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Website. wfp.org. Politics portal. The World Food Programme[ a ] (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization [ 2 ][ 3 ] and the leading provider of school meals. [ 4 ] Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in ...
The U.S., the largest humanitarian donor to both Ethiopia and WFP, also paused food aid. U.S. officials have said they believe the theft could be the largest-ever diversion of donated food.
This is a list of government-owned companies of Ethiopia. A Government-owned corporation is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government . There is no standard definition of a government-owned corporation (GOC) or state-owned enterprise (SOE), although the two terms can be used interchangeably.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards and controls, following reports of large-scale theft of ...
Purchase for Progress (P4P) is an initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), [1] involving over 500 partnerships, including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, FAO, ACDI/VOCA, TechnoServe and others. Launched in September 2008 as a five-year pilot, P4P sought to explore programming and ...
June 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM. By Aaron Ross. NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme hopes to resume some food aid distribution in Ethiopia as soon as next month once it has received ...
Manoj Juneja (born 1960) is the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). [1] [2] Prior to joining WFP, he served in 2011-12 as Deputy Director-General for Operations at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), [3] and in 2003-04 as Executive Director at the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Ethiopia's economy experienced strong, broad-based growth averaging 9.4% a year from 2010/11 to 2019/20. Ethiopia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed down to 6.1% in 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [77] Industry, mainly construction, and services accounted for most of the growth.