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WFP Country Director El-Khidir Daloum thanked the European Union, Ireland and the United Kingdom for providing an additional €3.5 million, €1 million and £6.8 million respectively, as well as the United States of America, which contributed US$15 million more to WFP last year compared to 2019 and 2018. Ireland brought forward its original contribution for 2020 by four months because of urgent ne

“Life amidst a pandemic: Hunger, migration and displacement in the East and Horn of Africa,” focuses on the pandemic’s impacts on mobility, livelihoods and food security in regional migration and hunger hotspots. “Migrants, refugees and other forcibly displaced persons are among the most disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups globally and understanding their needs, and our progress towards me

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.

World Food Programme (WFP) cameraman Marco Frattini, just back from Yemen, reflects on his experience documenting the world's largest humanitarian crisis. Help WFP save lives in Yemen. Donate now. I was in Hajjah when I learned that Mohamed, a little boy I had photographed a few days before at Al Sabeen hospital in Sana'a, had died.

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