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.
The 2024 FFA Factsheet presents an overview of the programme’s objectives, approach, interventions, and geographical reach, highlighting key impacts and global achievements with evidence and showcasing successful operations in Yemen and Chad.
To get to Zero Hunger, food is not enough. Providing food assistance in an emergency can save lives, but the right nutrition at the right time can also help change lives and break the cycle of poverty.
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.
WFP embraces innovation and has a proven track record of piloting, implementing and scaling new ideas. This is not limited to adopting novel technologies, but includes different ways of designing and executing its programmes.
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.
Ram Bibi and her parents are among nearly more than 7,300 refugee families from Afghanistan and Iraq residing inside 20 settlements across Iran.
Cash assistance from the World Food Programme(WFP) facilitated by donors such as the European Union enables people to buy the foods they need, while in-kind foods such as flour enable families to make food.
Ram Bibi's family moved to Iran
The academy is endorsed by Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Road Safety.
"I salute WFP for the launch of the WFP Road Safety Academy. I am looking forward for the first results of this inspiring initiative which can play a pivotal role in advancing the UN's mission for safer road practices and behaviours,” said Todt.
