This joint publication by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Action Against Hunger presents the impacts of El Niño in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2023 and 2024.
The United Nations World Food Programme today warned of an escalating humanitarian crisis driven by widespread violence and the long-term impact of climate change that has gripped Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries in the Central Sahel region of West Africa.
Overarching evaluation questions focused on: (i) Have literacy rates of school-age children improved over the duration of the programme? (ii) Has the use of health and dietary practices increased? (iii) What is the level of community involvement and participation in decision-making in school governance mechanisms?
The three-day high-level meeting, organized in close collaboration with the government of Brazil, aims to create a conducive space for countries from across the region to boost multi-sector approaches linking education, food security and nutrition for human capital development, using two complementary approaches: school feeding and social protection systems.
The ‘Power of Multi-Sector A
“We have dashboards in place with a number of different datasets,” says Lifelile Moakhi – an economist with the office of the Prime Minister of Lesotho – brimming with energy in her office in capital Maseru.
On Wednesday (31 May), the Government of the landlocked kingdom of around 2 million people in southern Africa launched a GIS (geospatial information systems) platform, facilitated by th
The devastating floods occurred as a dam near Maiduguri collapsed due to torrential rains, forcing the river water to overrun 50 percent of Maiduguri, the capital city of the Borno State.
“Some cows refused to cross the water,” says cattle farmer Eric Mutabazi, recalling the days when it took hours to find a safe place to cross the Lwizi river, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern Tanganyika province.
Its treacherous waters meant “the safety of my livestock and my income were at stake,” he says.
But what could Mutabazi do?
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The “Rajasthan Food and Nutrition Security Analysis Report, 2023” provides a mechanism to monitor the performance of Rajasthan on various targets and indicators of SDG. This report analyses Food and Nutrition Security through framework of its four pillars- Food Availability, Food Accessibility, Food Utilization and Food Stability.
BUJUMBURA - More than 56,000 Congolese refugees will soon receive only half the food rations they need, due to a dwindling of funding for food needs in five camps in Burundi.