What factors enable social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks?
This is the main research question of the Study on Shock-responsive Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean, a flagship initiative by WFP and Oxford Policy Management (OPM) in collaboration with many partners and governments in the region.
A Situation Report is a concise operational document with latest updates on the World Food Programme's (WFP) response to an emergency. It gives an overview of WFP’s activities and informs the wider humanitarian community and other interested stakeholders about WFP’s response.
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
The potential environmental and social risks for project activities are identified as:
- Potential exclusion of disadvantaged or vulnerable households;
- Potential exclusion of ethnic minorities due to access challenges or language barriers;
- Risks to project workers (including health/safety/security risks, discrimination, child labour or forced labour, COVID-19 risks, and sexual exploit
The Emergency Dashboard provides a visual overview of the most relevant operational information related to WFP’s response in the emergency, including geographical, funding, and performance related information.
In an effort to combat child labour in Egypt, the European Union (EU) signed a partnership agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP) in July 2014 for a EUR 60 million project entitled “Enhancing Access of Children to Education and Fighting Child Labour”, with a special focus on girls.
Nepal ratified its new constitution in 2015 in a peace process that restructured the country as a federal democratic republic following a decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. This process created a stable government for the first time in 25 years and an enabling environment to make much needed progress toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
The Central African Republic (CAR) ranks second to last in the 2018 Human Development Index, with around 79 percent of the country’s 4.7 million population estimated to be living in poverty. Almost 3 million people residing in CAR require humanitarian assistance.
Despite producing most of the world’s food, smallholder farmers tend to be food insecure themselves: globally, they form the majority of people living in poverty. Helping raise their incomes and improve their livelihoods holds the key to building sustainable food systems, advancing food security and achieving Zero Hunger.