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Emergency Response by WFP Logistics

Emergency Response by WFP Logistics. WFP. The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Forward Purchasing Facility (FPF) and Prepositioning initiative. Forward Purchasing Facility (FPF).

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Emergency Response by WFP Logistics

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  1. Emergency Response byWFP Logistics

  2. WFP The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

  3. Forward Purchasing Facility (FPF) and Prepositioning initiative

  4. Forward Purchasing Facility (FPF) • Since mid 2008: almost 430,000 mt mostly for the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes • Reduces procurement & transport lead times (from 86 to 1-45 days). Commodities are procured without having defined funding or final destinations

  5. Preposition of stocks • Similar to FPF but in addition keeps food stored at strategic locations, where WFP has operations and assets • Needs a reliable demand (HoA and GLK)

  6. WFP in emergencies have the dual mandate of delivering food aid and coordinating the logistics efforts of the humanitarian community through the logistics cluster.

  7. Apart from provision of transport and warehousing for humanitarian agencies, other activities of the Logistics Cluster are…

  8. WFP and the Logistics cluster set up camp in Port-au-Prince within 48 hours of the earth-quake and the first relief goods were flown in a day later. Haiti response

  9. WFP Logistics: Cluster Haiti

  10. WFP Logistics

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