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United Nations World Food Programme Fighting Hunger

United Nations World Food Programme Fighting Hunger. What is the World Food Programme ?. WFP is the largest humanitarian agency in the world. Personnel: Over 10,000 staff worldwide Operations: at any point in time, 40 vessels on sea, 20 planes in the air and 5,000 trucks on roads.

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United Nations World Food Programme Fighting Hunger

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  1. United Nations World Food Programme Fighting Hunger

  2. What is the World Food Programme ? WFP is the largest humanitarian agency in the world. • Personnel: Over 10,000 staff worldwide • Operations: at any point in time, 40 vessels on sea, 20 planes in the air and 5,000 trucks on roads. • WFP accounts for over 95% of all multilateral targeted food aid shipments around the world • Established 1963

  3. What does WFP do ? • In 2003, WFP provided food to over 104 million people in 82 countries, worldwide. • Delivered 8 million tons of food; valued at 3 billion US dollars. Food distributions to vulnerable populations (refugees, IDPs) Mother and Child Health Feeding; School Feeding; Food for Work; and Food for Training.

  4. WFP Bureau for Asia (Bangkok,Thailand) 12 Country Offices 2005 Plan • 22 million people to be assisted • Tsunami operations • 1.1 million metric tons of food to be delivered • Early Warning of flood and drought • Emergency Preparedness

  5. Asia’s “silent emergency” Underweight Children 100 million Chronically Food Insecure people 500 million

  6. Long-term Programmes: School Feeding “There are few things that are so unnecessary as child hunger or so wasteful as unexplored intelligence. School feeding programmes address both problems at once. If we can find the resolve and the resources, we can eliminate these features from the human landscape in a single generation.” - James Morris, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme

  7. Other Long Term Programmes Mother and Child Health Food for Work

  8. 31,000 15,000 133,000 26,000 915,000 42,000 720,000 Total Beneficiaries Reached: 1.88 million (as of April 11)

  9. WFP Tsunami Emergency Operations Logistics Assets: • 4 sea vessels, • 2 cargo vessels (floating warehouses) • 2 landing craft • 3 fixed-wing aircraft • 7 helicopters • 32 warehouses, (permanent or temporary) • 200+ trucks • 60 light vehicles

  10. WFP Tsunami Emergency Operations Personnel UN International Staff deployed to the region on TDY; International consultants (hired for short-term); UN National Staff redeployed within country; National consultants (hired for short-term);

  11. UN Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC) • Infrastructure Assessments • Road Assessments (Indonesia and Sri Lanka) • Planned Logistics Capacity Assessment (Maldives) • Logistic Information Management • Civil/Military Coordination (Indonesia and Thailand) • Build Host Government capacity in logistic and tracking information (Indonesia) • Air and Surface Movement Coordination • Managing cargo airlift out of Subang airbase (Malaysia). • Prioritizing cargo transport for airlifts (Indonesia) • Logistics Augmentation • Clearing airport bottlenecks (Sri Lanka) • Opening sea ports (Indonesia)

  12. UN Humanitarian Air Service (UN HAS) 7 Helicopters and 3 planes now operating, transporting humanitarian workers and cargo. As of 15 February 2005 • More than 30 trip per day, average • Nearly 4,000 passengers from 130 UN agencies and NGOs; • More than 300 MT of cargo transported on WFP or chartered cargo aircraft.

  13. WFP Logistics Support to UN agencies • 5 Temporary Office Units; • 28 Temporary Accommodation Units; • 70 mobile warehouses and equipment; • 40 water purification units; • 3 fuel storage tanks; • 11 trucks and 8 light vehicles; • 150 emergency deployment and first aid kits; and • 20 stand-by logistic personnel

  14. WFP Asia Emergency Response Facility (AERF). • Storage and maintenance facility located outside of • Phnom Penh, Cambodia • Deployments from the AERF in response to the tsunami included: • Temporary Office and Housing Units • Transportable Warehouses (Wiikhalls) • Water Purification Units • Fuel Storage Tanks • Trucks and Light Vehicles

  15. WFP’s Top Donors in 2004 (millions of USD)

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