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European Union supports WFP’s cash assistance to people affected by drought and COVID-19 in Lesotho

MASERU – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the European Union’s (EU) contribution of €2.8 million (M55.5 million) to provide much needed relief assistance to the most vulnerable people in Lesotho affected by three consecutive years of drought and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate Health emergencies European Union (Member Organization) Lesotho

WFP supports 75,000 food insecure people in Ghana to recover from socio -economic effects of coronavirus

ACCRA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extending its support to the national social protection programme in Ghana by providing cash transfers to 75,000 daily wage earners and smallholder farmers. The support is to address their food security and nutrition needs while they recover from the negative socio-economic effects of COVID-19 on their livelihoods.
Cash transfers Food Security Smallholder Farmers Ghana

WFP hands over humanitarian response facility to Azad Jammu & Kashmir to boost government emergency response capacity

MUZAFFARABAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today handed over a state-of-the-art Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) to the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The facility will be used to store and dispatch humanitarian relief supplies for future emergencies, augmenting national capacity and reducing the time needed to respond to crises.
WFP food distribution using Kéké rickshaws in Kano, Nigeria. Photo: WFP/Photogallery

Nigeria and WFP pioneer use of rickshaws and boats to get food and cash to coronavirus-affected city hotspots

KANO – The Nigerian Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19 hotspots of Abuja, Kano and Lagos. The Government has released 2,000 metric tons of food from its Strategic Grain Reserve (valued at US$1 million), while WFP is releasing US$3 million to provide cash assistance.
Emergencies Logistics and delivery networks Partnerships Nigeria
Photo: WFP/Carlos Alonzo, Mother with her child in San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala.

Paying the price for malnutrition, Guatemala loses over 16 percent of its GDP

GUATEMALA CITY – Undernutrition, overweight and obesity cost Guatemala US$12 billion in 2018 amounting to a significant 16.3 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a report released today by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Resources lost to malnutrition take away from hard won development gains.
Emergencies Food Security Nutrition Guatemala

EU and World Food Programme join forces to support vulnerable populations in Lebanon

BRUSSELS – Through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the Madad Fund, the European Union is working in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) to support vulnerable households in Lebanon, affected by the multiple crises confronting the country. With a total budget of €151.2 million in grants, which includes a new EU-WFP agreement worth €103.2 million signed this September, their assistance provides a critical lifeline to vulnerable Lebanese and refugees from Syria struggling to meet their basic needs.

China supports WFP's assistance to vulnerable people in East and West Africa

BEIJING - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of China have signed agreements to provide food assistance to vulnerable people in Ethiopia and Guinea whose food security is being further undermined by the socio-economic effects of COVID-19. The resulting loss of jobs in the casual labour market and the loss of remittances sent from abroad have had a huge impact on poor familes in many parts of the world.
Executive Director Food Security Partnerships Ethiopia Guinea

Japan helps WFP to provide vital assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people in Mozambique

Maputo – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of JPY 200 million (USD 1.87 million) from the Government of Japan to provide food assistance and livelihoods support to refugees and asylum-seekers living in Maratane Refugee Camp (Nampula Province) and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique.
Funding Partnerships Refugees and migration Japan Mozambique