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Through the training, community health workers are working under the national ‘First 1,000 Days’ programme on increasing the nutrition and health knowledge of pregnant and nursing mothers of children under 2 who are supported by the programme. The 1000 days is the period from the conception of the child and until they turn two years of age and is considered the most critical period in the child

The document provides a brief overview of the costed implementation plan for updated WFP policy on South-South and Triangular Cooperation.

This report commemorates the achievements of the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners in the English- and -Dutch-speaking Caribbean over the past five years.

São Tomé and Príncipe is a small island developing state off the coast of central Africa, with a population of 225,000 people.

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.

“I had no idea how to manage money and how to save money, because I had no schooling and no education,” says Gracia who lives in the town of Nyunzu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s southeastern province of Tanganyika.  A vendor of spices and smoked fish, Gracia had been unable to balance her accounts. “I got further into debt,” she adds.

 Sunlight trickles through tiny holes of Basanta Singh’s tin stable in Baihang village, in mountainous western Nepal.

Update June 27: Read new IPC report on Sudan here At a tent settlement in the Chadian border town of Adre, Ahmat feeds blue cloth into his foot-powered sewing machine, as a popular folksong from his native Sudan plays in loops over a loudspeaker.

The evaluation comprised two main components. The first examines whether children receiving the healthy meals experience greater benefits than those receiving fortified date bars.