The longest drought in the Horn of Africa’s recorded history has left 4.4 million people in Kenya facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Almost 1.5 million young children and women are acutely malnourished and nearly 3 million livestock have perished.
“The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over.
The El Niño impact is exacerbating the devastating effects of the climate crisis in Malawi. The country is still suffering from the impacts of tropical storms and cyclones in 2022 and 2023 and the compounded effect is to push up to 40 percent of Malawi’s population into hunger, threatening both lives and livelihoods.
The People Policy, approved in June 2021, provides a framework for excellence in people management and to establish mutual accountability between the organization, its managers and all its employees.
BISSAU – A high-level delegation from the Government of the Kingdom of Spain today concluded a two-day visit to Guinea-Bissau to assess progress on a US$ 6.7 million nutrition project funded by the Spanish debt-swap agreement with the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Led by the Spanish Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Antonio González-Zavala Peña,
WFP procured nearly 4,000 metric tons of food, including fortified wheat flour, yellow split peas, fortified vegetable oil and salt. Benefiting from a drop in global food commodity prices, WFP was able to buy one third more food than initially anticipated.