The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a grant of JPY 5 billion (about US$34 million) from the Government of Japan to support WFP's emergency assistance to improve food security in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Yokohama — The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes a grant of JPY 5 billion from the Government of Japan to support WFP's emergency assistance to improve food security in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the food insecurity situation is further deteriorating due to a wide range of factors, including conflict, terrorism, political instability, natural disasters, extreme weather, infectious diseases and inflation caused by the conflict in Ukraine.
From the contribution, JPY 1.4 billion will be used to assist the most desperate people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through emergency food distribution, nutrition assistance and the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service operation which enables uninterrupted delivery. In the DRC, more than 23 million, or 20 percent of the population, are facing crisis or emergency levels of hunger, triggered by intensifying conflict, disease, displacement, and poor infrastructure.
A further grant of JPY 451 million will go to emergency food and nutrition assistance programmes for people in need, including IDPs and host communities in Mali. IDPs are placing a heavy burden on host communities who are already struggling to meet their basic needs. Over half of the IDPs rely entirely on humanitarian assistance to survive. WFP's assistance is a lifeline to many.
This project is a testimony to the commitment of the Government of Japan to"support the strengthening food security and sustainable agriculture" announced in TICAD8 in August 2022 and further restated in G7 Hiroshima in May 2023.
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