Over the years, Pakistan has become a food surplus country and a major producer of wheat which it distributes to needy populations through various mechanisms, including the World Food Programme (WFP).
WFP‘s focus is on strengthening and supporting the Government‘s efforts to deliver equitable and inclusive economic growth and advance human capital development.
Last March, flash floods swept through large areas, affecting 25 out of Iran’s 31 provinces, with Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces being the worst affected.
In March, WFP had to reduce its life-saving food vouchers from US$ 12 to US$ 10 per person per month. With the funding gap persisting, starting 1 June WFP will have no choice but to decrease the voucher value for a second time – from US$ 10 to US$ 8.
Six years into the refugee crisis, the Rohingya rely completely on humanitarian assistance to survive.
For the first time since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, UN and multilateral agencies from across health, education, agriculture, WASH, and social welfare sectors have come together to make a renewed commitment to school health and nutrition.
The contribution is a continuation of funding for the Integrated Risk Management Programme that reaches out to smallholder farmers with climate-smart interventions, weather information services, micro-insurance against hostile weather conditions and links farmers to markets.
“We want to sustain the achievements made in phase one of the programme and expand our scale to reach out to more vulnera
A generation of children in Yemen — where the World Food Programme (WFP) provides food assistance to more than 13 million people — are growing up knowing only war. Up to one in four children are acutely malnourished in parts of the country, which for more than five years has been in the throes of conflict.