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Framework, indicators and multi-level index for value chains and markets Building on the multi-composite WEAI (IFPRI) framework and index, the WFP RBD market analysis team seeks to work towards an adapted version (more relevant for agricultural production support and focus) to meet WFP humanitarian and market-based programming needs: the Women’s Empowerment in Markets Index (WEMI) with the potenti

In January 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) released a six-month Drought Response Plan for the Horn of Africa.

While Uganda’s Karamoja region registered development gains recently, overall, since independence, there have been significant failures. WFP contracted Development Pathways to investigate the situation and generate ideas for innovative solutions.

14 million people in Afghanistan are facing acute food insecurity, and an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five expected to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the year.

Under this strategic partnership, Dubai Holding will kick off the first joint campaign ‘A Meal for a Brighter Tomorrow’ this Ramadan up until Eid Al Adha, pledging to enable school meals to reach children in need.

Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school. “We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.

Hosted by Italy, the Pre-Summit will be held in Rome from 26-28 July, with a vast programme and platform. Earlier this month, the UN’s SOFI report (or The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2021), confirmed the World Food Programme’s (WFP) worst fears — up to 811 million people went hungry last year as the combined effects of conflict, climate extremes and the coronavirus

Asma Khan has long been a dedicated supporter of WFP and its causes. Asma advocated for WFP’s Women are Hungrier campaign, to draw attention to the central role women’s empowerment plays in ending hunger and transforming communities.