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"I am incredibly impressed at the speed of innovation in disaster management in the Philippines," said USAID Philippines Deputy Mission Director Rebekah Eubanks.

The so-called “Kaizen” management approach supports an environment of continuous learning, integration, and innovation in a culture of continuous improvement, based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can reap significant positive developments.

 More than 50 trucks carrying an estimated 4,800 metric tons of World Food Programme (WFP) food and nutrition assistance – enough for around 500,000 people – are stuck in various locations across Sudan, unable to move towards their final destinations due to flooded and impassable roads.The rainy season is exacerbating the already devastating situation in Sudan, as floods force more people fro

Green shoots of promise are pushing up from the conflict-scarred earth of Darfur, in western Sudan. Literally.  Primary schools are growing potatoes. tomatoes and spinach on government-allocated land.

PCRIC and WFP will collaborate on initiatives in disaster risk financing that enhance Pacific Island countries’ resilience against loss and damage resulting from cyclones, floods and droughts, with a particular focus on protecting vulnerable and at-risk populations.

Financially supported by DSM-FIRMENICH - a Swiss-Dutch company specialized in nutrition - the rice fortification initiative targets an initial 236 primary schools supported by WFP in Senegal including 101 schools in the Department of Matam.

“ECOWAS strongly supports Cabo verde National school feeding programme. I have personally benefited from school meals in my home country - The Gambia, as a primary school kid, and this has contributed in making the man I am today”, ECOWAS Commission President, Dr Omar Alieu Touray said.

“Despite an exceptionally complex security situation, WFP is taking important first steps in getting humanitarian supply chains back online and delivering desperately needed assistance to the most difficult neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, WFP Country Director in Haiti. “These improvements need to be extended to the ports in Port-au-Prince, which remain hard-hit by the

“The UK remains committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan,” said UK Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer. “This new funding to the World Food Programme will help more than one million people with vital emergency food and nutrition assistance.