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.
Despite its vast natural resources, the DRC faces the largest hunger crisis in the world. The country continues to experience prolonged conflict – particularly in the east – contributing to large-scale population displacements, disrupting agricultural activities and impeding access to markets, schools and healthcare.
Two consecutive seasons of poor harvests led to a nearly 50 percent drop in production coupled with reduced imports of food grains due to foreign exchange constraints, according to the joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report.
The report notes that immediate food assistance and livelihood programmes - including through existing social assistance mechanisms – are cr
The assessment aims to inform UN WFP India’s pilot project in Varanasi and Dhenkenal on the capacity building of Cook cum Helpers in the MDM scheme, which guarantees one meal to all school-going children from class 1 to class 8 to improve enrolment, retention, and attendance in addition to enhancing their nutritional levels.
“I had no idea how to manage money and how to save money, because I had no schooling and no education,” says Gracia who lives in the town of Nyunzu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s southeastern province of Tanganyika.
A vendor of spices and smoked fish, Gracia had been unable to balance her accounts. “I got further into debt,” she adds.
Conflict, climate shocks, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and rising costs of living are leaving increasing numbers of children acutely malnourished while key health, nutrition and other life-saving services are becoming less accessible.