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Germany’s donation will contribute to WFP’s Tigray emergency response that aims to reach up to 2.1 million people with urgently needed food and nutrition assistance.

Southern Honduras looks shockingly similar to the Niger, Chad or countries in the arid Sahel region of West Africa. Years of drought have left this once productive area scorched and barren.  Then last fall, hurricanes Eta and Iota ripped through Central America. The baked earth, hardened like a ceramic plate, couldn’t absorb the torrential rains.

During his visit, Shiau met with communities from Mullaitivu in the North of Sri Lanka, who are among those worst affected by the economic crisis – including pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and people with disabilities – to better understand their nutritional needs.    This year, the US has provided a record total US$20 million (approximately LKR 7.3 billion) to support WFP’s

It complements the 2020 Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on the Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls, which focused on gender mainstreaming in humanitarian action. The Review, as a companion piece to the evaluation, identifies constraints that need to be addressed to achieve greater inclusion of GEEWG in the triple nexus and suggests practical measures to be undertaken to

UNHAS provides common air transport services to the humanitarian and development community in Chad, enabling immediate response and access to key hard hard-to-reach locations, including for security relocations and medical evacuations, when required. Furthermore, UNHAS is the only viable airline operating internal flights in Chad.

The United Nations World Food Programme has swiftly mounted an emergency food assistance operation deploying more than 180 staff and increasing food distributions to reach 1.4 million people, yet that is barely half of the number we should be reaching.  Other agencies are also struggling to reach many of the rest of Tigray’s hungry.   The brutal reality for our staff in Tigray is t

Nick Dyer and David Beasley said: “More than 250 million people now face extreme hunger this year alone and coronavirus has made this dire situation even worse. “There are up to 30 million adults and children facing the most acute food insecurity and who could be tipped into famine if additional support is not provided.  “The United Kingdom and World Food Programme are taking early acti

The agencies warned of growing risks including increased malnutrition and anaemia, stunted child growth, deterioration of the health status due to susceptibility to diseases/infection and a myriad of protection risks further compounded by the COVID 19 pandemic. Funding shortages will force ration cuts of up to 60 percent of people’s required daily intake, meaning some 710,000 refugees impacted

Some US$20.6 million will be used to provide life-saving support to families in conflict-stricken Yemen, where nearly 50,000 people are living in famine-like conditions, with 5 million just a step away from those same desperate conditions. In Afghanistan, a US$12.9 million allocation will support WFP’s response for families affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A further

The key objective of this assessment is to assess the benefits and satisfaction levels among the beneficiaries and other stakeholders with the inclusion of subsidized pulses in food safety nets and to explore the sustainability aspects of the inclusion of Pulses into the TPDS in terms of meeting national policies on maintaining strategic reserves and ensuring food and nutrition security.