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As the chilly winter sun rises, their red cheeks burned by the frozen air, Hamida and her friends skip merrily on the way to school against the majestic backdrop of mountains and a vast lake – the Nurek reservoir. The dawn mist slowly clears in the village of Chashma, perched high up a valley in southeast Tajikistan, as the laughter and bickering of children is heard in the schoolyard.&nbsp

Speakers at the event included: Mr Justin McGowan, Commissioner General EXPO 2020, Australia, Ms. Dena Assaf, UN Resident Coordinator in UAE, Dr. Moez El Shohdi, President & CEO, Food Banking Regional Network and Ms. Caterina Galluzzi, Deputy Director, UN WFP, GCC. Globally, enough food is produced to feed the world’s 7 billion people, yet 811 million people still go to bed hungry each night.

There are 734 million people going hungry around the world, 122 million more than in 2019, according to newly released UN figures for 2022. Launched last week by agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), ‘The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2023’ (SOFI) report estimates 29.6 percent of the world’s population, around 2.4 billion people,

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

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.

From the contribution, US$13.5 million will be used to help the most desperate in Afghanistan through emergency food distribution and nutrition assistance. In Afghanistan, the economic crisis has worsened since the Taliban takeover in 2021, and one in three people does not know where their next meal will come from.

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

At a time when we were hoping for the release of our colleagues, we are deeply distressed by this reported development.

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)