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 A shy smile lights up Rainatou’s face as she talks about her former profession: weaving traditional Fulani mats from her home in northern Burkina Faso.

The evaluation was commissioned to document achievements and the potential to improve access to and quality of education for girls through JPGE's holistic and human rights-based approach, the operational processes, successes and challenges and JPGE’s contributions to Government capacity building and the potential to implement similar programmes in the future.

Elizabeth Nyamayaro knows her ducks and, especially, her mission. Her intel on ducks comes from southern Egypt, where a World Food Programme (WFP) project built resilience and women’s empowerment in a deeply conservative community. Her mission was forged from battling extreme hunger as a child in rural Zimbabwe.

At the request of the Government of Sri Lanka, a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) took place in June and July 2022 to analyse the country’s agricultural production in 2022, particularly of the main staple cereals, and to assess households’ food security conditions.

https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000117724/download/The latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, published today, estimates that almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019 – up by 10 million from 2018, and by nearly 60 million in five years. High costs and low affordability also mean billions cannot eat healthily or nutritiously.

With almost 4 million people in need of emergency food assistance in Tigray, WFP needs to transport over 10,000 metric tons of food and 150,000 litres of fuel every week on behalf of the humanitarian sector. “WFP welcomes clearance from the Government of Ethiopia for this convoy’s safe passage into Tigray region,” said WFP Emergency Coordinator Tommy Thompson.

Hosted by Italy, the Pre-Summit will be held in Rome from 26-28 July, with a vast programme and platform. Earlier this month, the UN’s SOFI report (or The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2021), confirmed the World Food Programme’s (WFP) worst fears — up to 811 million people went hungry last year as the combined effects of conflict, climate extremes and the coronavirus

Mr. President, thank you for inviting me to brief the Security Council on the dire hunger emergency unfolding in Somalia.

It was conducted between October 2020 and July 2021 to assess WFP’s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which WFP has made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency and factors that explain WFP performance. The evaluation concluded that: The CSP achieved positive results across all outcomes, with significant contributi

It was conducted between July 2020 and October 2021 to assess WFP’s strategic positioning and role and the extent to which WFP has made the strategic shift expected by the CSP; WFP’s contributions to strategic outcomes; efficiency and factors that explain WFP performance. The evaluation concluded that: WFP was well aligned with national and policies and UN plans.