On a hot Wednesday afternoon, Atoumata Nimaga smilingly welcomes women – babies tied securely on their backs –arriving at a local health centre in the central Malian village of Dotembougou.
Not so long ago, the mother of three, who is in her twenties, faced hunger so severe that it put her then unborn child at risk.
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.
Bhutanese children and the wider public are experiencing the triple burden of malnutrition - undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies.
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.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to link its governments and partners’ social protection and disaster risk reduction programmes with a more comprehensive set of innovative tools including disaster risk management, risk transfer, and financial inclusion.
Adaptation means to support vulnerable people and ecosystems to become more resilient to the cascading effects of climate change coinciding with multiple vulnerabilities.
Chad’s education system has been affected by numerous structural factors and multiple humanitarian crises over several years, which magnify the challenges in providing equitable and inclusive access to quality education for all school-aged children.
There has been a noted decrease in the enrolment and retention of girls in primary school and this phenomenon is even more pronounced in th
It covered the period 2015-2022.
The evaluation concluded that:
While a resilience policy is relevant to WFP’s mandate, it no longe fulfils its role in positioning WFP in the resilience landscape and should be updated for greater conceptual clarity.
World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Nutrition Response.
Annual Country Reports
Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)
