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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 80 countries. [5]
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service ( UNHAS ), created in 2003 at the request of the United Nations High Level Committee on Management, managed by the World Food Programme ( WFP ), provides common air services, including light cargo transport for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis and intervention.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) needs $400 million to feed millions of people in Southern Africa following a drought that plunged parts of the region into hunger, the programme said on Wednesday.
Cindy Lou McCain ( née Hensley; born May 20, 1954) [2] is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian who is the executive director of the World Food Programme. McCain previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023.
Jordan's foreign minister on Thursday called on the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to reverse a decision to cut food subsidies to Syrian refugees by Aug. 1. The WFP office in Amman ...
AI-powered robotic vehicles could deliver food parcels to conflict and disaster zones by as early as next year in a move aimed to spare the lives of humanitarian workers, a World Food Programme ...
www .undp .org. The United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP) [note 1] is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
WFP Goodwill Ambassador. WFP Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. WFP goodwill ambassadors are celebrity representatives of the World Food Programme (WFP) who use their ...