The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian
agency fighting hunger worldwide.
In emergencies, we get food to where it is needed, saving
the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters.
After the cause of an emergency has passed, we use food
to help communities rebuild their shattered lives.
WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily
funded. Born in 1962, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman
and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life.
We work towards that vision with our sister UN agencies in Rome - the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- as well as other government, UN and NGO partners.
In 2009 we aim to reach more than 100 million people with
food assistance in 74 countries. Around 10,000 people work for the organization,
most of them in remote areas, directly serving the hungry poor.
For more info about WFP please visit
www.wfp.org
To meet the food needs of the most vulnerable and food-insecure
non-refugees in urban and rural areas of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, WFP is
implementing an Emergency Operation in the Gaza Strip and a Relief and Recovery
Operation in the West Bank.
Both operations have the secondary objective to use WFP’s purchasing power to support
the Palestinian economy, thereby contributing to the Palestinian Authority (PA)
State Building plan.
In 2012, the emergency operation in Gaza assists 285,000 food insecure non-refugees
through the following activities:
General
food distributions:
Targeting the Palestinians showing
the highest consumption gap under the deep poverty line. The activity also includes
support to institutions (such as orphanages and hospitals).
School Feeding:
as an emergency safety net and to enhance concentration at school.
Voucher
project (E-vouchers):
to improve the diet quality (through the consumption of
local food products, mostly protein-rich dairy products and eggs) of the food insecure
urban population also living under the deep poverty line.
The 2011-2012 relief and recovery operation in the West
Bank assists 363,000 food insecure non-refugees. 2012 activities include:
General food distributions:
targeting the Palestinians living under the deep poverty line. The activity also
includes support to institutions and a joint assistance programme targeting Bedouin
and Herder communities living in Israeli-controlled Area C, in cooperation with
the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
School feeding:
as an emergency safety net and to enhance concentration
at school.
Urban voucher
project (E-vouchers):
to increase the dietary diversity (through the consumption of local food products,
mostly protein-rich dairy products) of the food insecure urban and peri-urban population.
Voucher for work/voucher for training (conditional E-vouchers):
for the re-establishment of agricultural livelihoods and food security of communities
most affected by the conflict. The activity targets poor farmers, farmers affected
by the West Bank Barrier, unskilled workers and rural female-headed households.
In line with the Palestinian Authority (PA) policy and evaluation recommendations,
whenever possible, WFP undertakes local procurement and processing to support the
economy and food production capacity.
The WFP relief activities are part of the 2011-2013 oPt Consolidated Appeals Process
(CAP) while the WFP recovery activities have been integrated in the 2011-2013 UN
Medium Term Response Plan (MTRP) for oPt.
