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Recent contributions from donors have averted wide-scale cuts that would have affected a larger number of people, but resources still fall well short of meeting the needs of all vulnerable refugees in Jordan. WFP urgently needs US$58 million to continue food assistance until the end of the year for the half million refugees it supports. “Desperate times call for desperate measures.

The LRP program design, as per the USDA requirement, required an activity evaluation to critically evaluate its implementation and performance to generate recommendations that are replicable in other geographic areas. Objectives of the evaluation are twofold: (a) Accountability: This evaluation assessed the USDA LRP performance and results of the implementation; and (b) Learning: The evaluation

The primary beneficiaries targeted were Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) and their children under two years of age within the national safety net of Takaful and Karama managed by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS).  This Evaluation serves the dual and mutually reinforcing objectives of accountability and learning.

To help people prepare for flash floods expected over the coming days, WFP transferred BDT 4,100 (around US$48) to 1,320 vulnerable Bangladeshi families in Teknaf.

The core purpose of the MTE was to examine if the JPGE III objectives and outcomes were on track and recommend possible intervention changes for the remaining timeline for phase III of the project implementation and to guide future initiatives with similar goals. The evaluation was intended for both accountability and learning purposes.

“It’s precisely in emergency contexts, where it is most crucial, that breastfeeding can be most challenging,” says Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), as the organization marks World Breastfeeding Week.   “Women may be constantly on the move, on physically exhausting journeys. Conditions may be overcrowded, or traumatic.

“We are very grateful to Viet Nam for stepping up to assist people living in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps,” said Richard Ragan, WFP Representative and Country Director.

In May 2015, WFP established an operational presence in the eastern region with one area office in Kramatorsk and two sub-offices in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk. Starting July 2015, WFP will scale up its activities in eastern Ukraine to reach cumulative total of over 387,000 people by December 2015.

Women and girls are often said to be at the front line of hunger, which affects 828 million people around the world – why?  “If women have lower education rates, limited access to land inheritance, land ownership, credit, information such as weather forecasts [critical for smallholder farmers, many of whom are women], market information, limits on having capital assets, then we cannot

ROME/DOHA – Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has signed an agreement with the World Food Programme for a generous contribution of US$90 million supporting humanitarian operations to address critical food security needs in Yemen, where conflict, economic decline and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions in danger of slipping into famine. The agreement formalizes an announceme