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.
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.
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 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.
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.
"I'm a beneficiary who survived a war. It makes me more resilient in my job." He looks me directly in the eye.
In Baghdad, Nenad lived opposite, the neighbour with whom I shared home-baked bread (me) and fresh lemonade (he makes the best).
The villagers of Orefonde
I am WFP's Country Director in Senegal. I am travelling with members of my team in Matam, a vast region in the north-east of Senegal to see for myself the effect that drought in the Sahel is having on the local population.