Between 2018-2022, the integrated resilience programme reached nearly 610,000 beneficiaries in 262 villages across 14 regions in the Sahel, benefitting from climate-smart asset creation activities, school meals, nutrition, and smallholder market support.
The PDS is Iraq’s biggest social safety net, providing food entitlements to almost the entire population in Iraq of 39 million people.
WFP is providing technical support to the government as it starts using identification technology and a citizen database to reduce processing time, improve service and maximise resources.
“The initiative guarantees the most efficient use of government resourc
“Iraq is still dealing with building a state fit for the future so that more citizens can return in dignity,” said Jochen Möller, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Iraq.
Despite operational and security difficulties, WFP and its partners distributed food assistance last week to nearly 30,000 in Mazraq camps for internally displaced people and Kharaz camp for refugees.
All UN international staff has been temporarily evacuated from Yemen.
On Tuesday, food distributions through WFP’s partner LibAid had already reached 2,000 people who had fled Derna and arrived in the city of Benghazi. On Wednesday, WFP was distributing food to about 700 flood-affected families in four locations of Derna city.
“These devastating floods have struck in a country where a profound political crisis has already left so many in a desperate situation.
Highlights
• WFP is currently facing a very critical resource and food
shortfall and is urgently seeking US$ 40 million for its programme
implementation in 2014. The food shortfall is occurring
ahead of the winter season, making it difficult for
WFP to pre-position food for life-saving activities in districts
that are difficult to access during winter.
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
Food fortification is the addition of important micronutrients to foods, like rice, to enhance its nutritional value safely and cost-effectively. While the fortification of salt, fish sauce, and soy sauce with iodine and/or folate has been practiced for a number of years in Cambodia, rice fortification is still relatively new to the country.