In January 2016, WFP Nigeria started remote phone-based data collection and food security monitoring using the mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) approach to conduct household surveys and key informant/trader surveys.
In Lao PDR, 44 percent of children under 5 years of age are stunted as a result of a poor diet, often lacking in essential micronutrients, fats and proteins as well as experiencing recurrent illness.
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) is a strategic partnership between Oxfam America (OA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). R4 was initiated in 2011 to respond to the challenges faced by food-insecure communities enduring increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters and other shocks.
Canada’s contribution comes at a crucial time when WFP is working to provide 4.1 million people in Zimbabwe with emergency food assistance amid the country’s ongoing hunger crisis.
On International Women's Day (Thursday 8 March), some of the women who made the dangerous journey to Bangladesh, after escaping violence in Myanmar, tell their stories of violence and terror.
Please help WFP save lives in Mozambique.Last updated on 20 March 2019"Massive and horrifying" is the Red Cross's initial assessment of Cyclone Idai's impact on Beira. Reports of residents stranded up trees and medical facilities strewn with bodies, while hundreds of people remain unaccounted for, suggest the current count of some 200 deaths may need to be sharply revised.
The contribution will provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to more than 700,000 vulnerable people, including people who had to flee their homes, malnourished pregnant and nursing women, children under the age of five and refugees living in South Sudan.