Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
This document seeks to explain how, as a result of complementary initiatives between the Red Cross Red Crescent and WFP and efforts to reduce duplication, more people benefit from anticipatory actions.
WFP has worked together with FAO to strengthen the resilience of communities in fragile states by reviving agricultural production and commodity markets that have been damaged by years of armed conflict in DRC.
The dates, rich in nutrients, will be used to complement meals provided to some 15,000 school going children in over 25 schools in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan.
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update, between now and the end of the year some 4.5 million people in South Sudan cannot put food on their tables.
“I am honoured to be named National Goodwill Ambassador for WFP - the United Nations agency that fights hunger worldwide, including my own country Bangladesh,” says Tamim Iqbal.
“While Bangladesh has made impressive economic growth in the recent years, poverty is still rampant, especially in rural parts of the country.
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.
The new campaign aims to build on last year’s results that helped to double awareness of WFP among those who saw the ad and raised more than half a million dollars through online giving and through a 38% increase in downloads of the agency’s Share the Meal donation App.
“We have every reason to believe that this year, the Feed our Future campaign is going to take us even further
Through its General Food Assistance (GFA) activity WFP provides monthly unconditional cash assistance to Syrian refugees in host communities and camps throughout the Kingdom, with the objective to meet basic food needs of the most vulnerable.
The cross-sectional Food Security Outcome Monitoring (FSOM) is conducted quarterly to measure food security trends and inform and assess, effects of program
It’s 10:00 when Brian Langdon, deputy Logistics Cluster coordinator in charge of the COVID-19 response plan in South Sudan, gets his first call of the day. A newly arrived World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian kicking off two weeks quarantine in Juba is checking in.