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Food safety and quality

Working every day in 80 countries to bring food assistance to millions of children, women and men, the World Food Programme (WFP) must ensure that the food it delivers is safe, nutritious and of good quality.

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Wellness and accommodation services

A healthy workforce enables WFP to reach the world’s most food insecure people. Ensuring staff wellness is therefore a responsibility the Organization has not only towards its employees, but also towards the donors who entrust it with their money and the beneficiaries who rely on its capacity to deliver.

Publication | 18 March 2024

Research Programme on Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Caribbean

The objective of these studies is to generate evidence and inform practice for improved emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean region linked to more flexible national social protection systems. The main research question for these studies is: ‘What factors enable social protection systems to be more responsive to shocks’?

Story | 08 January 2024

Rice to the rescue: A WFP project changes lives and diets in flood-hit South Sudan

It is midday in Halbul, in northern South Sudan, and farmer Nyandeng Noon Agany is visibly exhausted as she walks home in the harsh dry season heat, after spending hours harvesting rice.

News release | 12 June 2024

WFP and African Development Bank project boosts wheat production in war-torn Sudan, amid soaring hunger

“This wheat production project to the tune of USD 75 million financed by the African Development Bank became the heart of production in the critical moment in Sudan. It provided food security, yielding 645,000 metric tonnes of wheat this year, and also became a critical crisis response intervention to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

News release | 02 April 2024

France and Germany bolster nutrition and education for young girls and women in Lao PDR

The visit underscores substantial investments in the country from the Governments of France and Germany and their ongoing partnership with the Government of Lao PDR and WFP, particularly focusing on women's empowerment amid deteriorating food security conditions.

News release | 26 June 2024

UN Rome-based Agencies and COP Presidencies mobilise for climate action and finance in fragile contexts ahead of COP29

Rome—The UN World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the COP28 and COP29 presidencies have today called for an urgent scaling up of climate action and financing for adapted and resilient agrifood systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings. The call was made during a high-level Rome meeting in

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Supply chain for cash transfers

Supply chain assessment to define type of assistance, emergency cash, retail engagement strategy and contracting of money transfer providers

News release | 06 June 2024

WFP expands emergency response to avert famine in war-torn Sudan

The UN food agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to an additional 5 million people by the end of this year, doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.

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Monitoring, evaluation and learning

Whether it is delivering assistance in the midst of conflict or helping in the aftermath of a natural disaster, the World Food Programme (WFP) is required to respond readily to crises or emergencies. Being accountable to the people we serve and those that provide funds, we need to measure performance and demonstrate results while meeting the needs of beneficiaries.