This contribution is particularly crucial in a context where millions of families are struggling to meet their basic food and nutrition needs due to the compounding effects of the climate crisis, conflicts and insecurity, and the high costs of food and fuel in West Africa which drive food out of reach for vulnerable families.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to link its governments and partners’ social protection and disaster risk reduction programmes with a more comprehensive set of innovative tools including disaster risk management, risk transfer, and financial inclusion.
Adaptation means to support vulnerable people and ecosystems to become more resilient to the cascading effects of climate change coinciding with multiple vulnerabilities.
With support from Cargill, the World Food Programme (WFP) contracted the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition (SEAMEO RECFON) to conduct a study on the effects of COVID-19 on the nutrition of school-aged children and the opportunity for enhancing the nutrition focus under the school health programmes (Usaha Kesehatan Sekolah/Madrasah, or U
It covered the period 2015-2022.
The evaluation concluded that:
While a resilience policy is relevant to WFP’s mandate, it no longe fulfils its role in positioning WFP in the resilience landscape and should be updated for greater conceptual clarity.
Chad’s education system has been affected by numerous structural factors and multiple humanitarian crises over several years, which magnify the challenges in providing equitable and inclusive access to quality education for all school-aged children.
There has been a noted decrease in the enrolment and retention of girls in primary school and this phenomenon is even more pronounced in th
World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Nutrition Response.
Annual Country Reports
Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)
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