Reports

ROME - As nearly one billion poor people worldwide struggle to survive the unrelenting global high food and fuel price crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today the roll-out of a US$214 million package directed at…

NAIROBI, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - Hard-pressed to find efficient ways of delivering aid, humanitarian agencies are turning to new technologies. One such innovation involves mobile phones to send cash. One such project was piloted in Baringo North and Pokot…

The United Nations World Food Program meets Tuesday in Rome to discuss the global food crisis. By Rob Crilly | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor KERIO VALLEY, KENYA - The hungry people of Kenya's Kerio Valley had waited since dawn…

PORT LOUIS, 16 April 2008 (IRIN) - A funding shortfall has prevented vital food aid deliveries to tens of thousands of Malagasy people hit by this year's deadly cyclones, leaving many vulnerable to other natural disasters, said the World…

HARARE, 18 March 2008 (IRIN) - Extra cash in the pockets of civil servants ahead of the elections and a spiralling foreign exchange rate has pushed up the prices of basic foodstuffs and essential items by 300 percent in…

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, March 13 (UNHCR) The UN refugee agency's introduction last August of cash grants for Burundian returnees appears to have both encouraged more people to go back home and eased their reintegration. In the months since the 50,000 Burundian Francs…

NAIROBI, 10 March 2008 (IRIN) - Insecurity is delaying food aid deliveries to needy people in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, the UN food agency has reported, adding that lack of funding for its crucial aid service could make…

By Anwulika Okafor MCHINJI DISTRICT, Malawi, 14 January 2007 - Over the last 10 years, Blackson Kalinde and his wife Sara have lost three of their children and their children's spouses to AIDS, leaving 20 of their grandchildren orphaned. The…

HARARE, 23 November 2007 (IRIN) Just when life could not become any harder for Zimbabweans, who are already having to cope with food and fuel shortages and rocketing prices, local banks have run out of notes. Long queues of people…

Introduction This report summarises the findings from a study undertaken to assess whether or not a cash based response by World Vision to the current drought in Lesotho would be appropriate and feasible, as part of the organisation's overall relief…