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World Food Programme: WFP's Mission Statement |
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WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system.
Food aid is one of the many instruments that can help to promote food security,
which is defined as access of all people at all times to the food needed
for an active and healthy life.1 The policies governing
the use of World Food Programme food aid must be oriented towards the objective
of eradicating hunger and poverty. The ultimate objective of food aid should
be the elimination of the need for food aid.
Targeted
interventions are needed to help to improve the lives of the poorest people
- people who, either permanently or during crisis periods, are unable to
produce enough food or do not have the resources to otherwise obtain the
food that they and their households require for active and healthy lives.
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with its mandate, which also reflects the principle of universality, WFP
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 use
food aid to support economic and social development;
meet refugee and other emergency food needs, and the associated logistics
support; and ...
promote world food security in accordance with the recommendations of the
United Nations and FAO.
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core policies and strategies that govern WFP activities are to provide
food aid: |
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to save lives in refugee and other emergency situations;
b)
to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people
at critical times in their lives; and ...
c)
to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities,
particularly through labour-intensive works programmes.
In
the first case, food aid is essential for social and humanitarian protection.
It will be used in a way that is as developmental as possible, consistent
with saving lives. To the extent possible, the provision of relief food
aid will be coordinated with the relief assistance provided by other humanitarian
organizations. In the second case, food aid is a pre-investment in human
resources. In the third, it uses poor peopleï'most abundant resource,
their own labour, to create employment and income and to build the infrastructure
necessary for sustained development.
WFP is well placed to play a major role in the continuum from emergency relief
to development. WFPwill give priority to supporting disaster prevention,
preparedness and mitigation and post-disaster rehabilitation activities
as part of development programmes. Conversely, emergency assistance will
be used to the extent possible to serve both relief and development purposes.
In both cases the overall aim is to build self-reliance.
In
carrying out its mandate, WFPwill concentrate on what it is best
suited to do with the resources available as cost-effectively as possible. WFPwill focus on those aspects of development where food based interventions
are most useful. It will make all necessary efforts to avoid negative effects
on local food production, consumption patterns and dependency on food aid. WFPwill continue to play a major and significant role in providing transport
and logistic expertise and assistance to ensure rapid and efficient delivery
of humanitarian aid.
WFP 'multilateral character is one of its greatest strengths. WFPwill
exploit
its capability to operate virtually everywhere in the developing world,
without regard to the political orientations of governments, and to provide
a neutral conduit for assistance in situations where many donor countries
could not directly provide assistance.
WFP will provide services: advice, good offices, logistic support and information;
and support to countries in establishing and managing their own food assistance
programmes.
WFP,
on request, will provide bilateral services to donors, UN
agencies and NGOs on the basis of full cost recovery. These will
be administered and accounted for separately. Such services will complement WFP's
regular operations to the extent possible.
WFP will concentrate its efforts and resources on the neediest people2 and countries in accordance with the CFA's decision to provide at
least 90 percent of WFP's development assistance to low-income,
food-deficit countries and at least 50 percent of its development assistance
to the least developed countries.
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| WFP will ensure that its assistance programmes are designed and implemented
on the basis of broad-based participation. Women in particular are key
to change; providing food to women puts it in the hands of those who
use it for the benefit of the entire household, especially the children. WFPassistance will aim to strengthen their coping ability and resilience. |
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To
be truly effective, food aid should be fully integrated into the development
plans and priorities of recipient countries and coordinated with other
forms of assistance. WFP's starting point is the national policies,
plans and programmes of developing countries, including their food security
plans. WFPwill pull together its activities in an integrated way
at the country level so that it can respond to urgent needs as they occur
while retaining core development objectives. The country strategy note,
where this exists, should provide the framework for an integrated response
by the United Nations system. In some special cases WFPwill adopt
a multi-country or regional approach, particularly for the provision of
humanitarian assistance.
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No
single agency has either the resources or the capacity to deal with all
the problems of hunger and underdevelopment. Hence the importance WFPattaches to collaboration with other agencies, particularly with its parent
bodies, the United Nations and FAO. WFPwill continue to
work closely with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) in the response to emergencies and humanitarian crises. WFPwill also collaborate closely with the Rome-based United Nations food and
agriculture agencies, FAOand IFAD, especially in using food
aid for achieving household food security. WFP will continue to
forge effective partnerships of action with UNDP, the World Bankand the International Monetary Fund, regional bodies and institutions,
bilateral donors and NGOs in support of economic and social development.
WFP will play its part as an active member of the United Nations system to
bring the issue of hunger to the centre of the international agenda. In
its dialogue with recipient governments and the aid community, WFP will advocate policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit
the poor and hungry.
1
FAO/WHO (1992) International Conference on Nutrition.
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Normally, poor and hungry people are those who earn less than the equivalent
of one dollar a day, or who allocate the majority of their household budget
to food.
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| Source:
World Food Programme WFP 2008 |
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