Despite progress in access to education over the years, more than 32 million children remain out of school, the largest share of any geographical regions.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has long enlisted the voluntary services and support of prominent figures as Goodwill Ambassadors, Advocates and High-Level Supporters to help bring attention to global hunger.
It’s difficult to believe that a mere two hours’ flight from Miami, a staggering 4.7 million people – half of Haiti’s population – are in the throes of a food crisis.
Co-led by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) is committed to saving lives through the coordination of appropriate, efficient and well-resourced food security responses in major emergencies.
Refugee Al Roumat Ali fled armed violence in her native Niger nearly a decade ago. Today, she lives on the Chadian shores of Lake Chad, having depended entirely on World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian assistance to survive.Unrest in their native Chad also uprooted Ali Nguila and her seven children.
Whether saving lives in emergencies or working with communities to improve food security and nutrition, the World Food Programme (WFP) cannot achieve its mission without its employees maintaining the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
The evaluation was commissioned to assess (a) whether targeted beneficiaries received services as expected and (b) if the project met its stated goals and objectives in line with the results frameworks and assumptions, and in contrast to the baseline and mid-term findings.
More than 370,000 people have been forced to leave their homes and make their way to Afghanistan since the Government of Pakistan announced in October that all undocumented foreigners would be deported.
We visited Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, where the World Food Programme (WFP) is supplying cash to help families cover their most basic food needs.
WFP is on the ground alongside othe