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It's 07:00 and the city of Gonaïves is already bustling with activity. In the streets, dozens of motorcycles weave between the tap-taps – traditional, decorated vans used as mini-buses in Haiti.

The so-called “Kaizen” management approach supports an environment of continuous learning, integration, and innovation in a culture of continuous improvement, based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can reap significant positive developments.

The potential environmental and social risks for project activities are identified as: - Potential exclusion of disadvantaged or vulnerable households; - Potential exclusion of ethnic minorities due to access challenges or language barriers; - Risks to project workers (including health/safety/security risks, discrimination, child labour or forced labour, COVID-19 risks, and sexual exploit

On July 26, 2023, a coup d’état took place in Niger. As a result, on July 30, commercial and financial sanctions were issued by ECOWAS and WAEMU. Immediately following the coup, most development partners paused or suspended their development assistance. This report provides a preliminary analysis of the socio-economic impacts of those events.

After facing successive crises and devastating natural hazards over the last years, many people in the Caribbean are struggling to earn a living and meet their food and other critical needs.

The evaluation was carried out in 2023 and aligned with the WFP's Country Strategic Plan (CSP) across  key strategic outcomes (SO) 2 and 3.

Established in 2001 under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Adaptation Fund finances adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. “The climate crisis is a major driver of hunger,” says Saliha Dobardzic, Lead for Programming and Innovation at the Adaptation Fund.

A record number of people – 6.9 million, or more than 60 percent of South Sudan’s entire population – do not know where their next meal will come from.

The new agreement, valued at US$33 million, comes under the U.S.

 Nearly two weeks after Cyclone Mocha left a trail of hunger and desolation across coastal areas of Myanmar and Bangladesh, a grim certainty looms.