The World Food Programme (WFP) uses cash transfers to empower people with choice to address their essential needs in local markets, while also helping to boost these markets. In 2019, WFP transferred a record-high US$2.1 billion of purchasing power to people in 64 countries. This represented 38 percent of WFP’s total assistance portfolio for the year.
It’s 10:00 when Brian Langdon, deputy Logistics Cluster coordinator in charge of the COVID-19 response plan in South Sudan, gets his first call of the day. A newly arrived World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian kicking off two weeks quarantine in Juba is checking in.
Living in a small house with mud-thatched walls which provides the only respite from the intense heat, Romesha and her family are no strangers to the effects of climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic, interruption in international supply chains, and the war in Ukraine have severely disrupted food, fuel, and fertilizer markets, which are interlinked.
As world nations gathered in the United Arab Emirates for COP28 to evaluate climate goals and hammer out solutions for methane pollution, fossil fuels and funding shortfalls in climate finance, the World Food Programme (WFP) and partners remained hard at work helping millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cope with the region’s climate emergency.
MENA, where climate disas
Approximately US$ 2 million from the Korean government's donation is for food and cash assistance, logistics support for the recent UN Flash appeal for Ukraine, and US$ 1 million is for WFP’s aid to refugees from Ukraine in Moldova. This is the second contribution from Korea since the Ukraine crisis.
With a generous contribution from Canada, of 10 million Canadian dollars, WFP started this project to support access to education for Egyptians and Syrians alike.