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Indonesian children face a triple burden of malnutrition, where the occurrence of undernutrition and overnutrition coexist with micronutrient deficiencies.

In 2020, WFP and UNAIDS piloted a joint initiative to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on marginalized populations often left behind by providing cash transfers to vulnerable people living with HIV, key populations and their households in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger.

Years of conflict, displacement, and environmental shocks have led to chronic hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and the loss of many lives in the world’s youngest country.

Names in this story have been changed to protect the identities of individuals. One day, Anyuarach went to the pharmacy to buy for her father medicine. There, two men raped her. “I did not plan to tell anyone. But then I missed my periods and I had to explain to my father what happened,” she says. This was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.

Since the conflict broke out last year, hunger and acute malnutrition have soared.

WFP has scaled up its emergency food assistance in Syria and Türkiye since the beginning of the crisis, reaching over 300,000 quake-affected people in both countries and plans to reach a total of close to 900,000 people. 

Not all superheroes wear a mask and a cloak. Many simply don a World Food Programme (WFP) vest and set out each day to reach those people most in need of our support. This humble commitment from our staff helped WFP reach 115.5 million people across 84 countries in 2020.

DRC’s conflict-driven hunger crisis is worsening as violence in the eastern province’s surges, forcing families to flee once again. More and more people are arriving at overcrowded camps where there is a lack of food, sanitation and shelter.

WFP is concerned about the safety of tens of thousands of people who have become displaced due to the violence in northeast Syria. Since 9 October, large numbers of people have fled the towns of Ras al-Ayn in Hasakeh and Tell Abyad in Raqqa, though some have since returned to their places of origin.

This annual report outlines progress made towards implementing WFP’s Impact Evaluation Strategy in 2022. The first two years of the strategy (2019-2021) were a pilot phase, during which period the Office of Evaluation (OEV) assessed the demand for impact evaluation evidence in WFP and explored different models of delivering them in rapidly evolving contexts. Following an independent review o