Emergency Food Assistance to Internally Displaced Populations in Pakistan - WFP 2009

Pakistan has witnessed one of the largest fastest displacements the world has seen in the last 15 years and certainly the largest in Pakistan's history. At the height of the conflict the United Nations estimated that more than 2 million people were displaced from their homes. Although the internally displaced population housed in temporary camps has begun to return home conflict and displacement continue in multiple districts and approximately 80% of the displaced remain with host families whose social and economic resources have been overwhelmed by the severity of needs and the duration of the conflict. This emergency operation helps to save lives and avert hunger of internally displaced persons (IDPs) both inside and outside camps and prevent malnutrition among infants young children and pregnant and nursing mothers affected by armed conflict. Beneficiaries are reached through general food distribution and supplementary food distributions to children.