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This report is part of a pilot project and research in Southern Iraq in which the Iraq CO is field-testing theories of change on how WFP can contribute to peace or social cohesion in vulnerable and food insecure communities via adaptive livelihoods and resilience programming. The conflict analysis is aimed to provide WFP with an understanding of how shocks and stressors connected to lack of liv

Dialo Koumba knew the violence spreading across her homeland would someday hit her village in western Burkina Faso. But when armed assailants killed her neighbours one night, she and her three co-wives ditched careful plans to sell their livestock before fleeing.  “Our departure was brutal,” recalls Kouma, 50, who has since joined her husband in northern Côte d’Ivoire.

In mid-2021, the fuel and electricity shortages that Lebanon faced as a consequence of the economic crisis became critical, threatening the provision of essential services. Many hospitals and public water supply and wastewater treatment facilities were forced to reduce services, jeopardizing public health and safety amidst the economic crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.

Through this funding, WFP will provide families with food baskets comprising rice, pulses and cooking oil, to meet half their monthly food needs for a period of two months.

The MoU marks the fifth tranche of food aid India committed to in 2020, and will be shipped through Iran’s Chabahar Port.

This document sets out a stakeholder engagement plan (SEP) and related actions to be carried out for the Palestine Emergency Social Protection and Jobs Project – Additional Financing, including, the timeframe of the actions, monitoring and reporting arrangements, grievance management and capacity support. Once adopted, the SEP may be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implem

The programme, closely coordinated with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, was launched in 2016 to boost students’ health, learning and access to education.

During a two-day meeting in the southern Italian city of Siracusa, which ended today, ministers agreed to work to make agriculture and food systems more productive, resilient and sustainable.

Driven by intense monsoon rains since late June, severe flooding has impacted over 200,000 people in Myanmar, with many temporarily displaced.

Despite countries’ high vulnerability to weather- and climate-related disasters most disaster response finance across the Asia Pacific region is arranged and provided post-disaster, typically using budget reallocations, emergency borrowing and humanitarian aid.   There is, however, a wide range of instruments that could potentially be arranged in advance of a shock.