With our new tracking app in #BurkinaFaso , World Food Programme ensures assistance reaches those in need:

⏳ swiftly
🔐 securely
✅ effectively

↪️ Swipe left for more info.

Cash is empowerment for many #Zimbabweans like Saru, enabling them to access the food they need. With El Niño's impact already looming, money serves as a vital buffer for urban dwellers, providing a shield against its effects. 🌧️🏙️

Thanks to EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 & Irish Aid!

Women in many parts of the world are excluded from the financial system. As a result, they have less control over their lives and futures.

But that’s changing as digital tools are helping women reach financial services.

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In pursuit of Zero Hunger and responding to multiple emergencies, in 2023, World Food Programme reached 36.6 million people with food assistance in the #MiddleEast , #NorthernAfrica , and #EasternEurope region.

Learn more about the impact of WFP's work in 2023. ⤵️

Exciting to see HesabPay driving financial inclusion for women in #Afghanistan with cashless payments! Kudos to WFP Innovation for highlighting this impactful project.

#FinancialInclusion #WomenEmpowerment WFP in Afghanistan 🌟

With the launch of HesabPay — the first digital payment platform in #Afghanistan , WFP in Afghanistan has opened 80k digital accounts since 2022, making cash assistance much easier and inclusive. 🌍💙

Read more: bit.ly/4ao6sbM

#InvestInWomen #SheInnovates

Dive into this WFP Evaluation latest report to understand the impact of #CashBasedTransfers on food security and get answers about the initiatives and the progress made towards alleviating hunger in El Salvador.👇

🇸🇻 In El Salvador, only 45.4% of women participate in the labour market, compared to 74.4% of men

👭 What happens when women are encouraged to work outside the home and get 💵?

➡️ World Food Programme asked, using a randomized evaluation and share our findings here: bit.ly/3TvZJG0

#HappyFriday

Our Delivery Assurance Services team supported WFP Ethiopia in designing a system that tracks food assistance so we know it will reach the most vulnerable.

Read more to understand how it's working. 👇

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It’s only through disaggregated data that we can build more equitable financial systems. It gives market actors a powerful window into the reality of women’s financial needs and behaviours.

Learn more👇

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Financial empowerment is 🔑 for women to break free from abusive situations.

World Food Programme is actively tackling Gender-Based Violence by supporting their #FinancialInclusion .

WFP's Faith Wachira elaborates on the crucial link between financial inclusion and #GBV ⬇️

Today, we celebrate the incredible resilience & strength of women & girls in #Somalia

World Food Programme aims to empower women to respond to their own & families' needs by making them more financially resilient through digital solutions

Watch how WFP Invests in Women to Accelerate Progress

👩‍💻 Ahead of #IWD2024 , check out #10Actions4Equality to #InvestInWomen and #InspireInclusion . Women's economic inclusion is crucial for job creation, business resilience, customer retention, poverty reduction, and more. Check out➡️ bit.ly/3oT7GpX

🌍🍽️ World Food Programme's new digital systems are transforming the way we deliver relief food in Ethiopia. Hear from Tadel Gebeyehu & many others on the difference World Food Programme's improved delivery system makes.

🔗 Read here: wfp.org/stories/ethiop…

The return of #ElNiño is expected to intensify the impact of drought in southern Africa.

In #Zimbabwe , families like Sarudzai's receive monthly WFP cash assistance so they can continue accessing nutritious foods and cushion the impact against shocks and stressors like El Niño.…

In Renk, South Sudan, I’m meeting with mothers like Tereza who have just escaped the war in #Sudan with her children.

Thanks to our German partners, World Food Programme provides families with cash assistance to buy food as soon as they cross the border.

1/2🚨On 7 March, join the online event ‘Economic Inclusion: Empowering Women for a Climate-Resilient Future’, organised by @peiglobal_org #OpenHouse

📅7 March
🕒9:30 AM (ET)
➡Register: tinyurl.com/2s7vbskw

🎥 Mar. 6 at 5pm EST/11pm CET: Watch #UNSGSA Queen Máxima on CNBC International's Equity & Opportunity. Celebrating 15yrs as UN Special Advocate, she speaks w/ Tania Bryer. A must-see for insights into her vision for an financially inclusive future. Trailer below. CNBC Int'l PR

More than 87,000 people have been displaced from South Lebanon due to ongoing hostilities

In addition to its regular assistance programmes in the South, World Food Programme supported 137,000 people with cash assistance & school snacks

Abdallah Alwardat 🇺🇳 explains more from a distribution site👇🏼

To be economically empowered, women everywhere need #DigitalFinancialInclusion .

In communities where little or no digital access for women is the social norm, their enterprises are unsupported and income prospects limited.

Here’s how we help change this 👇