Responding to the impacts of Covid-19, the Home Grown School Feeding project will provide nutritious and safe school meals to vulnerable primary school children by linking the National School Meal Programme with local smallholder farmers.
A lower-middle-income country with over 26 million people, Cameroon ranks 153 out of 189 countries in the 2020 Human Development Index. While the country experienced consistent economic growth averaging 4.3 percent per year for a decade up to 2019, poverty levels have remained steady.
School-based programmes such as free meals, vaccinations and deworming can be game-changers for school-age children and adolescents, especially from poorer backgrounds, the report says.
Thirty-one thousand people are facing famine-like conditions in Yemen – by June 161,000 people will be at risk, according to the latest IPC (Integrated Food Phase Classification) figures, the global standard for measuring food insecurity. They are at IPC phase 5 – or ‘catastrophe’, while an additional 1.6 million people in the country are expected to fall into IPC 4 – ‘emergency’ levels
The funds will also help WFP to provide special nutritious foods to treat and prevent moderately acute malnutrition among children under five, and pregnant and nursing women.
“This contribution has come at the right time as it will cover the urgent needs of refugees in the first months of the year,” said WFP Representative and Country Director in Algeria Imed Khanfir.
Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
It asked seven synthesis questions to examine the extent to which WFP’s Normative Framework for Monitoring allowed for effective measurement at country level and enabled corporate performance reporting.
This joint study by the Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) Division and the School–Based Programme (SBP) Service aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted school–aged children and youth through a global web survey conducted across seven countries Cambodia, Colombia, Ghana, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya and Zimbabwe from May to July 2021.