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.
What are you doing to mitigate the effects of the monsoon season on the Rohingya refugees?
As the rains have already started, we are working around the clock to improve the safety and accessibility of the camps.
In March this year, the Government of Bangladesh allocated 800 acres of land to safely relocate an estimated 30,000 refugees.
Perched on a hilltop, Jeradou is a small farming village in Tunisia overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Fatma, 10, attends the Jeradou elementary school — the same school her parents and their parents went to. This is one of the 2,500 schools that are part of the national school meals programme.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Lebanon Country Office and covers WFP’s Livelihoods and Resilience Activities in Lebanon from 2016 to 2019.
The evaluation was commissioned to achieve learning and accountability objectives and to produce evidence and lessons learned from the design and implementation of the Programme in the period between August 2016 and April 2019.
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.
Climate change is a long-term threat to food security and nutrition. By 2050, the risk of hunger and malnutrition could rise by 20 percent if the global community fails to act now to mitigate and prevent the adverse effects of climate change. The majority of child deaths expected to occur as a result of climate change will be driven by undernutrition.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound social and economic impacts on Cambodia’s vulnerable population. For part of them, these negative effects have been compounded by climatic shocks such as the devastating floods of late 2020.
“COVID-19 and severe flooding have only added to the challenges faced by these already vulnerable people.
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.