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At 206 kg per person per year, the country’s per capita rice consumption is among the highest in the world (United States Department of Agriculture 2020) and rice is therefore an appropriate vehicle for food fortification to reduce the incidence of MNDs. WFP is currently conducting acceptability studies for fortified rice in government social protection programmes.

The Province of Isabela, situated in the flood-prone Cagayan Valley region of Luzon Island, frequently suffers from severe flooding and landslides that impact farmers’ livelihoods and disrupt children’s education.  The newly launched programme aims to reach 2,000 schoolchildren with daily, nutritious meals supplied by 500 smallholder farmers during the 2024-2025 school year.&nb

Most families crossing the border are arriving hungry, desperate and in need of immediate support. WFP continues to supply all arriving families with fortified biscuits and cash to buy food or other basic necessities.

When world leaders meet in Dubai for COP28 – the UN Climate Change conference held from 30 November until 12 December – loss and damage connected to climate change will be high on the agenda.  2023 is expected to be the hottest on record, experts believe, bringing with it disastrous consequences.  Tackling the climate crisis starts by averting the problem in the first place, ch

The World Food Programme has been providing assistance to Syrian refugees in Lebanon since 2012 — first with food parcels, then paper vouchers, and since 2013 with cash-based assistance through electronic cards. WFP has also been supporting refugees of other nationalities since 2019 and supported Palestinian refugees from Syria between 2014 and 2021.

WFP depends on river transport to reach rural and remote communities during the rainy season, when roads become inaccessible. However, due to a deterioration in the security situation along the White Nile, WFP has had to suspend its barge movement between Adok and Malakal as the waterways have become inaccessible, to the detriment of communities in the firing line.

The document also sets out the environmental and social (E&S) instruments that shall be adopted and implemented, all of which shall be subject to prior consultation and disclosure. Once adopted, E&S instruments may be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to Project per

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 and safety risks, security risks, child labor or forced labor, COVID-19 risks, and sexual exploitation and ab

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.

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.