Guatemala is facing serious challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2) on Zero Hunger, which includes the elimination of all forms of malnutrition by 2030.
The event will be attended by:
WFP Assistant Executive Director for Partnerships and Advocacy Ute Klamert
Her Excellency Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany
Her Excellency Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development of Norway
His Excellency Laouan Magagi, Minister of Humanitarian Action and Disaster Management of Niger
Famine has been confirmed in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.
The declaration for Zamzam camp is a result of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints.
Nyiragongo, the volcano that looms over Goma in eastern DRC, erupted in the evening of May 22, killing more than 30 people and destroying a number of villages on the outskirts of the town.
WFP Mozambique recently piloted a nutrition-sensitive campaign designed to be implemented in parallel with cash-based-transfer programmes. It focuses on ability, motivation and opportunity as keystones for improving nutritional status.
Ten years after gaining independence, South Sudan is experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis with 7.2 million people–60 percent of the population–facing acute food insecurity and 1.4 million children under five years of age and half a million pregnant and breastfeeding women expected to suffer from acute malnutrition.
Germany’s contribution will provide food and nutrition assistance to over