Established in 2018, the knowledge partnership between SIPRI and the World Food Programme (WFP) aims to assess whether WFP’s programming contributes to improving the prospects for peace, and if so, explaining how - while at the same time asking whether the programming has any unwanted negative effects.
Hungry, thirsty and weak, more and more Gazans are falling sick, according to a report published this week.
At least 90 per cent of children aged under 5 are affected by one or more infectious diseases, with 70 percent having had diarrhoea in the past two weeks, according to analysis from the Global Nutrition Cluster.
“An immediate humanitarian ceasefire continues to provide the best cha
Rome—The UN World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the COP28 and COP29 presidencies have today called for an urgent scaling up of climate action and financing for adapted and resilient agrifood systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
The call was made during a high-level Rome meeting in
Sadiya starts her day early by letting out her goats from her backyard barn at Bokolmayo refugee camp, a collection of makeshift houses in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Whistling cheerfully, she leads them first to a water point nearby, then farther away to find a good grazing spot amid the cracked land.
At 69, Olga Lima has seen her fair share of droughts, floods and hurricanes in her native Dominican Republic. As she prepares lunch one recent morning, she recalls last year’s disasters that left her community reeling.
First a storm pummeled her town of Castañuelas, 20 km from the country’s northern coast.
This compendium aims to highlight joint efforts of The Government of India and UNWFP India in ensuring food security during the COVID-19 crisis in India by swift and efficient response through India’s Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), ensuring inter and intra State Portability of Ration Cards in TPDS through One Nation One Ration Card Scheme, reducing transportation cost through Supply C
In this overarching brief, WFP synthesises the results and lessons from five NECD briefs, covering 22 initiatives across 25 countries and implemented with 49 partners:
Mapping evaluation capacities
Technical assistance to governments
Supporting joint and supporting country-led evaluations
Collaborating with VOPEs and other evaluation stakeholders
Global advocacy
The bri
The Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Kurdistan Regional Government launched this new partnership with the three UN Agencies in line with their vision to develop an effective social protection response and to accelerate reform.
The world is facing an education catastrophe that could rob generations of a promising future. This is why UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO and WFP are coming together to call on global leaders to act now and invest in school health and nutrition in national, regional and global recovery plans to Save Our Future.
The 2020 Extraordinary session of the Global Education Meeting marked a critical moment.
This resource framework is intended as a guidance tool for the design, implementation and monitoring of home-grown school feeding programmes. It was jointly produced by WFP, FAO, IFAD, NEPAD, GCNF and PCD.