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The document provides a roadmap for how WFP will support countries in Asia and the Pacific to achieve their social protection goals. The plan focuses on strengthening social protection to ensure food security, nutrition and basic needs while managing risks and shocks, and builds on decades of experience to consolidate WFP's approach for the coming years.

Since 2018, WFP has worked closely with national governments and partners on an integrated resilience programme in the Sahel countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger.

Energy is vital within humanitarian settings and in vulnerable areas to enable improved livelihoods, preventing shocks and building resilience. It is also a necessary condition for development and underpins the achievement of two-thirds of the SDFs.

Half of the world’s climate-related emergencies have been recorded in Asia and the Pacific, where 72 million people are food-insecure.

The objectives of CLEAR analysis are to inform targeted resilience and adaptation activities, shed light on climate risks, provide a climate lens to monitoring systems, serve as an emergency preparedness and policy tool, and offer recommendations to strengthen household resilience.

2022 was marked by the war in Ukraine and its impact on the heavily import-dependent MENA region. Conflict, displacement, refugees and massive food price inflation resulted in increased hunger across the region.

“Amid already worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition, we are obliged to choose between the hungry and the starving, leaving millions of families scrambling for their next meal,” said Hsiao-Wei Lee, WFP’s Country Director and Representative in Afghanistan.

As world nations gathered in the United Arab Emirates for COP28 to evaluate climate goals and hammer out solutions for methane pollution, fossil fuels and funding shortfalls in climate finance, the World Food Programme (WFP) and partners remained hard at work helping millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cope with the region’s climate emergency. MENA, where climate disas

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.

WFP’s new Strategic Plan focuses on helping rural communities to build resilience to climate change and strengthen livelihoods, while supporting the government’s effort to establish the building blocks of a social protection system that is inclusive, nutrition-sensitive, and climate shocks-responsive. According to the 2022 Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index (1),  Guinea-