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WFP uses cash transfers to empower people with choice to address their essential needs by purchasing goods from the local markets, while also helping to boost these markets. More than 50 percent of WFP’s assistance to refugees in Uganda is provided in the form of cash transfers. “The top-up from the EU comes at a time when we need it most.

Most visitors arriving in Lima immediately turn south to the mystical Nazca lines and to the Andes, in search of Inca ruins and fluffy alpacas wearing brightly coloured pompoms.

“Conflict, displacement and disease have taken a devastating toll on the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pushing millions into hunger and desperation. But WFP’s food assistance is providing a lifeline to many of these people, preventing them from being overwhelmed by starvation and famine,” said Beasley. “We urgently need more funding to continue this vital work.

When the going gets tough, WFP gets going.

Sudan’s war has triggered the world’s largest hunger crisis, as the fighting continues to devastate lives and livelihoods. More than half the population (26 million) is now facing acute hunger – including 755,000 people facing catastrophic conditions, with hunger-related deaths already being recorded. One in every two Sudanese is struggling to put enough food on their plates every single day.

Three consecutive years of drought coupled with a sharp recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a third of the population in Southern Madagascar struggling to put food on the table. With severe malnutrition rates continuing to spiral and many children forced to beg in order to help their families eat, urgent action is required to prevent a humanitarian crisis.

The manual provides strategic and technical information to guide WFP staff and its partners in planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on their FFA programmes, and provides technical design and standard requirements for different types of FFA activities – key to ensure high-quality standards are applied to asset building for long-lasting impacts on livelihoods, foo

Household food consumption and dietary diversity improved in December compared with November, particularly among internally displaced people (IDPs) – but still one IDP household in every four reported relying on negative food-related coping. Above-average use of coping strategies continued in Ninewa - where nearly a quarter of all households reported not having enough food or money to buy foo

WFP's Country Office in Jordan responds to the food needs of 1 million vulnerable refugees and Jordanians through numerous activities defined within the WFP Jordan-Country Strategic Plan (2020 - 2022), including the provision of food assistance to refugees in camps and communities, support for income-generating and training opportunities for vulnerable Jordanians and refugees in communities, and s