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World Food Programme:
Overview
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest
humanitarian organization working towards zero hunger
by 2030.
WFP is the first on the scene in an emergency, providing
food and other assistance to the victims of conflict, drought,
floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, crop failures and pandemics.
At the same time, we focus on sustainable development,
promoting long-term change by working in partnership
with national governments.
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Saving lives
WFP manages complex emergencies where communities
are hungry, homeless or without any source of income. We
coordinate responses to large-scale emergencies on behalf
of the wider humanitarian community, as the lead agency of
the Logistics Cluster and the Emergency Telecommunications
Cluster, and we co-lead the Food Security Cluster.
Two-thirds of WFP’s work is in conflict-affected countries,
where people are three times more likely to be
undernourished than elsewhere.
Our largest emergency response is currently in Yemen, with
ongoing conflict causing one of the world’s worst hunger
crises, while in Syria we are
assisting millions of people
displaced by the ongoing civil war. Northeastern Nigeria
and South Sudan are among other countries where WFP
is assisting those affected by violence and insecurity. Our
response can include a combination of food, cash, nutrition
supplements and school feeding. In the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, another country where conflict and hunger
fuel one another, WFP is also helping to contain an Ebola
outbreak by providing food and logistical services.
Our engineers are critically important in emergency
response. In addition to food assistance for thousands of
Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar into Bangladesh, our
engineers created safe, level land at Kutupalong camp to
lessen the threat posed by monsoons.
A rapidly increasing number of
climate shocks
also demand
swift and decisive responses. When Cyclone Idai struck
Mozambique and floods washed away an estimated 400,000
hectares of crops in early 2019, WFP deployed quickly to
provide food and vouchers, while also planning recovery,
reconstruction and resilience-building activities. We also
restored vital communications networks to accelerate the
response by government and humanitarian partners.
Our emergency work is also pre-emptive, in seeking to offset
the potential impact of disaster. In the Sahel region of Africa,
where economic challenges, climate variability and armed
militants combine to create a highly unstable environment,
WFP worked with local communities to harvest water for
irrigation and restore degraded land, while also promoting
improved health and education services and improved
livelihoods.
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Changing lives
WFP also has a sharp focus on long-term solutions to
hunger and undernutrition. We further aim to prevent future
emergencies rather than simply responding to them.
By working to change lives we are providing a cornerstone for
sustainable development, seeking to build resilience and make
the world a stable, more peaceful place. These pre-emptive
actions can also be highly cost-effective. For example,
US$1 invested in climate risk management and disaster risk
reduction can save around US$3 in humanitarian response.
SCHOOL FEEDING
WFP is the largest humanitarian organization implementing
INNOVATION AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
WFP, with a track record of innovation, is building practical,
needs-based digital solutions to help achieve zero hunger.
We partner with leading tech companies, entrepreneurs,
NGOs and others to develop cutting-edge approaches at
scale. In Jordan we deploy blockchain technology that allows
over 100,000 Syrian refugees to buy groceries through iris
scans rather than vouchers. In drought-hit Chad, WFP is
scaling up a
hydroponics cultivation system
which allows
refugees to grow fresh fodder with no soil and little water. We
use mobile technology and artificial intelligence to conduct
and analyze data about household food needs in remote and
hard-to-reach regions, from Yemen to Papua New Guinea.
We have deployed drones for rapid and detailed assessments
within minutes of a disaster striking, for example after
Mozambique’s Cyclone Desmond.
SMALLHOLDER SUPPORT
In addition to home-grown school feeding, our smallholder
programmes include the private-sector focused Farm to
Market Alliance, which connects smallholders to markets and
helps them diversify their crops and increase their business
potential. These programmes complement established
CLIMATE ACTION
Climate shocks such as droughts and floods can wipe out
crops, disrupt markets and destroy roads and bridges. WFP
is working with governments and humanitarian partners on
the frontlines of the global climate crisis, responding to an
increasing number of
climate-related disasters.
At the same
time, we take pre-emptive action to prepare communities
and limit damage. This also reduces the number of people
requiring humanitarian assistance.
We help restore land by giving food assistance to communities
in return for them working on activities such as tree-planting
and irrigation. We protect by providing climate-risk insurance
to vulnerable people, and we anticipate through more
advanced weather forecasting and resulting actions that help
families prepare for disasters through measures such as
delayed planting of crops or stockpiling of food.
UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN AIR SERVICE (UNHAS)
This WFP-led service provides access for humanitarian
workers and cargo to the world’s most remote and
challenging locations, allowing life-saving work that would
otherwise be impossible. As a prime example, the closure of
Sana’a airspace made UNHAS the only common air service for
NUTRITION
While our priority has long been addressing undernutrition
in emergencies, over recent years we have broadened our
humanitarian organizations in Yemen. With over 60 aircraft,
UNHAS also provides medical and security evacuations.
CASH ASSISTANCE
WFP is the largest cash provider in the humanitarian
community. Cash empowers families to choose food and
other items they really need through local markets. It can also
help strengthen local markets and economies, encouraging
smallholders to be more productive.
support including food assistance, training and, under the
approach known as
Food Assistance for Assets,
taking part
in projects such as restoring land and repairing roads.
school feeding programmes. As part of our drive towards
sustainability, WFP handed over school feeding programmes
to governments in Kenya and Bhutan in 2018. School meals
improve children’s nutrition and health, while also increasing
access to a potentially
life-changing education.
They are
also a strong incentive for parents to send their children to
school, reducing risks such as child labour and early marriage
in some countries. WFP buys food locally where possible, with
home-grown school feeding in turn increasing incomes for
smallholder farmers.
focus to all forms of malnutrition including vitamin and
mineral deficiencies and overweight and obesity.
We address
malnutrition
from the earliest stages through programmes
targeting the first 1,000 days from pregnancy to a child’s
second birthday. We focus on providing access to healthy
and adequate diets, targeting young children, pregnant and
breastfeeding women and people living with HIV.
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WFP in numbers
17,000
staff worldwide
5,600 trucks, 20 ships
and
92 planes
on the move each day
US$7.2 billion
raised in 2018 through 100% voluntary funding
86.7 million beneficiaries
and operations in
83 countries
16.4 million children
receiving school meals in
60 countries
40 countries
where WFP
connects smallholders to markets
US$1.76 billion
paid in cash transfers
52%
of those receiving food assistance are
women and girls
World Food Programme
Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68/70,
00148 Rome, Italy
T +39 06 65131 wfp.org
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