The publication "Ensuring Sustainable Financing of School Meals in West Africa" explores the importance of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes, which provide nutritious, locally-sourced meals to schoolchildren. These programmes support local economies and enhance children's education and health.
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.
Up to 24 million people could slip into emergency hunger over the next 12 months, according to new figures from the World Food Programme (WFP) – the UN organization is being forced to make drastic cuts to most of its operations as funding plummets.
WFP’s new calculation concludes that every 1 percent cut to its food assistance means 400,000 pushed from crisis to emergency hunger.
The drop of the oil price in the third quarter of 2014 and the consequent slowdown of the Nigerian economy has posed major challenges for public finances. Policy decisions and the disruption of the oil production due to the recent surge in terrorist activities in the Niger Delta are exacerbating the crisis.
An El Nino event active since March 2015 will almost certainly last through 2015 and is likely to extend into early 2016.
The intensity of this event is increasing with a peak expected in the last quarter of 2015 and there is a significant chance that it may become one of the strongest events of the past 30 years.
The timing of the event means that it will influence all growing seasons of