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The evaluation focused on assessing the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, coverage, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the programme as well as gender equality and women’s empowerment and equity.  The evaluation objectives included: (1) to assess the extent of achievement of the results and targets set out in the Joint Program Results Framework; (2) to understand the extent to which t

“Conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks: the Horn of Africa region is facing multiple crises simultaneously.

“Conflict, displacement and disease have taken a devastating toll on the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pushing millions into hunger and desperation. But WFP’s food assistance is providing a lifeline to many of these people, preventing them from being overwhelmed by starvation and famine,” said Beasley. “We urgently need more funding to continue this vital work.

By 2050, climate change could cause a 20 percent increase in hunger and malnutrition.

Last year and during the opening months of 2019, millions of people in Afghanistan were affected by a catastrophic drought.

Fast-depleting funds are forcing the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food and cash-for-food assistance for nearly half of the 5.5 million people it supports in Syria, from July.

“With Afghanistan, it was love at first sight.” Susana Rico, a World Food Programme (WFP) veteran who is now heading the organization’s newly opened office in Venezuela, recalls the days when she landed in Kabul on her first field assignment, as Deputy Country Director. It was 2002 and a new government was being formed.

Humanitarian principles All of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s humanitarian work is guided by the core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

“When we saw bombs in our square, the place where I live, where I was born, where I work, it was the minute where I understood what has happened,” says Nina, a university professor who fled Kharkiv for Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, as she struggles to hold back tears. Nina is among 7 million people left internally displaced following the start of the war in Ukraine.

The humanitarian situation in Yemen is dire and worsening, with over 18 million people, including 14 million women and children, affected by conflict, climate change, recurring disease and critical economic conditions.