Informes

Chiredzi, 01 September 2016 – Some 52,897 (49%) rural households in Chiredzi are food insecure. At the moment 22,179 households have been prioritised and receiving assistance from Government, UN, donors, and NGOs. These rural households…

At least 17,000 preschool children in the Zamzam camp for the displaced in North Darfur have not had educational and psychosocial support since April. Speaking to Radio Dabanga from Zamzam, an activist explained that 48 child centres…

ADDIS ABABA – Today, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching cash transfers in support of Sudanese refugees living in Tongo and Sherkole camps in western Ethiopia. WFP has recently expanded its use of cash…

Introduction The gFSC Cash & Markets WG (CMWG) main purpose is to support Food Security clusters through development of tools and guidance and global advocacy for country level needs. In view of this, in April 2015 the CMWG…

As protests against the government continue, health facilities across the country are running at less than 30% capacity, Bhekisisa reports By Tawanda Karombo and Adri Kotzetawanda for Bhekisisa, part of the Guardian Africa network For the past week…

NAIROBI – A new study conducted in Rwanda has found that humanitarian assistance for refugees has a positive impact on the economies of surrounding host communities, and this impact is significantly greater when refugees receive cash…

Many Sudanese people displaced by fighting say that, with inflation driving price rises, a DfID-backed initiative to replace goods with e-cash is not working Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Darfur The UN World Food Programme is offering electronic vouchers…

For some time aid agencies and donors have recognised the benefits of utilising markets to deliver food assistance. And for almost as long, cash-based programming has been effective in doing this by improving people’s ability to…

Hundreds of women in South Sudan are transforming their lives with valuable new vocational skills learned through a social and economic empowerment training program supported by the World Food Programme and Women for Women International. The…

MASERU – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is giving cash assistance to 21,000 vulnerable people in Lesotho’s two districts worst-affected by the El Niño-related drought. This is WFP’s first ever emergency cash relief operation…