Through the 2019 PSEA updates, WFP’s Ethics Office, the organization’s focal point for PSEA, shares highlights on initiatives and achievements within WFP and at the inter-agency level.
The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country in Central Asia, with an economy heavily reliant on labour migration and remittances, which in turn impact the poverty and food security situation in the country through several channels.
In January 2020, the World Food Programme (WFP) launched its new strategy in support of school health and nutrition for the school children of the world. One month later COVID-19 emerged and within weeks became a pandemic that led to 1.6 billion school children being excluded from schools globally by March 2020.
WFP has been overcoming incredible challenges resultant from the pandemic and the associated lockdown to support the Government in assisting the most vulnerable and food- insecure people. This factsheet outlines WFP’s key achievements in Zambia in 2020.
This decentralized evaluation is the Mid-Term evaluation (MTE) of the Fiscal Year 20 (FY20) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program 2020-2024. It was carried out in 2023.
“This vital funding comes at a time when essential humanitarian air services are needed more than ever – due to air traffic limitations caused by COVID-19.
In order to understand if the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted food availability and access at markets in Cambodia, WFP monitors the retail and wholesale prices of key food commodities in 45 urban and rural markets across the country. This update is based on market data collected in the first and third weeks of November 2020.
2.2 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have lost their crops due to rainfall and drought; 1.4 million urgently need food assistance.
FAO and WFP are requesting US$72 million from the international community to provide food assistance to more than 700,000 people in the Dry Corridor.
Central American governments estimated that 2.2 million people have s