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Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are struggling to reduce poverty and vulnerability—COVID-19 and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making the task even...

The SEMED group of countries are among the largest grain, wheat, and foodstuff importers globally. The share of imports in domestic availability of calories ranges from a sizeable 37 percent...

An infographic summary of WFP's engagements in supporting national social protection in 2021, categorized across key elements of the WFP Strategy for Support to Social Protection. The report gives...

The WFP Lebanon Social Protection Factsheet provides an overview of WFP’s National Poverty Targeting Programme and Institutional Capacity Strengthening activities in Lebanon. The National Poverty Targeting...

This Synthesis Evaluation of Emergency School Feeding in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Niger and Syria (2015-2019) is a collection of findings from individual country of the four-country Evaluation Series on Emergency...

MAIN FINDINGS Type of humanitarian assistance intervention: Unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) are the most common type of humanitarian assistance intervention, followed by food transfers...

Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters...

Nearly 15 million children between 5-14 years old are out of school in MENA, and 10 million are in school but at risk of dropping out due...

The National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP) was launched in 2011 by the Government of Lebanon (GOL) with technical and financial assistance from the World Bank. It is the only poverty-targeted social...