2. Introduction
World Food Programme
• What is World Food Programme?
• WFP is a food aid branch of the United Nation.
• The world largest humanitarian organization addressing
hunger issue worldwide.
• Provides food to an average of 90 millions people per
year.
• Headquarter in Rome with more than 80 country offices
around the world.
• When is World Food Programme established?
• 1960 - Food and Agricultural Organization(FAO)
Conference – George McGovern, director of US Food for
Peace Programme, proposed to establish a multilateral
food aid program.
• 1961 – WFP was established.
• 1963 – WFP was formally established by FAO and the
United Nation General Assembly on a three-year
experimental basis.
• 1965- The programme was extended to a continuing
basis.
3. Contributions
World Food Programme
• In 2007, the World Food Programme launched the first annual
World Hunger Relief Week together with YUM! Brands, the
world’s largest restaurant company. The World Hunger Relief
Week is a global campaign to promote awareness about
hunger, engage volunteers, and raise critically needed funds to
help WFP serve the world's areas of greatest need.
• World Hunger Relief Week 2007 attracted nearly 35,000
restaurants around the world and brought millions of support
from customers, employees, franchisees and their families,
with intention to end hunger.
• Nearly one million Yum!, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John
Silver's and A&W All American Food employees, franchisees
and their families volunteered to aid hunger relief efforts in
communities worldwide for nearly 40 million hours. At the
same time, they helped to raise $16 million throughout the
World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food
Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the
world.
4. Contributions
World Food Programme in Kenya
• WFP, the largest implementer of school feeding programmes
in the world had reached an average of 22 million children in
school in around 70 countries globally. WFP’s school meals
programme in Kenya is one of the largest and most long-
standing project since 1980.
• From 1999 onwards, due to the increased frequency of food
crises resulting from drought and political violence and the
introduction of free compulsory primary education in 2003,
the programme in Kenya expanded significantly, peaking at
1.85 million children in over 5,000 schools.
• In 2008, the Government of Kenya took over responsibility for
half the programme, while WFP focused on providing meals in
primary schools with the lowest education indicators in the
most food insecure part of the country. Government of Kenya
has high commitment to education. A new programme of
Home-Grown School Feeding and a new policy on School
Health and Nutrition herald an integrated, cross-sectoral
approach, including commitment to providing a ‘balanced’
meal at school.
5. Contributions
World Food Programme (Current project)
• Currently, the World Food Programme is
working in the Horn of Africa by streaming
food into the countries of Ethiopia, Kenya,
Somalia, Djibouti and Uganda. These
nations were subjected to a severe drought
situation, declared a famine situation by the
UN on 20 July 2011.
• This drought has been declared as the
"worst drought" of the Horn of Africa in
60 years. Approximately 12 million people
are in danger of death due to starvation.
• The Program aims to feed one hungry
person for a day in this region with just
50 US cents or 35 eurocents.
African Children queuing up for food
6. Impacts
Impact of World Food Programme’s policy
• Schools that offered school meals were on average 28% higher
enrolment rates than those who did not. The difference was
even more marked in the early grades.
• The rate of completion of primary education was also higher
in schools offering school meals, especially for girls, and a
higher percentage of children from primary schools that
offered meals moved on to secondary school after
graduating.
• School meals had a positive effect on attendance rates and on
scores in examinations in the final year of primary school.
• Educational outcomes have become more positive in urban
areas than in rural semi-arid and arid areas.
• In schools with nearly as many women teachers as men, the
number of girls and boys are also closer to parity.
• School meals have make a significant and positive contribution
to reducing students’ hunger and improving nutritional intake
