Schools in Gaza are packed with families who’ve lost their homes and family members to the bombings that have displaced almost its entire population of 2.2 million people.
The same is true of Gaza’s remaining hospitals.
McCain takes up the vital role at a time when the unprecedented global food crisis is pushing millions of people deeper into hunger, with a particular impact on the lives of women and girls.
“Hunger puts more people- particularly women and children - at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse,” said McCain and stressed that "Seeking food or humanitarian assistance should never be a choice to sacr
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This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Ethiopia Country Office and covers the five-year school feeding programme in Afar and Oromia regions in Ethiopia (2019-2024), funded by McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The decentralized baseline evaluation was carried out from 2020 to 2
This document sets out environmental and social safeguard measures and actions to be carried out for the Palestine Emergency Social Protection and Jobs Project – Additional Financing, including, the timeframe of the actions, monitoring and reporting arrangements, grievance management and capacity support.
Once adopted, E&S instruments may be revised from time to time if necessary, during Projec
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
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Windows shattered by nearby airstrikes. Children crying out from conflict’s psychological blowback. The sense of a hangman’s noose growing ever tighter. These are some of the stories shared by World Food Programme Gaza employees. Like for hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians on the Strip, there is no escaping the 10-month-old war.
WFP continues to deliver emergency food assistance in Haiti alongside programmes that help tackle root causes of hunger. However, the recent uptick in violence has prevented WFP from reaching more than 370,000 of most food insecure Haitians since early February.