World Food Programme Forward Purchase Facility

The Forward Purchase Facility (FPF) is an innovative pilot program of the World Food Programme (WFP) that allows WFP to make advance purchases of cereals and other food items at favourable prices to provide for future food aid emergency needs. By purchasing in advance of these emergency needs when food prices are favourable this makes the WFP able to reduce delivery times and achieve greater cost efficiencies. The FPF also supports the piloting of alternative procurement approaches which further strengthen WFP’s ability to purchase commodities at advantageous prices and provide capacity support within WFP's procurement and financial management functions.