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Six international football stars – including the first Syrian refugee to play in the German Bundesliga – are joining forces with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to raise funds for people fleeing conflict in Ukraine.  UNHCR and WFP’s global #football4ukraine appeal comes at a time when almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population – more than 10 million peopl

The evaluations were commissioned to generate findings on implementing gender-transformative school feeding programmes in emergency contexts and to generate lessons on implementing school feeding with complementary activities in collaboration with partners.

Already, WFP has reached more than 400,000 people with food assistance in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces and continues to expand its operations in support of the Government-led response across the country.

Bringing heavy rains, violent winds and storm surges, Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on the central-eastern coast of Madagascar on Saturday. Storms during the agricultural season (that runs from October-April) have the potential to wipe out harvest, send food prices soaring and increase food insecurity.

6 October, 08:30 - ‘We can’t start without coffee’  We’ve already driven one hour from Coro, the capital of Falcón state where, in July, after 46 years, the World Food Programme (WFP) marked its return to Venezuela with a new school meals programme.

It is aimed at providing lessons and insights to help guide WFP’s positioning in relation to HIV and nutrition so as to improve operations at the country level and accountability to affected populations. The evaluation concluded that: The adequacy and performance of the HIV/AIDS and nutrition policies have followed two very different pathways, with nutrition now playing a central role in

Over the past year, WFP’s engineers and partners have been conducting disaster risk reduction activities for cyclone and monsoon preparedness and have steadily improved camp conditions and humanitarian access. Activities focus on improving and establishing roads, strengthening and clearing drains, reinforcing bridges in the camps, and reforestation.

WFP has been growing its engagement and support to government to strengthening social protection systems across the region, particularly in response to food and nutrition insecurity aggravated by covariate shocks. This newsletter provides a snapshot of WFP’s social protection work throughout 2022 in Western Africa.

The world in which the World Food Programme (WFP) operates today is characterized by a rise in hunger happening faster than at any previous time in the 21st century.