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Their faces smeared with a traditional mussiro mask to enhance their skin, the women stoop to pluck shellfish from the mudflats of Ibo Island, off northern Mozambique.

Nutrition is fundamental for sustainable development: it is the fuel that empowers children to learn, adults to work, and communities to thrive. In humanitarian emergencies, nutrition is the difference between life and death.

This report presents the efforts, good practices and learnings identified from WFP’s policy engagement and provision of technical assistance for National Nutrition Programme for School Children in Indonesia, Program Gizi Anak Sekolah (Progas). The programme, which was operational between 2016 and 2019, funded through the Ministry of Education and Culture’s (MoEC’s) national budget.

The contribution, provided through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), comes at a critical time in Zimbabwe.

The initiative is a partnership of the Issyk Kul Regional Development Foundation, Good Neighbors International in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the United Nations World Food Programme’s Optimising the National School Meals programme for the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Partners supported the construction of the greenhouse to ensure that the children can enjoy organic

Executive Director McCain is in DRC where she visited a farm in N’sele, near Kinshasa.

Earlier this month, an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report already warned that by November more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population will face severe food insecurity. It forecast that a large group would be in an “emergency phase” of need, while others would face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.

Kenya is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Severe droughts are often followed by heavy rain and flooding – forcing thousands of people from their homes, destroying livelihoods and degrading land.

The evaluation assessed the quality and results of both policies, along with the factors that enabled and hindered those results.

This landmark collaboration brings together the expertise and resources of two leading institutions to address the complex food security, nutrition and resilience challenges faced by millions of people, and will inform and guide the work of the WFP. “By joining forces with J-PAL and MIT, we are harnessing the power of innovation and knowledge to tackle the pressing challenges of resilience syst