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Although it is difficult for women in rural areas in Armenia to start and run their own businesses, a 62-year-old woman in a small village sets an example for many women looking for new horizons, thanks to World Food Programme support in renovating her bakery. Greta Barseghyan, an owner of a bakery in Tavush region of Armenia, established her business around 15 years ago in a small village

“People forced from their homes, having lost their livestock and their livelihoods, desperately in need of the support that the World Food Programme is providing to keep them alive” – this is how Michael Dunford, Regional Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in East Africa, described the challenges in Somalia when he visited the country recently. This very description can be appl

With the markets inside Gaza now all but collapsed, many are now going days without eating, meaning WFP and partners on the ground are seeing an increasing risk of starvation.

WFP BRIDGE aims to catalyse additional funding for businesses working towards ending hunger in challenging environments and who often struggle to access commercial financing mechanisms.

Maria Suleiman always wanted to be a humanitarian. Apart from her young family in Somali Region, Ethiopia, her greatest happiness lies in making a difference to people's lives.

A United Nations food security assessment in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has found that following the worst harvest in 10 years, due to dry spells, heatwaves and flooding, about 10.1 million people suffer from severe food shortages, meaning they do not have enough food until the next harvest.

For his entire working life, Augustin has earned a living tilling the fertile land of Haiti’s central Artibonite department, the country’s breadbasket.  But when harvest time arrived last May, the 42-year-old rice farmer found bandits stealing his crop, their guns at the ready. READ MORE: IPC data confirms record levels of hunger in Haiti “I ran for my life,” recalls Augustin, wh

The WFP’s Global Field Pilot Initiative on SSTC in Peru focused on two main challenges, namely the need to support smallholder farmers to sell their products into public social protection programmes as well as in ensuring that they obtain a national certificate that identify them as family farmers producers.   See the full report of the MARA-WFP Global SSTC Initiative Overview 2022 here

WFP launched its remote monitoring system (mVAM) in Bangladesh in July 2022 to provide near real-time analytics on food security and essential needs analysis across the country. It allows WFP and partners to assess the food security impact of shocks, including the current global food crisis and seasonal flooding, including the 2022 severe floods in northeastern Bangladesh.

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.