In 2022, high inflation, reduced access to basic services, and increasing social tensions because of the severe economic crisis continued to drive high levels of poverty and food insecurity.
The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organization.
The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the effectiveness of CCS interventions, recommending adjustments for future implementation. The evaluation made considerations to environmental risk and gender-related issues, to supplement evidence to the government and its partners' capacity to achieve zero hunger.
The surveys were conducted from October 2022 to March 2023 to understand the food security situation of households in the Philippines. From the results, we gained an improved understanding of the differential impacts of the global crisis on regions and households.
The report gives an overview of WFP’s global social protection engagements in 2022, categorized across key elements of the WFP Strategy for Support to Social Protection. It presents WFP’s work at policy and programmes levels, giving insights on key social protection stories.
Escalating violence has led to mass displacements within Lebanon, requiring WFP to scale up its emergency food assistance to reach up to one million
people. WFP was well prepared and is already providing hot meals, ready-to-eat rations, food parcels and cash assistance daily to nearly 160,000 people in shelters.
Food prices are skyrocketing and many countries in the region are dealing with crippling budget deficits, high levels of public debt, currency devaluation and dangerous levels of inflation.
Five countries in the region have seen food inflation going beyond 60 percent just this year with Lebanon and Syria facing triple-digit food inflation at 138 percent and 105 percent respectively.
