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Mandate and operations
The World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organization, works towards achieving zero hunger by 2030. WFP has a dual mandate of “Saving Lives and Changing Lives”, meaning it works both in emergency preparedness and response, and in sustainable development and resilience projects, providing assistance to more than 97 million people across 88 countries in 2020.
WFP delivers food, cash and other assistance modalities to help countries counter the rippling impacts of emergencies and COVID-19 socio-economic shocks. In 2020, WFP tackled crises in 16 countries or regions, mostly fuelled by conflict. At the same time, WFP focuses on sustainable development, promoting long-term change by working in partnership with national governments and communities.
In addition to the above, WFP leads the Logistics Cluster, co-leads the Food Security Cluster with FAO, and manages both the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) and the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD). Finally, it also provides logistics and supply chain services to the humanitarian community.
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to WFP "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.".
WFP is entirely funded by donations from governments, companies and private individuals.
Standby Partnerships programme
WFP signed its first Standby Partnership Agreements (SBA) in 1996.
In 2024, the World Food Programme (WFP) continued to strengthen its operational capacity and responsiveness through the Standby Partnership (SBP) Programme, a critical mechanism operating under the umbrella of the Supply Chain and Delivery division that enables rapid deployment of technical expertise and services during emergencies and strategic initiatives. The SBP network, consisting of 31 governmental, non-governmental, and private sector partners, provided 139 deployments across 51 countries, contributing US$22.1 million in in-kind support, including eight service modules.