Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
It was conducted between June 2021 and June 2022, covering activities implemented from 2019 to October 2021. It also considered preceding operations to assess the strategic shift expected with the introduction of the CSP.
The evaluation concluded that:
The first CSP for WFP in Chad has been implemented in an extremely challenging context characterised by multiple crises.
The event, co-organised by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), will focus global attention on the vital role that empowered female farmers, entrepreneurs and leaders need to play so that women can contribute on equal terms to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and in creatin
“The Republic of Korea has been a committed partner in Uganda, providing much needed support as we have sought to sustain an operation assisting 1.27 million refugees in Uganda, 82 percent of who are women and children,” said WFP Country Director El-Khidir Daloum.
Daloum said the new contribution was especially welcome as it will cover another one to two months of humanitarian assistance at a t
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.
With Somalia facing the risk of famine, half a million Kenyans one step away from catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition rates in Ethiopia well above emergency thresholds, time is fast running out for families who are struggling to survive.
As schools in Venezuela are currently closed, WFP will provide take-home rations that include rice, lentils, salt and vegetable oil, prioritizing school children under the age of six in areas most affected by food insecurity.
Through this funding, over 1,000 smallholder farmers across five drought-prone districts are being provided with LKR 50,000 each (approximately US$140) to access essential items, including food. The funding will also support recovery among communities grappling with the twin challenges of the economic and climate crises.
Kisimba Emedi remembers waking to sounds of gunfire edging closer to her home in the southeastern village of Tundwa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“We knew we had no time to lose,” she says as she prepares fish for dinner for her children, whom she “grabbed … and ran into the forest” on that night of terror.
Gunshots rang out and the adults were on edge, fearing that the small