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With WFP’s assistance, the Government will commence the second phase of take-home rations distribution to 1.2 million children enrolled in the National School Meal Programme. This initiative is funded by the Government with a contribution of US$6 million (approximately LKR1.2 Billion) and WFP with a contribution of US$200,000 (approximately LKR40 million).

While severe food insecurity in the region remained largely unchanged, when compared to February 2022, there has been a significant increase in households that have fallen into moderate levels of food insecurity. Overall, the number of food insecure people has increased by 1.3 million over the past six months.

The evaluation is commissioned to measure the performance of the livelihoods programme to improve future programming and is intended for both accountability and learning purposes.

A small white UNHAS Dash 8 airplane taxis down the rough tarmac of tiny Beni airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, raising a cloud of dust on a sunny morning – along with hopes for this conflict-torn region. This is not just a routine flight. It is a lifeline.

A list of the Inspector General's Annual Reports by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), filtered by year.

Mohamed Ismail Hamza, a Sudanese national who worked as an Aviation Associate in El Geneina Area office, was travelling with his wife Halima and their two children, Hamza (4) and Huzaifa (2). The plane crashed shortly after taking off from El Geneina airport in West Darfur on Thursday 2 January.

The contribution is especially timely, given that many in the country will struggle to feed themselves at the peak of the lean season because of successive drought and chronic economic challenges, aggravated by the impacts of the situation in Ukraine.  “In collaboration with WFP, the Government of Japan continues to deliver support from the people of Japan to the most vulnerable people in

In the Sahel and West Africa, 26 million people currently do not have sufficient food during the ongoing harvest season (October-December 2021) which should mark the start of the end of the lean season, according to a just-released Cadre Harmonisé (CH) report on food security.

To drive into a refugee settlement in Uganda is to drive into hope.

WFP's Country Office in Jordan responds to the food needs of 1 million vulnerable refugees and Jordanians through numerous activities defined within the WFP Jordan-Country Strategic Plan (2020 - 2022), including the provision of food assistance to refugees in camps and communities, support for income-generating and training opportunities for vulnerable Jordanians and refugees in communities, and s