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A group of Kenyan women sits in a circle one recent afternoon, a metal box in the middle. It looks like a toolbox except for three telltale locks. Pocket-sized record books lie strewn on the floor. Money changes hands – many times.

The rice import dependency in Timor-Leste means that changes in international rice prices directly affect domestic prices. This short bulletin outlines the factors impacting rice price increases, provides a snapshot of the main Asian rice markets, and sets out key recommendations for action to mitigate the rice price increase factors on the people of Timor-Leste.

This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Ethiopia Country Office and covers the five-year school feeding programme in Afar and Oromia regions in Ethiopia (2019-2024), funded by McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The decentralized baseline evaluation was carried out from 2020 to 2

Market-based disaster risk financing solutions, such as macro insurance policies purchased by governments to cover disaster losses, can enable faster, more cost-effective and predictable responses to climate and disaster shocks.

Ensuring accountability and transparency

Tapping into knowledge, expertise and the latest research

The number of refugees in Uganda has almost tripled in the past ten years from over 600,000 in 2014 to 1.7 million in 2024.

Since hostilities erupted last month in the city of Laascaanood, in the Sool region, Somalia, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced within Somalia and close to 100,000 are estimated to have crossed the border into Ethiopia to escape violence.  Most of the new arrivals in Ethiopia are women, children, older people and people with specific needs, who arrive with nothing, scared

“The Government of Japan, together with WFP, continues to support the socio-economic development of our country, including the sectors overseen by the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic,” said Gulnara Baatyrova, the Minister of Labour, Social Security and Migration of the Kyrgyz Republic.