World Food Programme Aid
As the international community has committed to end hunger achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030 one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat.
World food programme aid. Wfp school feeding programme is considered to be the largest food safety net in the country. The coronavirus covid 19 pandemic is disrupting the world as we knew it with a heavy toll on human lives and economic activities its rapid global spread is threatening to affect millions of people already made vulnerable by food insecurity malnutrition and the effects of. For more than 50 years the world food programme wfp has provided emergency food assistance often in conflict post conflict or disaster situations. In 1965 wfp is enshrined as a fully fledged un programme.
The world food programme wfp is accelerating its shift from the direct provision of food assistance and services in kenya to the strengthening of national systems and capacities to deliver food and nutrition security. Subsequent decades consolidate wfp s role. It is to last for as long as multilateral food aid is found feasible and desirable. The world food programme promotes gender equality through leveraging our food assistance to bridge the gender gap.
The world food programme wfp is the food assistance branch of the united nations and the world s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. Our work with school meals smallholder farmers health nutrition and protection programmes boosts access to food and livelihoods. The world food programme is set to halve aid to parts of yemen s houthi controlled areas due to a funding crisis. According to the wfp it provides food assistance to an average of 91 4 million people in 83 countries each year.
To this day we continue to assist millions of people displaced rendered homeless or deprived of basic resources by cataclysmic events whether man made or natural avoidable or not. Every school day wfp delivers hot meals to close to 300 000 children each day across more than 1 000 schools mainly public throughout the country. The un says some donors have stopped their aid over concerns that deliveries were. Wfp continues to share performance data on its programmes with the open database of the international aid transparency initiative iati and in its corporate annual country and performance reports.
Assisting almost 100 million people in around 83 countries each year the world food programme wfp is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Wfp is working with the government to develop a nationally owned school feeding programme. The world food programme wfp discontinued its international food aid information system interfais and the collection of global food aid flow data.