"With our Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme, Cambodia aims to provide food while improving nutrition and education, strengthening rural development and increasing food security," says Claire Conan, WFP Country Director in Cambodia. “KOICA's support has been transformative, constructing essential school infrastructure and enhancing the capacities of programme implementors.
There have been recent positive engagements with the Government of Ethiopia by senior UN officials, including the Under-Secretary General for Safety and Security, the High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme.
These engagements have acknowledged the commendable measures being undertaken by the Government and partners to address humanitarian needs in
Liberia has made significant development strides over the last decade, trying to reduce poverty and expand basic service delivery to its population, and transitioning from one democratically elected Government to another.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soar after back-to-back droughts and the threat of famine looms. Since the start of the year, nine million more people have slipped into severe food insecurity across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat
The first maritime shipment of Ukrainian wheat grain for humanitarian operations run by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) left Ukraine’s Yuzhny (Pivdennyi) Port today, another important milestone in efforts to get much needed Ukrainian grain out of the conflict-hit country, back into global markets, and to countries worst affected by the global food crisis
FFA aims to address the most food-insecure people’s immediate food needs with cash, vouchers or food transfers while improving their long-term food security and resilience. In 2021, over 7.5 million people (3.6 million male and over 3.9 million female) benefited from FFA activities in 49 countries.
Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) aims to address the most food-insecure people’s immediate food needs with cash, vouchers or food transfers while improving their long-term food security and resilience. In 2019, over 9.6 million people benefited from FFA activities in over 50 countries.
“This is a race against time – I am worried we might not be able to keep up,” says Shelley Thakral, the World Food Programme’s communications chief in Afghanistan, on a video call from Herat.
“We do not have enough funds and we are asking for US$2.6 billion to scale up as we must in 2022 – that’s about 30 cents of a US dollar per person we need to reach per day.
At a time when conflict, insecurity, climate extremes and economic shocks are pushing more and more people into extreme levels of food insecurity, funding from the EU helped WFP run its cash assistance programmes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic over a period of nine months.
The contribution, made through the EU’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (DG ECHO), also he