THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME IN
FACTS AND FIGURES
2014
THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME IN
FACTS AND FIGURES
2014
W F P ’ S K E Y A C H I E V E M E N T S
80 MILLION PEOPLE
reached with food assistance in
82 COUNTRIES
Children remained the primary focus of WFP’s support, accounting for
64 PERCENT
of total beneficiaries
W F P ’ S K E Y A C H I E V E M E N T S
WFP reduced the average lead time
FROM 120 TO 68 DAYS
to procure and move food to recipient countries
W F P ’ S K E Y A C H I E V E M E N T S
W F P ’ S K E Y A C H I E V E M E N T S
WFP assisted more than
42 MILLION PEOPLE
in emergencies
EMERGENCIES EMERGENCIES
In 2014, WFP worked on 6 simultaneous Level 3 emergencies.
Level 3 is the highest category for a WFP emergency,
requiring the mobilisation of a global, corporate response to support the Country Office and/or Regional Bureau.
L E V E L 3
EMERGENCIES EMERGENCIES
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
WFP assisted more than a million people forced to flee their homes due to breakdown of law and order.
IRAQ
Conflict across the country in the summer of 2014 triggered widespread internal displacement and overwhelming humanitarian needs.
WFP responded by providing food assistance to some 2.2 million people.
PHILIPPINES
WFP provided more than a million people with food and cash following the Super-Typhoon Haiyan that smashed into the Philippines archipelago in 2013 and posed a logistics challenge requiring massive mobilisation of resources.
SOUTH SUDAN
Conflict pushed millions into food insecurity in the world’s newest country.
Even before the conflict, WFP was assisting more than 2 million people.
SYRIA
The Syrian Regional Emergency continued to be WFP’s largest and most complex operation.
WFP provided food for as many as 4.9 million people inside Syria and assisted more than a million refugees in neighbouring countries.
WEST AFRICA
The 2014 Ebola epidemic was the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa - Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone.
In response, WFP provided critically needed food to more than 2 million people, logistics expertise to humanitarian agencies and built treatment centres in the three countries.
L E V E L 3
P E O P L E W H O R E C E I V E D W F P A S S I S T A N C E
66.8 66.8
M I L L I O N
WOMEN AND CHILDREN R E F U G E E S
INTERNALLY
DISPLACED PEOPLE
14.8 14.8
M I L L I O N
6.7 6.7
M I L L I O N
800,000 800,000
R E T U R N E E S
25.3 MILLION BOYS AND
25.7 MILLION GIRLS
Ethiopia 5.3 Syria 4.9 Yemen 4.4 Sudan 4.3 Pakistan 3.4 Afghanistan 3.3 Philippines 3.2 Malawi 2.8 South Sudan 2.6 Kenya 2.5 Iraq 2.3 Mali 1.9 Palestine 1.9 DPR Korea 1.8 Niger 1.8 Zimbabwe 1.7 Bangladesh 1.6 Central African Republic 1.6 Honduras 1.6 Jordan 1.5 Somalia 1.5 Dem. Rep. Congo 1.4 Chad 1.3 Haiti 1.2 Sierra Leone 1.2 Myanmar 1.1
Lebanon 1 Senegal 1 Burundi 0.9 Zambia 0.9 Uganda 0.8 Cambodia 0.7 Egypt 0.7 Guinea 0.7 Liberia 0.7 Tanzania 0.7 Burkina Faso 0.6 Côte d'Ivoire 0.6 Madagascar 0.6 Colombia 0.5 Mauritania 0.5 Nepal 0.5 Cameroon 0.4 Guatemala 0.4 Mozambique 0.4 Nicaragua 0.4 Sri Lanka 0.4 Tajikistan 0.4 Ghana 0.3 Laos 0.3 Lesotho 0.3
Bolivia 0.2 Congo (Brazzav) 0.2 Cuba 0.2 Gambia 0.2 Guinea-Bissau 0.2 Swaziland 0.2 Turkey 0.2 Algeria 0.1 Armenia 0.1 Benin 0.1 Bhutan 0.1 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0.1 Djibouti 0.1 Ecuador 0.1 El Salvador 0.1 Indonesia 0.1 Iran 0.1 Kyrgyzstan 0.1 Libya 0.1 Paraguay 0.1 Rwanda 0.1 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1 Serbia and Montenegro 0.1 Timor-Leste 0.1 Ukraine 0.1
P E O P L E W H O R E C E I V E D W F P A S S I S T A N C E B Y C O U N T R Y I N 2 0 1 4
