked to more flexible national social protection systems. The main research question for these studies is: ‘What factors enable social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks’?
Afghanistan and Myanmar will receive AUD 21 million to help WFP meet the food needs of millions of people. In Afghanistan, economic distress due to COVID-19, conflict, and drought have pushed 14 million - 1 in 3 Afghans – into acute food insecurity. In Myanmar, the political crisis, job losses and the pandemic mean 3.4 million more people will struggle to put food on the table.
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Humanitarian needs don’t stop when disaster strikes – they accelerate. Preparedness is essential.
Flooding ravages an internally displaced persons camp and communications infrastructure was washed away. How do you assist people in need?
A massive earthquake destroys a region and people need long-term support.
At a time when at least one in three children aged under 5 is affected by malnutrition, breastfeeding remains a critical way to help babies and young children meet their nutritional needs.
In responding to a global hunger crisis in a year of unprecedented needs, the World Food Programme supports breastfeeding across the world, supplying pregnant and breastfeeding women with specialized nutr
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
Hungry, thirsty and weak, more and more Gazans are falling sick, according to a report published this week.
At least 90 per cent of children aged under 5 are affected by one or more infectious diseases, with 70 percent having had diarrhoea in the past two weeks, according to analysis from the Global Nutrition Cluster.
“An immediate humanitarian ceasefire continues to provide the best cha
