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The JPO Programme provides valuable work experience and training opportunities for young and motivated professionals who are interested in pursuing a career in international development.

These are unprecedented times for the World Food Programme (WFP) as it strives to avert famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, while helping millions facing hunger in Syria, Iraq, the Central African Republic and beyond. Almost all these emergencies are driven by conflict, which both causes and feeds on hunger like a deadly witch's brew. In a crowded media landscape, these crises

With more than 6 million people uprooted from their homes and livelihoods, and 4.6 million cases of children requiring treatment for malnourishment country wide, this donation comes at a critical time.

Early morning sunlight sparkles on the 136 solar panels marching across the roof of Kananga’s newest building, as horns honk in the traffic below where a man pushes a wheelbarrow down the dusty street below.  The World Food Programme (WFP) humanitarian guesthouse, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a feat of green engineering that may serve as a blueprint for similar initiatives e

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 Democratic Republic of the Congo is, alongside Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria, among the World Food Programme’s biggest emergencies – reeling from decades of conflict and climate change that continue to reduce people’s access to the most basic foods, increasing hunger to unprecedented levels. As WFP grapples with a global funding crisis and growing humanitarian needs, the horrific stories