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Overall, the evaluation found that WFP has made important steps towards meeting PSEA commitments. Even with its lean capacity, the Ethics Office has taken the agenda forward corporately, providing valuable guidance and support to focal points globally.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the World Food Programme (WFP), warn that the most vulnerable, especially refugees, are hardest hit by food insecurity, which continues to be driven globally by conflict, displacement, economic shocks, climate crises and the COVID-19 pandemic. “Conflict and climate stresses are destroying lives

The World Food Programme (WFP) is in a “race against time” to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, its executive director David Beasley has warned.   A total 22.8 million people, more than half the population, face acute hunger as temperatures plummet below zero. “What’s happening in Afghanistan is just horrific,” said Beasley, who has just visited.

 At one end of a junkyard – next to the rusty husk of an old bus and the broken remains of a 1958 Chevrolet Daley – Edith Ndebele carefully turns a metal drum heated by firewood, keeping an eye on the peanuts tumbling around inside. The roast she’s perfected flavours the thick, creamy peanut butter her customers love in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, in the southwestern provin

These documents present the support that governments in West African region will need from partners such as the World Food Programme (WFP), other UN agencies, International Financing Institutions (IFIs), donors, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and civil society to implement their national commitments. For each national commitment, the required support activities and t

WFP has stepped up its emergency response to support victims of the devastating earthquake in Syria and Türkiye, providing emergency food assistance to nearly two million quake-affected people in the two countries through hot meals, emergency ready-to-eat food packages and family food rations.

For the fifth consecutive year, erratic weather patterns –prolonged dry spells and excessive rains—have decimated maize and bean crops in the Dry Corridor of Central America.

WFP adopts a needs- and rights-based approach, integrating gender, protection, and disability perspectives into its project design, implementation, and evaluation.

With an estimated 418 million children currently benefiting globally, school meals are one of the most widespread social safety nets in the world. In 2021, the World Food Programme, in partnership with the World Bank, launched the School-based Programmes Impact Evaluation Window to generate a portfolio of impact evaluation evidence to inform policy decisions and programmes.Since then, five ex

Safa lost her husband and her home. She and her five children now sleep under a railway bridge. Muna Qarmou can’t even afford a jar of marmalade for her family.