School meals are a great investment in the health, education and wellbeing of children and a genuine catalyst in the Global Goal of ending hunger by 2030.
This WFP study sought to explore how cash-based interventions (CBI) can contribute to achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment, as ends in themselves and for food security and nutrition outcomes.
Almost half of Afghanistan’s population – 19.7 million people – are facing acute hunger according to the global standard for food insecurity, the IPC or Integrated Food Phase Classification.
The key objective of this evaluation was to produce new evidence for operational and strategic decision-making to inform the second phase of the R4 rural resilience initiative and the Zimbabwe Country office’s approach to resilience building programming to be adopted in the 2021-2025 Country Strategic Plan.
This report summarizes the results of the post distribution monitoring (PDM) conducted in June/July 2015 with Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Kachin, northern Shan and Rakhine States receiving unconditional food assistance (emergency relief) provided by WFP.
It was carried out in 2019. The evaluation was commissioned to inform operational and strategic decision-making for future similar or alternate programming and was intended for both accountability and learning purposes.
“Providing food assistance to the most vulnerable families during these uncertain times is important,” said Peter Natiello, Mission Director for USAID Afghanistan.
“Cyclical violence in C.A.R. is destroying the lives of millions of people, many of whom are left destitute and hungry,” said Gian Carlo Cirri, WFP Representative in the Central African Republic.
The principal of Severynivka’s primary school sent the children and teachers home in April. They are yet to return. Gone are the familiar sounds of children chattering or echoing school bells along the pristine corridors.