This new contribution will allow WFP to support nearly 600,000 people with food or cash assistance and provide over 250,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and more than 140,000 children with specialized nutritious food, ensuring they receive the critical nutrition and care they need.“Food security in Afghanistan is marginally improving, largely thanks to massive humanitarian assistance from pa
The programme is designed to complement the government’s social assistance paid to the most vulnerable Ukrainians during the war while also supporting a sustainable transition from humanitarian response to more resilient national systems.
Since the programme was launched in August 2023, 400,000 pensioners living in areas of active or possible hostilities have received payments from
Some 345 million people are currently facing high levels of food insecurity, according to WFP analysis, an increase of almost 200 million since early 2020. Of these, 43 million are just one step away from famine. Meanwhile, WFP has recently been forced to cut food rations in operations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Palestine as needs outpace available funding.
Including fortified rice in social assistance programmes represents an enormous opportunity to improve nutrition in India, where micronutrient deficiencies are widespread and programmes reach millions of people.
This factsheet provides a concise overview of the work of the World Food Programme, summarizing the facts, figures and frontline work of the world's largest humanitarian organization saving and changing lives.
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 evaluation covered all WFP activities implemented between 2018 and July 2022 including WFP’s strategic positioning, its effectiveness in contributing to strategic outcomes, the efficiency of CSP implementation and factors explaining WFP’s performance.
The evaluation concluded that:
The CSP was relevant to Senegal's context and WFP is highly valued as a partner by the Government
The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organisation.