United Nations World Food Programme

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United Nations World Food
Programme
Worlds Largest Humanitarian Agency In one year
alone (2003), they fed over 110 million people in
82 countries.
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World Food Programme

• What is the WFP?
• WFP is the worlds largest humanitarian
  organization
• WFP is the food aid agency of the United Nations.
  
• WFP also We Feed People

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Operations of WFP

• WFP Food reaches people through three different
  kinds of operations
• Emergency Ops WFP provides fast and efficient
  relief to millions of people that are victims of
  natural or man-made disasters. (i.e. South-East
  Asia Tsunami, Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, militia
  wars in Sierra Leone)
• 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
  under-nutrition. WFP uses food to help
  communities re-build their human capital. (i.e.
  FFW in North Korea)

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• 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
• WFF Work for Food
• School Feeding
• FFT Food for training
• Mother child nutrition and health
• HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes
  

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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.

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Funding Sources for WFP

• Governments
• Make up 98 of WFPs donor base
• Can be donors, recipients, or transitional (i.e.
  Colombia)
• Private (Only 2 of WFPs donor base)
• Individuals
• Companies and Corporations
• High Network individuals

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WFP faces several challenges

• 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

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Summer 2007 What I did!

• What I
• Research prospect donors
• Write donor compatibility reports
• Help develop guidelines
• Work on developing new partnerships. Develop MKTG
  messages
• Assist in acct. management

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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