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The document also sets out the environmental and social (E&S) instruments that shall be adopted and implemented, all of which shall be subject to prior consultation and disclosure. Once adopted, E&S instruments may be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to Project per

The potential environmental and social risks for project activities are identified as: Potential exclusion of disadvantaged or vulnerable households; Potential exclusion of ethnic minorities due to access challenges or language barriers; Risks to project workers (including health and safety risks, security risks, child labor or forced labor, COVID-19 risks, and sexual exploitation and ab

The rice import dependency in Timor-Leste means that changes in international rice prices directly affect domestic prices. This short bulletin outlines the factors impacting rice price increases, provides a snapshot of the main Asian rice markets, and sets out key recommendations for action to mitigate the rice price increase factors on the people of Timor-Leste.

This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Ethiopia Country Office and covers the five-year school feeding programme in Afar and Oromia regions in Ethiopia (2019-2024), funded by McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The decentralized baseline evaluation was carried out from 2020 to 2

The summary offers lessons on WFP’s social protection programming to inform ongoing and future planning. The summary has global coverage, covering WFP social protection interventions in 37 different countries. Of the 44 evaluations, 13 were decentralized evaluations of activities; the remainder included 26 Country Strategic Plan evaluations, two policy and three strategic evaluations.

WFP has been growing its engagement and support to government to strengthening social protection systems across the region, particularly in response to food and nutrition insecurity aggravated by covariate shocks. This newsletter provides a snapshot of WFP’s social protection work throughout 2022 in Western Africa.

The project development objective (PDO) for the Additional Financing is to increase the utilization and quality of essential health and nutrition services in Afghanistan.

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 contribution will allow the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to bring together and extend their complementary initiatives and expertise in implementing the Sahel Resilience Partnership (2023-2027) targeting the most vulnerable and climate-affected people in Bur

World Food Programme in Western Africa has been supporting governments in their efforts to build nationally led social protection systems across the region, focusing on their ability to help people manage risks and shocks, all the while contributing to food security and improved nutrition.