The contribution from Japan will enable WFP provide school feeding and nutrition support to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and host communities.
The campaign lays out the gravity of the effect of the climate crisis on future food security, and highlights climate adaptation solutions WFP is implementing across the region.
“Climate change is a reality we live every day, it is not as simple as temperatures rising, it is a lot more serious.
Since November 2017, WFP and the Food Security Sector have been conducting the Refugee influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment (REVA) annually. The REVA aims to monitor food security situation and vulnerability levels of the Rohingya population living in the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar district and the adjacent host community potentially affected.
Aumsat, Fonio, Blue Marble, Etherisc, Emerging Cooking Solutions project, MegaGas, and Africa GreenTec are the seven start-ups that showcased their innovations, to potential funders, local and international partners.
WFP has also been able to preposition food in strategic locations across the northeast and central highlands of the country where heavy winter snows can cut off communities from assistance.
In 2021, the triple threat of conflict, climate change and socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19 pandemic drove human suffering to a staggering scale. Eastern Africa felt the brunt of such a convergence, leading to an unprecedented number of people in need.
"Without UN cross-border operations, millions of people, especially those displaced for years and multiple times, will not have access to food and shelter; to help in coping with harsh winter conditions; to the surveillance, treatment and testing capacities needed to contain cholera; to safe water; and to protection from gender-based violence.
"Any failure by the Council to extend the resolutio