“We are excited to partner with this dynamic television programme to ignite a national dialogue and create a better understanding on the importance of nutritious foods and healthy lifestyles,” said Brenda Barton, WFP Country Director in Sri Lanka.
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.
The women of Tawuya farmers group, in the Kambia district of northern Sierra Leone, like to sing as they work. Harvesting sweet potato leaves at sunset one Tuesday, their chorus praises the merits of working with the World Food Programme. WFP recently introduced its home-grown school feeding model here, inviting farmers groups to grow crops for children’s lunchtimes.
Hundreds of truckloads of World Food Programme assistance are speeding this month to the hungriest parts of Sudan, as part of a massively scaled-up response after famine was confirmed at a camp for displaced people in the country’s Darfur region.Targeting an initial 3 million people this month, the WFP food-and-cash support aims to prevent more people from falling into catastrophic hunger, o
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.
The funds will be used to provide electronic food vouchers to 21,560 people for one month to purchase nutritious food of their choice from 200 retail shops across the Gaza Strip.
WFP has been using and expanding the use of vouchers since 2011 based on evidence demonstrating its stronger impact on people’s food security status and positive spill-over effects on the local economy. Vouchers
Since 2008, the U.S. government’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has been supporting the WFP school meals programme in Laos with contributions totaling more than US$60 million.
Approximately US$ 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.