In Niger, over 3.3 million women, men, and children (13 per cent of the total population) are severely food insecure. Maternal mortality rates are high, with 1 in 226 pregnant women dying from pregnancy-related causes.
A healthy workforce enables WFP to reach the world’s most food insecure people. Ensuring staff wellness is therefore a responsibility the Organization has not only towards its employees, but also towards the donors who entrust it with their money and the beneficiaries who rely on its capacity to deliver.
This report commemorates the achievements of the World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners in the English- and -Dutch-speaking Caribbean over the past five years.
Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint music from a nearby house – the tail end of a wedding party – and the darkness by a single light.
Mec Sinat is already at work beneath her house which sits on stilts.
This landmark collaboration brings together the expertise and resources of two leading institutions to address the complex food security, nutrition and resilience challenges faced by millions of people, and will inform and guide the work of the WFP.
“By joining forces with J-PAL and MIT, we are harnessing the power of innovation and knowledge to tackle the pressing challenges of resilience syst