Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
Between June and August 2022, the World Food Programme completed the evaluation and conducted a total of 7,097 household and travel group surveys, ensuring representative samples for five population groups: i) Venezuelan migrants with a vocation for permanence, ii) migrants Venezuelans in transit, iii) commuting Venezuelan migrants, iv) Colombian returnees and v) host communities.
The new contribution comes at a time when food insecure families are facing a tough and dangerous winter.
“While the world is struggling with a global upsurge in food and energy prices, vulnerable families in Syria have nothing left to cope with another winter,” says Kenn Crossley, Representative and Country Director of WFP in Syria.
As a legal body entrusted with the authority to regulate the safety and quality of food and medicine, the FDCC plays a key role in ensuring that all imported food and drugs meet the Libyan standard specifications.
Libya imports 80 percent of its food consumption requirements, and up to 90 percent of its cereal requirements.
Around 930 tonnes of rice and 120 tonnes of canned fish to be procured by WFP with the support of China’s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund (GDSSCF) for top up lunches of some 130,000 students in 1,400 primary schools across the country.
Inaugurated by Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Lao PDR, Counsellor Xiang Fangqiang, and Minister
The latest WFP surveys show that hunger is rising sharply in Sri Lanka, where nearly half of the households interviewed were facing challenges in accessing food, amid income losses, record levels of food price inflation, disruptions to the food supply chain and severe shortages of basic commodities including fuel.
“Millions of the poorest Sri Lankans can no longer afford an adequate d
IDAFLW aims to raise awareness about food loss, waste issues and possible solutions, to promote global efforts and collective actions toward meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 12.3 that aims at halving per capita global food waste at retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses by 2030.
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Some 2,500 families with one or more members with disabilities will receive the assistance. The cash amount will vary depending on the number of disabled members per family.
The Joint SDG Fund – an inter-agency mechanism for integrated policy support and strategic financing – provided US$456,000 to finance the intervention.
Thanks to a US$ 2.4 million contribution from USAID, WFP plans to distribute a total of 500 tonnes of rice rations to some 10,000 households (50,000 people) in the coming days. Each household will receive 50kgs of rice to help them with their basic food needs. The first batch of rice was distributed yesterday in Dinagat. WFP is working with local partners CARE Philippines and ACCORD Inc.
This marks a new phase of the programme where the Ministry of Education begins to directly take over the implementation of the programme and provision of the school meals.