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The strategy outlines current and new approaches to Cooperating Partnerships (CP) management in WFP Regional Bureau Nairobi (RBN) and country offices in Eastern Africa region, in a consistent and systematic way.

 The floods tore through Halima Mustapha’s home in northeastern Nigeria late at night, giving the 27-year-old mother and her family no warning. They fled minutes before the building collapsed, unable to take even the most basic necessities.“We have not experienced this kind of flooding before,” says Mustapha, a widow and mother of two.

“Following the US$ 1 million emergency food assistance in March of this year, we are pleased to announce our decision to provide US$ 4.4 million in life-saving food assistance to the Rohingya through WFP,” said H.E. Mr. Kiminori Iwama , Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh. “We hope that this grant will help alleviate the severe food crisis in the camps.

WFP first partnered with dsm-firmenich (then Royal DSM) in 2007. Since then, the partnership has helped improve the diets and lives of tens of millions by contributing to the development of innovative nutrition and fortification solutions used across the world.  

In the past year, the World Food Programme (WFP) has suffered the worst funding shortfalls in its 60-year history: we raised just US$7.5 billion of our projected costs of US$23.5 billion. This has resulted in colossal reductions in the number of people we serve.

WFP is temporarily expanding its cash assistance to the most vulnerable people this winter to help them cover their basic needs, such as food and energy costs.

Zenebech Kahsay is relieved to watch her children play once again, their energy renewed at last by bread she’s baked after receiving a 15kg bag of wheat from the World Food Programme (WFP) at a food distribution in Tahtay Adyabo, in Ethiopia’s northern province of Tigray. “My children were dizzy with hunger,” explains Kahsay as she grinds dark brown grains of wheat with a pestle and mortar.

With this contribution, WFP will connect 4,000 members of smallholder farmer organizations and community-based food processing units to 50 public primary school canteens in the Savanes and Kara regions, creating a sustainable market for locally produced and processed foods.

WFP's nutrition programming during these first 1,000 days, such as the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP) in Pakistan, targets pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under two to combat stunting and malnutrition. Initiatives include providing specialized nutritious foods (SNF) and cash transfers to improve diet quality.