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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.

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.

The winning projects from Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru, developed innovative and disruptive solutions to combat hunger in the region.

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

 A map of soil moisture levels – from NASA’s Earth Observatory – makes Southern Africa look like the lung of a person in need of urgent medical care. Red blotches mark concentrations of drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon – a slow-onset wrecker that arrived in July, leaving parched fields and a rise in ‘acute’ hunger in its wake.The solution is simple.

Our approach  WFP integrates sustainability across our programmes and operations by following an Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework (ESSF). This consists of a set of principles, standards and tools, aligned with international regulations, that ensure we operate at the highest possible standards and limits potentially negative impacts on people and the environment. 

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

There are 734 million people going hungry around the world, 122 million more than in 2019, according to newly released UN figures for 2022. Launched last week by agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), ‘The State of Food and Nutrition in the World 2023’ (SOFI) report estimates 29.6 percent of the world’s population, around 2.4 billion people,

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.