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.
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 document also sets out the environmental and social (E&S) instruments that shall be adopted and implemented, all of which shall be subject to prior consultation and disclosure.
Once adopted, E&S instruments may be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to Project per
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.
Confusion at warehouses, distribution points with thousands of desperate hungry people, supermarkets with bare shelves, and overcrowded shelters with bursting bathrooms. The dull thud of bombs was the soundtrack for our day.
At a food distribution, one woman told me she lived with nine other families in one apartment.
Uprooted by Somalia’s longest drought in recorded history, 70-year-old Hibo Ahmed and her two daughters have survived on World Food Programme (WFP) cash assistance at a dusty camp for internally displaced people.
Half a world away, Herman Petitfrere is also displaced, after fleeing gang violence in the neighbourhood where he lived, in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
It was conducted between June 2021 and June 2022, covering activities implemented from 2019 to October 2021. It also considered preceding operations to assess the strategic shift expected with the introduction of the CSP.
The evaluation concluded that:
The first CSP for WFP in Chad has been implemented in an extremely challenging context characterised by multiple crises.
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.