The number indicated for each country refers to millions of people
7.3 MILLION 7.3 MILLION
Malnourished children receiving specialized
nutritional support
N U T R I T I O N
3 3
M I L L I O N
PREGNANT WOMEN AND NURSING MOTHERS
RECEIVING ADDITIONAL NUTRITION SUPPORT
COUNTRIES RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV/AIDS
PREVENTION ACTIVITIES
HEALTH CENTRES AND CLINICS RECEIVING
WFP ASSISTANCE
PEOPLE AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS RECEIVING WFP ASSISTANCE
29 29 31,700 31,700
N U T R I T I O N
800,000
800,000
3.2 MILLION 3.2 MILLION
Metric tons of food distributed
F O O D A I D Q U A N T I T I E S
2.2 2.2
MILLION
METRIC TONS
THE AMOUNT OF FOOD PROCURED IN 92 COUNTRIES
THE PERCENTAGE OF FOOD PROCURED IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
METRIC TONS
THE AMOUNT OF FOOD PROCURED IN 92 COUNTRIES
81% 81%
THE PERCENTAGE OF FOOD PROCURED IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
F O O D A I D Q U A N T I T I E S
USS5.38 BILLION USS5.38 BILLION
The value of contributions reached is the highest in WFP history and 27% higher than in 2013. This value reflects the
extraordinary number of major emergencies that WFP responded to during the year.
F U N D I N G
4,362 10 102 112,791 1,183 200 3,858 25,545 175 4,435 139 1,941 1,227 350,066 12,000 20 11,065 3,805 484 11 151 604 68,450 0 248 390 66 189 47,745 371,807 33 34,880 22,990 3,027
2,915 301,194 38 4,843 14 ,634 257 37 8,348 41 399 1,039 21,337 20 31,639 156,548 47 0 37,475 8,029 5,600 334 27 12,136 3,000 6,388 1,000 100 271 88,009 5,898 15 72,165 2,000 500
69,553 578 263 10 110,306 2,380 4,179 30,811 1,778 66,477 269,909 9,553 15 41 5,000 10,294 2,404 220 93,481 85,825 20 179 129 180 100 137,314 29,760 408,835 112,237 5
2,252,677 5
2,723 African Development Bank
Andorra Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belgium Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Burundi Cambodia Canada Central African Rep.
Chile China Colombia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Dem. Rep. Congo Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Estonia Ethiopia European Commission Faroe Islands Finland France Gambia
Gaza/W.Bank Germany Greece Guatemala Guinea Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mexico Monaco Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Norway Oman OPEC Fund for Int'l Dev
Pakistan Panama Peru Portugal Private Donors*
Qatar Republic of Congo Republic of Korea Zambia Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Slovakia Slovenia South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Turkey UN CERF United Arab Emirates United Kingdom UN OTHER FUNDS AND AGENCIES Uruguay USA Venezuela World Bank
Funding sources and total confirmed contributions in 2014 (US$ thousand) F U N D I N G
WFP in 2014: Facts and Figures
P R O J E C T S
39 33 41
57 27
5 39
Emergency operations (EMOPs)
33
Country programmes (CPs)
41
57
Protracted relief and recovery operations (PRROs)
27
Development projects (DEVs)
5
202
TOTAL
PROJECTS
Afghanistan Algeria Armenia Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi Cairo Regional Bureau Cambodia Cameroon Cabo Verde Central African Republic Chad Colombia Congo (Brazzav) Côte d'Ivoire Cuba Dakar Regional Bureau
Dem. Rep. Congo Djibouti DPR Korea Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran Iraq Italy Jordan Kenya
P R O J E C T S
Protracted relief and recovery operations (PRROs)Special
operations (SOs)
Development
projects (DEVs) Preparedness activities Emergency operations
(EMOPs)
Kyrgyzstan Laos Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Nairobi Regional Bureau Nepal Nicaragua Niger Pakistan Palestine Panama
