The longest drought in the Horn of Africa’s recorded history has left 4.4 million people in Kenya facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Almost 1.5 million young children and women are acutely malnourished and nearly 3 million livestock have perished.
“The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over.
The visit included signing an agreement between the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and WFP on a regional adaptation project to build the capacity of smallholder farmers, especially women, in dryland areas. “WFP is proud to have such strong, productive relationships in India”, said Guarnieri.
The El Niño impact is exacerbating the devastating effects of the climate crisis in Malawi. The country is still suffering from the impacts of tropical storms and cyclones in 2022 and 2023 and the compounded effect is to push up to 40 percent of Malawi’s population into hunger, threatening both lives and livelihoods.
WFP’s new Strategic Plan focuses on helping rural communities to build resilience to climate change and strengthen livelihoods, while supporting the government’s effort to establish the building blocks of a social protection system that is inclusive, nutrition-sensitive, and climate shocks-responsive.
According to the 2022 Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index (1), Guinea-
The funding, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), will support the Government's priorities in achieving food security and broadening access to high-quality nutrition by boosting Tajik youth, creating links to equitable and sustainable access to specialized knowledge, innovation, and a more favourable business environment.
“The South Korean Government has officially design
The People Policy, approved in June 2021, provides a framework for excellence in people management and to establish mutual accountability between the organization, its managers and all its employees.
It covers WFP activities implemented between 2019 and 2022 to assess results and the extent to which WFP Namibia was able to implement the strategic shift intended by the CSP.
The evaluation concluded that:
Overall, the CSP remained relevant and aligned to government priorities throughout the period under review and facilitated strategic thinking about partnerships and funding opportunities
BISSAU – A high-level delegation from the Government of the Kingdom of Spain today concluded a two-day visit to Guinea-Bissau to assess progress on a US$ 6.7 million nutrition project funded by the Spanish debt-swap agreement with the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Led by the Spanish Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Antonio González-Zavala Peña,