United Nations
World Food Programme
World’s Largest Humanitarian Agency:
In one year alone (2003), they fed over 110
million people in 82 countries.
World Food Programme
What is the WFP?
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WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian
organization
WFP is the food aid agency of the United
Nations.
WFP also = We Feed People
Operations of WFP
WFP Food reaches people through three different kinds of
operations:
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Emergency Ops: WFP provides fast and efficient relief to millions of
people that are victims of natural or man-made disasters. (i.e. SouthEast Asia Tsunami, Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, militia wars in Sierra
Leone)
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Long-term and Recovery Ops: During humanitarian crises triggered by
armed conflict and climate conditions (drought or floods)
consequences on people often persist for many years causing undernutrition. WFP uses food to help communities re-build their human
capital. (i.e. FFW in North Korea)
3. Development Programmes: In collaboration with other UN
agencies help re-built infrastructures in the community and
provide education such as basic reading and writing skills,
and farming and agricultural techniques to improve
production of produce, cattle, etc. Some examples are:
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WFF: Work for Food
School Feeding
FFT: Food for training
Mother child nutrition and health
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes
School Feeding
• WFP works with schools, local and
national governments, donors and aid
groups to use food to attract children
to school.
• WFP works to make the school
feeding project self-sustaining. Thus
far, 20 countries have taken full
responsibility for school feeding.
• It only costs WFP 19 cents a day to
feed a child in school.
Funding Sources for WFP
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Governments
Make up 98% of WFP’s donor base
 Can be donors, recipients, or transitional (i.e.
Colombia)
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Private (Only 2% of WFP’s donor base)
Individuals
 Companies and Corporations
 High Network individuals
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WFP faces several challenges
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Increase in price of commodity products such as beans,
wheat, and grains due to rising global population, more
frequent floods and droughts caused by climate change; and
the bio-fuel industry's appetite for grains.
Increase in price of fuels, increases operating cost to deliver
food
Due to political instability, ethnic wars, the increase of
natural disasters the number of beneficiaries has increased
substantially while donations from governments have
decreased
Exchange rate loss of dollar versus Euro
Summer 2007: What I did!
What I
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Research prospect donors
Write donor compatibility reports
Help develop guidelines
Work on developing new partnerships. Develop
MKTG messages
Assist in acct. management
What It Did for me!
•Ticket to Rome = € 726 ($1,000
USD)
•Room and Board = € 2, 177
($3,000USD)
•Improving my interpersonal and
communication skills, working in a
multicultural environment, adding
nice line to my Resume, and
knowing I can make a difference
= Priceless