World Food Programme - Long-term Institutional Support 2014

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations and is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger in the world. Its mandate is to provide food assistance quickly to vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies such as natural disasters civil conflict and war as well as to contribute to reducing global food insecurity. DFATD’s support to WFP helps: (1) save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies; (2) support or restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies; (3) reduce risk and enable people communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs; and (4) reduce under-nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.

The expected immediate outcomes of this project include: (1) improved access to food and nutrition assistance for food-insecure populations; and (2) increased ability of the World Food Programme to provide appropriate responses to humanitarian crises. The expected intermediate outcome is the reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.