World Food Programme

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Over the years, WFP has reached hundreds of millions of people in about 80 countries, using food assistance to meet emergency needs and support economic and social development.

WFP is also the UN logistics lifeline, saving lives through fast, efficient and effective emergency response. At any given time, WFP has 30 ships at sea, 70 aircraft in the sky and 5,000 trucks on the ground, moving food and other assistance to where it is needed most.

WFP has developed sophisticated early warning techniques to assess the need for food aid in emergencies and instances of chronic hunger, meaning that its assistance is targeted to the poorest and most malnourished people.

Since it was founded in 1963, WFP has fed more than 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people, and invested more than US$30 billion in development and emergency relief.

When its help is no longer required, WFP hands over its projects to governments. Nearly 30 countries have taken over WFP programs in the past 10 years.

WFP is funded completely by voluntary donations. WFP has nearly tripled its donations from emerging donors in the public and private sectors. In 2006, WFP received contributions from 97 governments and more than 80 private sector donors.

In 2007, WFP provided 3.3 million tons of food for 86.1 million people in 80 countries worldwide:

• 62.3 million people in emergency and relief operations
• 23.8 million people in development projects
• 51.8 percent of WFP’s beneficiaries, 44.6 million, were in Africa including:
  • 53.6 million children
  • 19.3 million children at school
  • 71.6 million women and children
  • 44.9 million women and girls
  • 8.8 million internally displaced people
  • 1.9 million refugees
  • 1.3 million people affected by HIV/AIDS (in 20 of the 25 highest HIV/AIDS prevalence countries)

For more information on WFP, please visit their site at www.wfp.org.

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