Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
This decentralized endline evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Bangladesh Country Office and covers the USDA McGovern Dole 2017-2020 grant. It was carried out in 2020 and finalized in 2021.
The endline evaluation was commissioned under the requirements of the USDA grant and serves several critical purposes intended for accountability and learning.
The number of children who are out of school is expected to increase by a further 5 million by 2030.
“The magnitude of people on the move has threatened a whole generation, overwhelmed host communities, straining already limited resources and increasing social tensions,” said Hamed Al Hammami, Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States.
Good news comes with a catch in Haiti. Of course, it’s good news that the 19,200 people who faced ‘famine-like’ conditions in October no longer do. This was against the odds, with the World Food Programme (WFP) working with its implementing partners to reel people back from the brink, gaining access to Cité Soleil.
Hunger levels remain extremely worrying however.
The UN team included the United Nations Children’s Fund, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organisation, United Nations Population Fund and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Sudan.
Parts of southern Blue Nile State have been inaccessible to UN agencies and most humanitarian groups since conflict began there and in the Nuba mountains of South Kord
This means over 2.2 million people – most of them living in rural areas - face severe levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and August and need urgent support to avert the loss of lives and livelihoods, finds the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today.
One third of the population (over 1.6 million people) are in a Crisis situat
This report is part of a pilot project and research in Southern Iraq in which the Iraq CO is field-testing theories of change on how WFP can contribute to peace or social cohesion in vulnerable and food insecure communities via adaptive livelihoods and resilience programming.
The conflict analysis is aimed to provide WFP with an understanding of how shocks and stressors connected to lack of liv