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The Danish contribution will substantially reinforce WFP’s life-saving assistance to some 360,000 internally displaced people and other vulnerable families affected by conflict in various states/regions in Myanmar including Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states. “Denmark is pleased to support the important work of WFP in providing essential humanitarian assistance to the people of Myanmar who

The agreement was signed in Nairobi by H.E. Maarten Brouwer, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Kenya, Lauren Landis, WFP’s Country Director and Representative in Kenya, Alexandros Makarigakis, Director and Representative a.i. UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, H.E. Mohamud M. Ali, Governor of Marsabit County and H.E. Jeremiah E.

WFP has received the awards through a competitive process operated by USDA’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (McGovern-Dole), which has a long history of supporting WFP’s efforts to promote food security and improve education.In each of the four countries, the award will fund a five-year initiative aimed at improving education, nutrition, and health for c

Published by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network against Food Crises (GNAFC), the GRFC 2024 is the reference document for global, regional and country-level acute food insecurity in 2023.

The workshop focused on bolstering Iraq's climate information system with the aim of having unified and consolidated data across the entire country and strengthening early warning mechanisms.

It's not even noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, and the thermometer is already hovering near 40 degrees Celsius. The unpaved road to the village is bumpy and sandy.

The contribution, which has been provided through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), comes at a critical time, with some 3.15 million people facing high levels of food insecurity in the country, according to the latest Integrated Phase Classification (IPC).

Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the agreement was signed in Islamabad between Rathi Palakrishnan, WFP Country Director a.i in Pakistan and Rehmat Dashti, Project Director, P&D Department of the Government of Balochistan. “I am confident that the partnership between the Government of Balochistan and WFP will help us achieve our joint nutrition targets.

While the food assistance has been designed to meet the minimum recommended 2,100 kilocalories, chronic funding shortfalls have forced WFP to provide reduced rations since 2020. Earlier this year (March), further reductions were made, dropping the ration from meeting 80 percent of the food needs to 65 percent.

This comes after the food agency had exhausted all options, including this month reducing the value of its cash assistance by one-third for all refugees living outside camps. "WFP is extremely concerned that scaling back assistance will bring considerable hardship to vulnerable refugee families and worsen their food security status which is already on the edge,” said WFP Representative and Coun