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“This incredibly timely contribution will help us provide much-needed support for both Ukrainian refugees and Moldovan host communities,“ said WFP Representative in Moldova Katrien Ghoos.

The document provides a roadmap for how WFP will support countries in Asia and the Pacific to achieve their social protection goals. The plan focuses on strengthening social protection to ensure food security, nutrition and basic needs while managing risks and shocks, and builds on decades of experience to consolidate WFP's approach for the coming years.

In Haiti where gang violence compounded by rising global food and fuel prices, have led to protests that have brought the country to a standstill, completely paralyzing economic activities and transport.

As political upheaval shakes Niger, sustaining short and long-term responses to the worsening hunger crisis in the country is critical. WFP’s emergency assistance needs to reach people at the moment they need it and at the appropriate scale.

This annual report outlines progress made towards implementing WFP’s Impact Evaluation Strategy in 2022. The first two years of the strategy (2019-2021) were a pilot phase, during which period the Office of Evaluation (OEV) assessed the demand for impact evaluation evidence in WFP and explored different models of delivering them in rapidly evolving contexts. Following an independent review o

During her visit, Princess Sarah engaged with the Prime Minister, the First Lady of Cameroon, Government Ministers, UN agencies, Non-Government Organisations, rural women and girls’ associations, women leaders, and actors from the private sector.

ROME – Inclusive access to digital technologies and education is crucial to reducing gender inequalities and empowering rural women and girls – that was the message from three United Nations’ food and agriculture agencies as they marked International Women’s Day 2023. Participants at the event, co-organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Internati

 Alvin Douglas was left homeless when category-4 Hurricane Beryl struck the Caribbean at the start of July. “A lot of people were caught off-guard because we underestimated the (warning) bulletin, we didn’t really take it seriously,” says Douglas, a resident of Union Island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

WFP aims to reach 2.1 million people with emergency food assistance from August onwards and needs at least 6,000 metric tons of food each week to do so. Due to insecurity and operational constraints, it has been unable to bring these quantities into Tigray in recent weeks.   More than 175 trucks arrived in the Tigray region, via the Abala corridor, during the first week of August.

Not all superheroes wear a mask and a cloak. Many simply don a World Food Programme (WFP) vest and set out each day to reach those people most in need of our support. This humble commitment from our staff helped WFP reach 115.5 million people across 84 countries in 2020.