From October to December 2022, rainfall across Indonesia was higher than the thirty-year long-term average. The La Niña phenomenon is predicted to continue until it reaches its neutral phase in mid-2023.
2022 was a year of extremes when it came to weather shocks. Record-breaking temperatures, floods, droughts and storms devastated many regions of the world. With the climate crisis accelerating, it is imperative that – in parallel to saving lives – we strengthen the resilience of communities and enable governments to build better risk management systems.
In collaboration with the Government of Burkina Faso, WFP will airlift more than 3,500 metric tons of food consisting of maize meal, pulses, and vegetable oil in 14 localities under blockade in the Sahel region. This assistance is intended to meet the emergency food and nutrition needs of 178,000 women, men, and children.
This joint publication by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Food Programme (WFP) presents the state of school feeding programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as of 2022.
This comes as aid agencies scramble to respond to a fresh wave of refugees fleeing an unimaginable humanitarian crisis unfolding in neighbouring Darfur amid reports of mass killings, rapes, and widespread destruction.
In just the last six months of conflict in Sudan, as many refugees have fled into Chad as had crossed the border in the preceding 20 years starting from the outbreak of the Darfur
WFP’s Annual Performance Report (APR) is produced in line with General Rule VII.2 of the Organization and is the main annual accountability report that presents WFP’s achievements and challenges for the reporting year.
The 2022 report contains detailed SSTC country information for both the SSTC Assistance Fund projects and the SSTC Country Projects, analyses of lessons learned and challenges, development solutions provided by the WFP’s China CoE and proposed next steps that were collected from WFP’s COs.
The last year brought unprecedented challenges for people around the world as they continued to grapple with the effects of climate change. For over a decade, WFP has prioritised advancing financial protection as a means of building resilience to extreme weather events—an essential part of its mandate of saving lives and changing lives.
As WFP's Assistant Executive Director, Programme Operations, Valerie Guarnieri leads WFP's assessment and analysis, programme and policy and supply chain operations, aimed at supporting people and nations to meet needs in emergencies, reduce needs and improve food security.
Nearly a decade of conflict in Yemen has created one of the most severe humanitarian crises. The World Food Programme's (WFP) emergency response is also among the largest in the world, with over 15 million people reached in 2023.