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World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Cindy Hensley McCain, took office on 5 April 2023, and brings to the role extensive expertise and a deep commitment to ending hunger and malnutrition. Prior to joining WFP, she served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States Mission to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome.

WFP has operations in 12 countries in southern Africa. This factsheet provides an overview of WFP’s impact and achievements in the region in 2022

Given the unique context and nature of the crisis in Ukraine, WFP and its partners will deploy solutions that build on the existing social protection systems, institutional capacities and market infrastructure to rapidly scale up assistance to meet the needs of up to 6 million displaced and conflict-affected people, contingent upon the availability of sustained funding. WFP’s focus is to reach

To enhance the redemption process of beneficiaries assisted through the National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP) in areas with limited or overcrowded ATMs, WFP and the Ministry of Social Affairs are expanding the redemption points for NPTP assistance to include designated agents of the local Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) - BoB Finance. Through this modality, transport time and cost for ben

“In the aftermath of Kristine, cash assistance serves as a critical lifeline for affected communities to help address some of their most urgent needs – whether food, medicine, or shelter materials. We are working alongside the Philippine Government to support the most impacted communities and by partnering with the DSWD and the 4Ps programme, cash has begun to reach people in a

In 2018, WFP joined forces with governments, financial and operational partners and launched a massive scale up of resilience interventions across the five countries.

This brief presents existing evidence on the role of social protection to address food insecurity and malnutrition, and dives into key strategic opportunities for WFP to accelerate these impacts in Western Africa where there is a growing commitment from governments to develop their social protection systems.   Cette note présente l’état des connaissances sur le rôle de la protection soc

In Timor-Leste, El Niño is expected to negatively affect the affordability of food and imported as well as local retail rice prices were already above previoius year levels in June 2023. Retail prices of other food items were also mostly above their levels in June 2022, especially sugar which peaked at values 113 percent higher year-on-year.

Through the generous support of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), key achievements have been made in Bhutan’s National School Feeding and Nutrition Programme, especially in improved dietary diversity in school meals, procurement of locally produced nutritious foods, and the refurbishment or construction of school kitchens and stores.