The village of Grande Rivière du Nord owes its name to the stream that gently splits it into two shores. But in the last two years, not much water has fallen from the sky, and most harvests were lost.
Small, densely populated and lying at the heart of a region beset by conflict and political instability, Lebanon is experiencing a profound socioeconomic crisis on top of the protracted Syrian refugee crisis.
According to The Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), moderate El-Nino have led to an extended drought and a delayed rainy season. These conditions affected some paddy cultivated areas and caused crop failure.
Story written by Myriame François and Antoine Vallas, based on testimonies from Jacques Elie and Jean Carrel Norceide.
At 4.53 p.m. on 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Caribbean island of Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing over a million (estimates range from 220,000 to 300,000 deaths).
At the current level of funding for the calendar year, WFP lacks the resources to provide food assistance to a total of 750,000 people who are in urgent need.
The joint call was made today by the UN, NGOs, regional and national authorities, humanitarian and development partners during a briefing on the emergency in Southern Africa, held in Pretoria, South Africa, to highlight the severe impacts of El Niño and the climate-driven crisis.
Annual Country Reports (ACR) are a key accountability document produced by country offices on a yearly basis which inform donors how their funds were used during the reporting year. Their purpose is to tell WFP’s performance story in an accurate, transparent and evidence-based manner by assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of our operations in our pursuit towards zero hunger.
One in three Haitians, or 3.7 million people, need urgent food assistance, including 1 million suffering severe hunger according to a nationwide study conducted in August by the CNSA (National Coordination for Food Security) with support from WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
“Poor Haitian families face a very dramatic situation.
This new funding will enable WFP to expand cash assistance in the Nord-Ouest department, where food insecurity has reached one of the highest levels in the country.
The evaluation assessed the following activities: school feeding, micronutrient supplementation as well as capacity development.
The evaluation, which makes a number of recommendations for the future, was managed and conducted by a consultancy firm, with fieldwork taking place in October 2014.