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World Food Programme (WFP)
- Organization type:UN & International Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.wfp.org
- Address: Via Cesare Giulio Viola 68/70
- Postal Code: 00148
- City: Rome
- Country: Italy
- Telephone: +39 0665132000
- Fax: +39 665132840
- Email: wfpinfo@wfp.org
- Head of the organization: Ertharin Cousin
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
WFP is the specialized food assistance organization of the United Nations, and it is the largest humanitarian organization focusing on food security worldwide.
- Le Senegal est pionnier d'un project Panafricain de gestion des risques et de reduction de la dependence sur l'aide exterieure
14 Jul 2012 - Senegal: The government is pionneering a Panafrican risk pool for disaster risk management
13 Jul 2012 - Ethiopia – An African leader in disaster risk management
3 Jul 2012 - Ethiopian village recognized at Rio+20 for innovative hunger solution
21 Jun 2012 - Opinion: Food security must be on the table at Rio+20
20 Jun 2012 - WFP: Urgent call for timely action in drought-hit Sahel
15 Feb 2012 - WFP: Greater resilience of threatened population in Horn of Africa
15 Jul 2011 - Africa: Stepping up to the Horn
8 Jul 2011 - WFP: New report shows how climate data can help disaster risk manager
22 Jun 2011 - Climate information crucial to help reduce risk and limit disaster damage
21 Jun 2011 - Swiss Re joins WFP and Oxfam America in community disaster risk reduction initiative
10 Jun 2011 - WFP launches redesigned Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWS)
16 Mar 2011 - Latest tsunami data on WFP-run emergency website
11 Mar 2011 - WFP: New hazards calendar wins converts
19 Jan 2011 - Climate change: A fact of life for the world's hungry
6 Dec 2010 - Bangladeshi woman builds new life on higher ground
4 Mar 2009 - UN agencies join forces to bring weather insurance to rural poor people
17 Nov 2008
Statements & Presentations
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- Tercera sesión de la plataforma regional para la reducción de riesgos de desastres: Pronunciamiento del Programa Mundial de Alimentos2012, WFP
- Statement by Ms. Josette Sheeran Executive Director United Nations World Food Programme, 8 March 20102010, WFP
- World Food Programme: Statement made at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2009)2009, WFP
- Country document for Bolivia, 2012 / Documento de país DIPECHO, Bolivia 2012
2012 - Country document for Peru, 2012 / Documento de país DIPECHO, Perú 2012
2012 - R4 Rural Resilience Initiative: partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate
2012 - Building resilience: Bridging food security, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
2011 - Weather index-based insurance in agricultural development: a technical guide
2011 - An introduction to towards a safer world - practical approaches to advance disaster preparedness
2011 - Preparedness: saves time, money and lives
2011 - Managing weather risk for agricultural development and disaster risk reduction
2011 - Efficiency of emergency response and the transition to recovery and long-term development: lessons learned
2011 - Seasonal and hazards calendar
2011 - Cash and food for work
2011 - WFP and climate change: a review of ongoing experience and recommendations for action
2010 - Building resilence to climate change: root crop and fishery production
2010 - Revolution: from food aid to food assistance - Innovations in overcoming hunger
2010 - Revolution: from food aid to food assistance - Innovations in overcoming hunger
2010 - Hunger and climate change
2010 - The potential for scale and sustainability in weather index insurance: for agricultural and rural livlihoods
2010 - Facts for life
2010 - Climate change: a humanitarian challenge for the 21st Century
2010 - Climate change: enabling people to adapt for the future
2010 - Climate change and hunger
2009 - WFP policy on disaster risk reduction
2009 - Consolidated framework of WFP policies
2008 - Assistance to food-insecure people suffering from the effects of natural disasters and HIV/AIDS
2008 - Building resilience as climate changes
2008 - An update on WFP interventions in disaster preparedness and mitigation
2007 - Lessons from 30 years: a brief history of WFP in Bangladesh
2006 - Rural Bangladesh: socio-economic profiles of WFP operational areas and beneficiaries
2006
- Managing disaster risks and extreme events in the context of climate change - A COP 18 side event
06 Dec 2012 - International Day for Disaster Reduction celebration in Ethiopia
03-12 Oct 2012 - Regional conference on capacity development for integrating disaster risk reduction in urban settings in Africa
10-11 Sep 2012 - 4th Agriculture and rural development day- at Rio +20
18 Jun 2012 - COP 17 side event: Disaster risk and people’s resilience in Africa
05 Dec 2011 - Africa Adaptation Programme: supporting integrated and comprehensive approaches to climate change adaptation in africa
01 Oct 2009 - Flooding and cyclones preparedness workshop for SADC countries
13-15 Oct 2008
- Field monitor assistant (climate change adaptation, DPR)
11 Oct 2012 - National officer
29 Jul 2011 - Nutrition officer P3
25 May 2011 - Consultant (climate change)
2 Mar 2011 - Senior policy officer (climate change) P-5
20 Jul 2009 - Policy officer - weather risk management P3
7 Oct 2008
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Working Areas
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- Community-based DRR
- Vulnerable Populations
- Information Management
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Health & Health Facilities
- Complex Emergency
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Disaster Risk Management
- Environment
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Water
- Education & School Safety
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Economics of DRR
- Capacity Development
- Early Warning
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Recovery
- GIS & Mapping
- Hazards
- Flood
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- Cyclone
- Drought
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