By Kelechi Onyemaobi and George Fominyen
In late December and January, theatregoers in Nigeria will be able to experience of the debut run of BINTU the Musical — created by WFP and Mosaic Theatre Productions. The play is set in Gwoza, a large, rocky town in Borno State, below the Mandarra Mountains, near the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
With the coronavirus pandemic testing health care systems around the world, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and their partners are calling attention to the challenges faced by Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.
Northeast Nigeria remains highly dependent on humanitarian assistance. The impact of the conflict has led to the destruction of houses, limited access to food and disruption of livelihood activities.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining a healthy diet is more important than ever. With major disruptions expected in food systems, ensuring access to nutritious foods is paramount. It's also critical to dispel myths and misconceptions.
With 17.3 percent of the world’s population and 24.5 percent of world’s undernourished population, India bears a huge burden of global food insecurity. Despite some recent improvements in the nutritional status of children, the rates are still very high, as are micronutrient deficiencies.
In January 2016, WFP Nigeria started remote phone-based data collection and food security monitoring using the mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) approach to conduct household surveys and key informant/trader surveys.
In Lao PDR, 44 percent of children under 5 years of age are stunted as a result of a poor diet, often lacking in essential micronutrients, fats and proteins as well as experiencing recurrent illness.
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) is a strategic partnership between Oxfam America (OA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). R4 was initiated in 2011 to respond to the challenges faced by food-insecure communities enduring increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters and other shocks.