The Pakistan floods – which inundated a third of the country - claimed over 1,700 lives, uprooted eight million people, and destroyed homes, schools, health facilities, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
WFP requires US$161 million immediately to avert a suspension of its refugee assistance programme over the next six months and provide life-saving assistance to crisis-affected communities in Chad including 519,000 Sudanese and Central African refugees.
Refugee communities in Chad already face severe malnutrition levels, with some areas seeing acute malnutrition rates of over 19% and chronic ma
Despite efforts to make resources stretch through prioritisation schemes, meaning food assistance is prioritised for the most vulnerable families, the sheer number of refugees in need of support has grown, along with the gap between resourcing and needs.
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.
It’s vital that at this time of global crisis WFP maintain its food assistance programmes which offer a lifeline to 87 million vulnerable people around the world. WFP’s top priority is to ensure it has the resources in place to meet the food and nutrition needs of the people that so depend on its assistance.
The pandemic is affecting countries in different ways.
The UN World Food Programme warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence. The displacement has left at least 730,000 people in Cabo Delgado with no access to their lands and no means of earning a living.
Dorati Ndagisa’s loss is achingly familiar in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting has uprooted millions of people, feeding Africa’s biggest hunger crisis.
Chased by armed groups from her farm in DRC’s troubled eastern Nord Kivu province, she and her five children are now destitute.
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.
The World Food Programme has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and health initiatives, and working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national programmes.
Insecurity in and around Port-au-Prince has been drastically worsening since early May, disrupting nation-wide supply chains, access to basic services like markets, schools and hospitals and livelihoods of Haitians across the country.