Overview of WFP Mandate Operations WFP Emergency Preparedness and Response

1. World Food ProgrammeEmergency Preparedness and Response FrameworkUN/CMCoord Course (Finland), Dec 2003

2. Outline of Presentation • Overview of WFP • Mandate • Operations • WFP Emergency Preparedness and Response • Organisational Framework • Main Elements for Preparedness • Main Elements for Response

3. WFP’s four strategic priorities • Save lives in crisis situations • Protect livelihoods in crisis situations and enhance resilience to shock • Support the improved nutritional and health status of children, mothers and other vulnerable people • Support access to education and reduce gender disparity in access to education and skills training

4. Overview of WFP • WFP Mission: To Feed The Hungry Poor • The worlds largest international food aid organization / the front line UN organization fighting to eradicate world hunger • Emergency and development projects in 80 countries world wide with more than 9,000 national & international staff • Has invested in the last 30 years over US$ 24 billion and more than 43 million tons of food to: • Save Lives • Provide nutritional support at critical times • Support socio-economic development What is WFP ?

5. WFP and To whom, how much and cost • In 2002, WFP • assisted 72 million people in 82 countries • provided 3.7 million tons of food • received US$ 1.8 billion in contributions • (US$ 3.5 billion planned for 2003) WFP in Figures

6. WFP in 2002 • Humanitarian Relief 80 % Complex Emergencies Natural Disasters Protracted Relief and Recovery In 2002 – US$ 1.6 billion Rural Development, School Feeding & HIV/AIDs, MCH In 2002 – US$ 200 million WFP’s Portfolio • Development Activities 20 %

7. Emergency Preparedness and Response Concept This requires: • assessing food needs of affected populations; • identifying and mobilising adequate resources; and • maintain timely food aid supply chains to reach those in need.

8. Assessment(floods)

9. Assessment(earthquake)

10. WFP and Logistics

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18. WFP’s Logistics getting food to the beneficiary

19. WFP Objectives in Emergencies • reduce impact of disasters • Develop each country’s ability to cope with crises • Save lives by delivering and distributing relief • Promote recovery as early as possible • Achieve the objectives efficiently and accountably In major/complex emergencies WFP works with other agencies in a coordinated response

20. Organisational Framework Country Office Regional Bureau Headquarters Rome Decentralized Preparedness and Response Country Office has primary responsibility for implementing emergency preparedness and response activities Headquarters: activates of a range of different response systems (Immediate Response Account, the Emergency Response Roster, Stand-by Arrangements, etc). Regional Bureau: provides strategic, policy and overall management guidance, direction, feedback, feed forward and support to country offices. Regional Bureau: takes the lead when an emergency affects more than one country and are responsible for monitoring those countries in their region without a WFP presence Headquarters: provides normative guidance (such as the Field Emergency Pocketbook) and technical assistance (for example nutrition, contingency planning and air transport operations)

21. Elements of WFP Emergency Preparedness

22. Information Preparedness Early Warning Baseline Information Logistics Capacity Assessments (LCA) Natural Hazards Conflict early warning VAM Vulnerability Profiles External specialized sources Inter-agency early warning Baseline Surveys Framework Team Public Information Information Management Situation Room Public Information Strategies Emergency Preparedness Web WFP News Service

23. Programme & Mechanisms External Internal CAP IRA-EMOP CHAP EMOP UNDAC PRRO UNDMT Special Operation Security Management Team Country Programme

24. Stand-by Capacities Food Equipment Ready to Eat Foods Operational Support (RR) Stocks at UNHRD Contingency Stock Equipment in Regional Reserves Prearranged loan or purchase agreement Long Term Agreements Human Resources ERR Transport SBAs Trucking fleets/Aircraft under contract TDYs Logistics Service Packages Military and Civil Defense Assets Emergency Funding IRA CERF

25. Training Internal Training WFP Emergency Response Training WFP Contingency Planning Training Security Training

26. Main Elements of WFP Response Knowledge

27. Availability Criteria for Activation response Augmentation …of Stand-by capacities For WFP involvement Government request Food Resources Secretary-General request Human Resources Emergency needs assessment Operational Support Transport Emergency Funding

28. Management Coordination of response & Partnership Organizational …with multiple actors Affected population Information Management Host government Security Responsibilities NGOs/Civil society UN agencies Operational Planning Donors Financial Management …at various levels Local National Headquarters

29. WFP services to Humanitarian Community: A few examples….. • Inter-Agency Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD – Brindisi) • Inter-Agency Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) • Inter-Agency Logistics (UNJLC)

30. WFP Aviation • WFP currently manages an average of 50 aircraft in 8 Air Transport Operations: • Air Service in Angola • Air Service in Burundi • United Nations Common Air Service for Somalia • Air Service North Sudan • Operation Life-line Sudan (Lokichoggio) • West Africa WFP Air Service • UNHAS – Iraq and • UNHAS – Afghanistan

31. UNJLC • UN facility for coordination of logistics capabilities in large-scale emergencies • Plans and prioritizes movement of relief items • Temporary – at the outset & initial phase of an emergency • Activated through inter-agency consultation by IASC WG • WFP is the custodian (responsible for administrative and financial management)

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