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On July 2020, WFP Bangladesh delivered anticipatory cash transfers as early as 4 days before severe flood impact, which was 100 days earlier compared to WFP’s flood response in 2019. The study concludes that anticipatory action in predictable crises is essential to avoid irreversible welfare costs.

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.

 A map of soil moisture levels – from NASA’s Earth Observatory – makes Southern Africa look like the lung of a person in need of urgent medical care. Red blotches mark concentrations of drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon – a slow-onset wrecker that arrived in July, leaving parched fields and a rise in ‘acute’ hunger in its wake.The solution is simple.

Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flash flooding, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Food and energy prices remain stubbornly high as the impact of the conflict in Sudan reverberates around the region.  “Conflict, cli

WFP is being forced to drastically cut rations in most of its operations as international humanitarian funding plummets.

It is the first passenger flight into the region since commercial flights were halted on 24 June and carried more than 30 employees from multiple humanitarian organisations working to deliver urgently needed assistance to conflict-affected communities across Tigray. “WFP and our fellow emergency responders on the ground in Mekelle are all enormously relieved to see this UNHAS flight arrive toda

Lebanon is experiencing one of the most severe economic crises in its modern history, with over 2 million Lebanese vulnerable and in need of assistance. The gendered impact of the crisis translates into higher unemployment rates amongst women 43 percent in December 2021 compared to 18 percent amongst men (WFP Food Security Report July 2022).

Deborah recalls watching half a dozen elderly men walking towards her home in Bukavu, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu’s province.

WFP’s lean season response works to boost national governments’ efforts in tackling hunger as they grapple with the combined effects of conflict, the climate crisis, and soaring costs of food and fuel.

As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical. WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.