This evaluation met a dual objective of accountability for results and learning, which had been mutually reinforced, with a focus on learning; and its purpose was to support decision-making regarding the redesign and continuity of activities.
“Over half of the people in Yemen are facing acute food shortages with millions knocking on the door of famine. These are not just numbers. They are real people and it is heartbreaking,” said David Beasley. “Famine-like conditions are emerging across Yemen and the answer is simple. We have a vaccine for this. It is called food.
Announced off the back of the State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020 report, Skinnari’s leadership of the coalition is the first step toward fulfilling the report’s recommendation of a coalition to support governments in the reintroduction and scale up of school meals programmes following COVID-19.
“When schools closed at the onset of the pandemic, 370 million school children were suddenly miss
“The land without a tree is naked and tender,” sings Inés Morales as she cradles a small mangrove plant in her hands. She is the leader and elder in the Afro-Ecuadorian Comarca of Northern Esmeraldas, a community living along Ecuador’s border with Colombia. “It grows like a child and holds in its memory the hidden songs of the universal soul,” she continues.
In the past year, the World Food Programme (WFP) has suffered the worst funding shortfalls in its 60-year history: we raised just US$7.5 billion of our projected costs of US$23.5 billion.
This has resulted in colossal reductions in the number of people we serve.
The contributions will help support up to 300,000 people through 2022. The first grant of JPY400 million (approximately US$3 million) will be used to procure 1,500 metric tons of rice that will assist 41,500 people facing severe food insecurity.
“We are deeply saddened by the killing of this humanitarian worker,” said Chris Nikoi, WFP Regional Director for West Africa. “It is unacceptable that humanitarians working tirelessly to alleviate suffering in these difficult and unprecedented times should be targeted.
Funding from the European Union is helping Syrian families to boost their nutrition at a critical time with a combination of food and cash assistance.
At a small supermarket in Hama, Rubin’s trying to balance a tray of eggs in one hand and a bag of eggplants in another.