Rwanda San Tome and Principe Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Tunisia Uganda Ukraine
P R O J E C T S
Protracted relief and recovery operations (PRROs)Special
operations (SOs)
Development
projects (DEVs) Preparedness activities Emergency operations
(EMOPs)
17 MILLION 17 MILLION
Schoolchildren receiving meals in school or take-home rations
S C H O O L F E E D I N G
(This figure does not include
1.2 million schoolchildren reached
through Trust Funds)
75,500 75,500
SCHOOLS RECEIVING WFP ASSISTANCE
49% 49%
GIRLS AS A PERCENTAGE OF ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN RECEIVING
WFP ASSISTANCE
S C H O O L F E E D I N G
12.7 MILLION 12.7 MILLION
People receiving WFP food as an incentive to build assets
R E S I L I E N C E B U I L D I N G A C T I V I T I E S
R E S I L I E N C E B U I L D I N G A C T I V I T I E S
328,800 14,130 63,000 328,800
HECTARES OF LAND PROTECTED OR IMPROVED
KILOMETRES OF ROADS AND 123 BRIDGES
CONSTRUCTED OR REPAIRED
GOVERNMENT STAFF TRAINED
HECTARES OF LAND PROTECTED OR IMPROVED
14,130
KILOMETRES OF ROADS AND 123 BRIDGES
CONSTRUCTED OR REPAIRED
63,000
GOVERNMENT STAFF
TRAINED
C A S H A N D V O U C H E R S
8.9 MILLION 8.9 MILLION
People receiving assistance in the form of cash and/or vouchers in
69 projects in 53 countries.
A 13% increase compared to 2013.
M I L L I O N
USS843
VALUE OF CASH AND VOUCHER TRANSFERS
COMPARED TO
US$506 MILLION IN 2013
>90%
>90%
MORE THAN 90 PERCENT
OF CASH AND VOUCHER TRANSFERS WERE PROVIDED WITHIN EMERGENCY
PROGRAMMES AIMED
AT SAVING LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS
M I L L I O N
C A S H A N D V O U C H E R S
USS148 MILLION USS148 MILLION
Income generated for farmers as a result of the P4P project
P U R C H A S E F O R P R O G R E S S
P U R C H A S E F O R P R O G R E S S
370,000 370,000
THE AMOUNT OF FOOD PURCHASED UNDER THE
P4P PROJECT
THE AMOUNT OF FOOD PURCHASED UNDER THE
P4P PROJECT
METRIC TONS
METRIC TONS
U N I T E D N A T I O N S A N D I N T E R N A T I O N A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N P A R T N E R S
WFP’s partnerships seek to:
alleviate hunger through food assistance, nutrition support and social safety nets;
eliminate the root causes of hunger and poverty through long-term support to sustainable agricultural development and rural transformation for
the most vulnerable people.
FAO IFAD ILO
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
IOM UNAIDS UNDP
UNEP UNESCO UNFPA
UN-HABITAT UNHCR
UNICEF
UN-Women WHO
World Bank
(ICRC, IFRC, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
U N I T E D N A T I O N S A N D I N T E R N A T I O N A L O R G A N I Z A T I O N P A R T N E R S
1,122 1,122
NGO PARTNERS
M I L L I O N M I L L I O N
THE AMOUNT OF CASH AND IN-KIND DONATIONS FROM CORPORATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
M I L L I O N
11,367 EMPLOYEES 11,367 EMPLOYEES
of whom 93 percent are based in the field
S T A F F
S T A F F
11,367 41% 87%
11,367
EMPLOYEES WITH CONTRACTS OF ONE YEAR OR LONGER
WOMEN AMONG
INTERNATIONAL RECRUITS AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICERS
LOCALLY RECRUITED EMPLOYEES WITH CONTRACTS
OF ONE YEAR OR LONGER
41%
WOMEN AMONG
INTERNATIONAL RECRUITS AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICERS
87%
LOCALLY RECRUITED
WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide.
In 2014, WFP reached 80 million people with food assistance in 82 countries.
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IN 2015, WFP PLANS TO PROVIDE MORE THAN
17 BILLION RATIONS 78 MILLION PEOPLE
76 COUNTRIES
in to
IN 2015, WFP PLANS TO PROVIDE MORE THAN
17 BILLION RATIONS
78 MILLION PEOPLE 76 COUNTRIES
in to
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