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The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

Background The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2.2 calls for an end to all forms of malnutrition. This might be derailed due to persistent landslide disasters in low-income...

Micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in many low- and middle-income countries, but tend to be most severe in children and in pregnant women, who have higher micronutrient requirements...

Over 89,000 children aged 6 to 59 months and 10,000 pregnant or lactating women (PLW) are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in the Karamoja region of Uganda...

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has eight member states – Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan and Uganda Its goal...

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

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Cash-based transfers empower people, while building resilience. This set of products outlines WFP’s work supporting communities with cash-based transfers. Sending money to people affected...

Highlights Food insecurity is rapidly worsening in Eastern Africa- an estimated 81.6 million people including IDPs, refugees and host communities in rural and urban areas...

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