Reports

Most recently completed school year: January–November 2018 (200 school days) • School Feeding Program • School Milk Program Lead Agency: School Health and Nutrition Branch, Ministry of Education

School year: 2020 • School Nutrition Programme • School Milk Programme Lead Agency: School Health and Nutrition Branch, Ministry of Education

Alerts issued to other potentially vulnerable districts as precaution. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued direct instructions to government officials, including the Matara District Secretary, to assess the urgent needs of the flood-affected people in the Matara District,…

In Numbers 20,086 mt of food distributed US$13.2 million in cash and vouchers distributed US$6.72 million six-month (September-December 2023) net funding requirements 956,158 people assisted in August 2023 Operational Updates Since the start of emergency operations in June 2022, WFP has reached over…

HIGHLIGHTS UNICEF South Asia supports country offices to ensure a robust regional response for children facing humanitarian emergencies. The Regional Office is working with all eight country offices in the region to reach approximately 45 million people,…

CONTEXT Humanitarian conditions continue to stabilize in Sri Lanka following a multifaceted crisis in 2022 which exacerbated acute food insecurity, poor macroeconomic conditions, protection concerns, and shortages of fuel and essential services across the country. Nevertheless, approximately…

Accountability central to Sri Lanka’s future - UN Human Rights report GENEVA (6 September 2023) – Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit - be it for war crime atrocities, more recent human rights violations, corruption,…

KEY HIGHLIGHTS Overall Headline Inflation (NCPI) has decreased from 10.8% to 4.6% in July 2023. Food inflation falls below 0, dropping from 2.5% in June to -2.5% in July 2023. Month-on-month change of NCPI contributed by -0.17% from food…

Executive Summary This study is one of a set of country scoping studies and part of a broader project commissioned by WFP’s Regional Bureau Bangkok exploring the use of social protection to enhance WFP’s work on improving food…

In Numbers Over 3 million people have received WFP assistance since the start of the emergency response in June 2022. 3.9 million people are estimated to be moderately acute food-insecure (Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission 2023). Highlights • WFP…