Together, three United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs), FAO, IFAD and WFP are working on food, agriculture and transformative rural development to achieve the SDGs and assist people in need
WFP Mozambique recently piloted a nutrition-sensitive campaign designed to be implemented in parallel with cash-based-transfer programmes. It focuses on ability, motivation and opportunity as keystones for improving nutritional status.
Cooperating partners, largely local non-governmental organizations and government partners, are fundamental to WFP’s work, with 31 percent of WFP’s 2023 contributions channelled through them.
The centre, designed by internationally renowned architect Marina Tabassum, uses an innovative bamboo structure and integrates sustainable design elements, including passive cooling, energy efficient design and the use of renewable materials.
Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million people in Ethiopia who are facing a combination of conflict in the north and climate shocks – drought – in the south while dwindling resources mean food and nutrition support may run dry from next month, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
In Haiti, where almost half the population is already food insecure, hunger is set to rise amidst increasing inflation, high costs of food and fuel and deteriorating security, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). As criminal groups block roads, WFP continues to provide assistance to vulnerable Haitians and supports the humanitarian community with vital air and sea transport.
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
Before the deadly earthquakes on its border with Türkiye, in February, Syria was a largely forgotten crisis – now, as the country marks 12 years of conflict, the unprecedented hardships people continue to face there are thrown into sharp relief.
More than half of Syria’s population, or 12.1 million people, are food-insecure with a further 2.9 million on the brink of food ins
Adding to a previous contribution of €8 million in 2020, the total support of the EU to WFP’s food and nutrition assistance programmes in Cox’s Bazar amounts to €11.5 million, making the EU one of WFP’s key partners in the Rohingya response.
All Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar receive food assistance through e-vouchers, which gives them the freedom to shop for their preferred foods at a
Individuals and communities who contribute the least to the climate crisis are bearing the brunt of its impacts, with limited means to cope. Through pre-arranged financing triggered by pre-identified risk parameters, ARC Replica offers timely humanitarian assistance that can limit the impact of a crisis.
