With climate variability and change being key drivers of hunger, the World Food Programme is building the capacities of communities and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to adapt to the growing challenges of climate change. In the following document, discover how we work with communities, our experience and success stories.
The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organization.
As Corona-Virus cases soar, Latin America has become the region most impacted by COVID-19 globally, accounting for over a quarter of the world’s cases. The health pandemic is driving hunger and food insecurity which risks fuelling conflict and political unrest and forcing vulnerable families to migrate.
In the early 1990s, Seng missed classes and struggled to keep up with other children at her school in Cambodia’s central Kampong Thom Province.
At break times she sold rice noodles, sugarcane juice and ice cream made by her family.
This took its toll on her performance as a student.
A sad consequence of the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting Zimbabwe is the growing prevalence of urban hunger over the past year. According to Government estimates, around half of all residents of urban areas — around 2.2 million people — go to bed hungry every night. Across the globe, the World Food Programme (WFP) is investing ever more in empowering people in urban ar
In the wake of elusive peace prospects, diminishing humanitarian funding and eroding availability of natural resources, WFP Office in Palestine embarked on an innovative pilot experimenting with climate resilient agricultural activities as a mean to simultaneously improve immediate food security and nutritional needs of the poorest Palestinian households while empowering their self-reliance in the
Hunger continues to persist in South Sudan and is widely expected to worsen in the coming months if assistance is not scaled up. This is mainly due to the longer-term effects of the conflict which has also forced tens of thousands of families to remain in temporary shelters and millions of people to seek refuge outside the country.
The analysis of essential needs, how people meet them and where there are gaps or constraints to meeting them enriches insight into food insecurity, its drivers and how it is connected with meeting other needs.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an emergency operation to provide critical food assistance to over 800,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank who are facing dire circumstances, lacking access to food, water, and essential supplies.
