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“Thanks to the support of the Government and continued funding from the Russian Federation, school feeding has become a flagship WFP programme in Tajikistan, contributing to the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren across the country,” said Adham Musallam, WFP Representative and Country Director in Tajikistan. “By providing schoolchildren with healthy, nutritious school meals to

In 2021, the Office of Evaluation (OEV) commissioned IOD PARC to conduct the ‘Review of the pilot phase (2019-2021) of the WFP Impact Evaluation Strategy (2019-2026)’, hereafter referred to as ‘the review’. The review assessed progress towards the strategy’s objectives, and to what extent WFP had established the structures and capacity required to deliver the strategy. Overall, the review fo

WFP stands ready to play its part in addressing this global crisis working with the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS), the Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission (FARM), and other initiatives while bringing to the table more than 60 years of experience in combatting hunger worldwide. The world is facing a global hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Extreme climate impacts like droughts, heatwaves and floods are one of the leading causes of hunger destroying crops and agricultural land, decimating livelihoods and wreaking havoc in already vulnerable communities.

Additional reporting by Barbara Pereira Mendes Four years ago, Marie Jeanne lived in her hometown of Kahanga – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s Équateur province. There she grew crops to make sure her family could eat. Then violence broke out.

Of the Japanese contribution, US$ 68 million will be used to support 30 countries’ response to deteriorating global food security.

WFP depends on river transport to reach rural and remote communities during the rainy season, when roads become inaccessible. However, due to a deterioration in the security situation along the White Nile, WFP has had to suspend its barge movement between Adok and Malakal as the waterways have become inaccessible, to the detriment of communities in the firing line.

The end of over two years of drought that pushed the country to the brink of famine has brought little relief for families. Floods – by some estimates the worst in decades – have driven close to half a million people from their homes and crippled families’ attempts to rebuild their drought-ravaged livelihoods. “The most vulnerable people in Somalia have been hit once again by climate change.

The courtyard of the Cinkanssé Prefecture, in northern Togo’s Savanes region, is teeming with people on a sunny morning as a strident voice, amplified by loudspeakers, calls out Youlka Yayeti’s name.   She heaves a sigh of relief. With her national identity and ration cards in hand, she hurries to the distribution point for World Food Programme (WFP) cash.

The Government of Algeria and international donors have shown consistent solidarity with Sahrawi refugees through humanitarian support over more than four decades, support that has been of vital importance, and must be recognized. Regrettably, pressed by global challenges, this support is now insufficient to meet current needs.