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Pendeza Mpariye and her husband once made a small living growing cassava, bananas and beans on a small plot of land in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

This innovative digital solution replaces the outdated paper system, bringing the power of digital technology to optimize the PDS and enhance user experience.

Nadifa Ibrahim proudly shows off the latest addition to her small mud home: a squat gas cylinder and burner, upon which she is brewing a pot of strong local tea.  “It’s efficient, it’s useful – and we avoid getting beaten when we go looking for firewood,” says Nadifa, from Sudan’s Darfur region who now lives in a refugee camp in eastern Chad.  “The difference is huge,” she adds

Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school. “We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.

Food distributions are under way in Gaza and the West Bank in response to soaring needs after a sharp escalation in conflict – which has seen almost 264,000 people displaced in Gaza to date.

The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organisation.

In the last academic year, WFP and the Ministry of Education and Science signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation on the implementation of the school feeding programme. During this first phase of the programme, WFP supported the preparation of meals for 12,000 children in 58 schools in Kyiv oblast.

Chad’s education system has been affected by numerous structural factors and multiple humanitarian crises over several years, which magnify the challenges in providing equitable and inclusive access to quality education for all school-aged children. There has been a noted decrease in the enrolment and retention of girls in primary school and this phenomenon is even more pronounced in th

In 2023, WFP’s Regional Bureau in Dakar undertook a learning exercise to collate detailed and current information on how WFP country offices in Western Africa design and implement complementary, context specific, and agile HDP Nexus approaches. The goal is to inform and build WFP’s evidence and advocacy with the latest practices from the field.

Food insecurity has reached a 10-year high in West and Central Africa with over 47 million women, men and children unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs between June and September 2023. In conflict-affected areas of Burkina Faso and Mali over 45,000 faced catastrophic hunger - one step away from famine - during the June-August lean season.