“This is a significant initiative in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to achieve nutritional security in the state, which is focused on food security.
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In Haiti where gang violence compounded by rising global food and fuel prices, have led to protests that have brought the country to a standstill, completely paralyzing economic activities and transport.
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has accrued vast expertise and capacity in supply chain, engineering and emergency telecommunications – often in the most challenging environments. This experience affords WFP the ability to extend its capacity to also support emergency preparedness and medium-long term development efforts, depending on the local context.
Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999.
She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school.
“We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.
Highlights of the WFP and EU partnership in 2022. Find out about our work together as we save lives and build better futures for communities around the globe.
From the contribution, US$13.5 million will be used to help the most desperate in Afghanistan through emergency food distribution and nutrition assistance. In Afghanistan, the economic crisis has worsened since the Taliban takeover in 2021, and one in three people does not know where their next meal will come from.
Civilians in El Fasher and the wider Darfur region are already facing devastating levels of hunger, yet deliveries of food assistance have been intermittent due to fighting and endless bureaucratic hurdles.