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World Food Program USA Annual Report 2011 World Food Program USA Annual Report 2011 1 World Food Program USA CONTENTS (WFP USA) works to solve global hunger, building a world where everyone has the food and 2 A Message from nutrition needed to lead healthy, World Food Program USA productive lives. 4 2011 Year at a Glance The United Nations World Food 6 WFP in Action: Horn of Africa Programme (WFP) works in over 75 countries, saving lives in 8 WFP in Action: Pakistan, Japan and Haiti emergencies, providing school meals to hungry children, improving 9 How WFP Responds to Emergencies nutrition of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives 10 How WFP Works to Solve Hunger and helping build the self-reliance of people and communities. 12 Investing in Innovative Solutions WFP USA works together with WFP 14 Mobilizing Partners Against Hunger to solve hunger globally through 18 George McGovern Leadership Award fundraising, advocacy and education in the United States. 19 Financials 20 Map: Where We Work 23 Thank You to Our Donors 24 Together We Can End Hunger 2 1 a message from world food program usa At WFP USA in Washington D.C., The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian we are dedicated agency fighting hunger in the world today. Here at WFP USA in Washington to marshaling D.C., we are dedicated to marshaling American leadership to end global hunger. American leadership We do this by engaging U.S. individuals and organizations, shaping public policy, and generating resources for life-saving WFP programs. to end global hunger. When crises hit this year in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere, WFP was poised to respond with emergency food relief—and WFP USA was there to support those efforts by channeling the generosity of U.S. donors. American leadership in the fight against hunger meant one thing: more lives were saved, more children were fed, and communities were able to grow and thrive. We were able to witness firsthand the human impact of WFP programs during our visit this year to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where WFP delivered emergency food aid to refugees fleeing drought, famine and conflict in Somalia and other parts of the region. In the Horn of Africa, a cup of nutritious food has meant the difference between life and death for many families. Around the world, WFP assistance has been changing lives and empowering millions. In Washington, we activated critical American support for global hunger programs. This year, we were pleased to present the 2011 George McGovern Leadership Award to two crusaders against hunger: Bill Gates and Howard G. Buffett. They provided vital support through their foundations to pilot and scale up Purchase 4 Progress (P4P), an innovative program that uses the purchasing power of WFP to buy food locally from small scale farmers, helping them break the cycle of hunger and poverty and become participants in agricultural markets. Working together, we are bringing WFP USA to the next level of leadership in the fight against global hunger. With your help, we are educating members of Congress, advocating for sufficient funding, and cultivating American support to address the immediate needs and underlying causes of hunger worldwide. We are grateful to all our supporters for helping us lead the way. Richard Leach, Hunter Biden, President and CEO Chairman, Board of Directors 2 3 2011 YEAR AT A GLANCE more than nearly 15 million internally 83 million women displaced people and children served. and 2.6 million refugees reached WFP USA granted more than over $26 million 23 million children to WFP that benefited from school feeding In 2011, WFP a global presence lives changed in 2011 delivered food While WFP is well-known as a first responder in times This year, WFP USA invested the donations of U.S. of crisis, the agency is working on the ground every day supporters in WFP programs that are helping to build a assistance to nearly to increase the long-term food security of populations stronger future by nourishing families and communities 100 million people vulnerable to hunger across the planet. This includes worldwide. In 2011, WFP USA granted over $26 million in 75 countries. people in areas prone to drought, famine and natural to WFP. These resources contributed to WFP feeding nearly disaster. It includes innocent families caught in the 100 million people in 75 countries around the world. crossfire of political conflict and refugees forced to flee The vast majority of those served—nearly 83 million— their homes under life-threatening conditions. It were women and children. Hunger not only endangers includes the millions of women and children who often the health and survival of a population, it also stunts the bear the brunt of extreme poverty. development of children, weakens communities and perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Safety net programs, including the more than 23 million children that benefited humanitarian assistance from school feeding this year, help to break that cycle. When drought struck the conflict-affected Horn of Africa in 2011, WFP was there to provide life-saving aid to Throughout the year, WFP USA worked to energize the millions. When another disastrous monsoon season flooded American public to take action to end global hunger. Pakistan, its impact was mitigated by the WFP presence On Capitol Hill, WFP USA advocacy efforts kept legislators already on the ground. When a deadly tsumani hit Japan, informed of the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of WFP stepped up to coordinate emergency logistics. This Africa and mobilized support to maintain U.S. government year, WFP reached millions of people around the world funding for global hunger relief in a challenging fiscal whose lives were severely affected by emergencies, climate. American businesses, organizations and individuals including more than 15 million internally displaced people responded generously to WFP USA’s appeal to help solve and 2.6 million refugees who crossed borders to flee hunger and save lives. conflict, famine and drought in their home countries. 4 5 WFP IN ACTION Making a Difference. horn of africa WFP scaled up assistance through 1. Ethiopia: WFP reached 3.5 million A major humanitarian crisis developed food distribution points across people with emergency food in the Horn of Africa throughout the the Horn and airlifted rations into distributions and mother-child health Cargill teamed up latter half of 2011, affecting more areas made inaccessible by poor and nutrition programs. WFP reached with WFP USA to than 13 million people. Consecutive security. WFP targeted vulnerable another 280,000 people in several seasons of drought in the region left groups, including young children, large refugee camps, where alarming bring more than millions requiring food assistance, pregnant and breastfeeding malnutrition rates have stabilized and 22 million pounds while many more fled conflicts in mothers, the elderly, people with begun to decline. of rice—enough to Somalia and South Sudan. The influx disabilities, displaced persons and of refugees into Ethiopia and Kenya refugees, by targeting clinics, 2. Kenya: WFP reached 2 million feed nearly one increased the need for large-scale schools, refugee camps and informal people in the country’s arid regions million people for distributions of food aid. In July 2011, refugee settlements in the region. with food and cash assistance. WFP one month—to WFP declared an emergency in the provided emergency relief and Horn of Africa, elevating the crisis In addition to emergency relief, nutritional support to an additional people suffering to the highest level of action, and WFP programs in the Horn of Africa 556,000 refugees living in refugee from hunger and indicating grave concern about the have also been working to increase camps, including Dadaab, where new possibility of widespread loss of life. the population’s long-term food arrivals poured in from Somalia. malnutrition in the Since beginning emergency operations security and ability to weather crisis Horn of Africa. in the region, WFP has reached over conditions. Prior to the onset of 3. Somalia: WFP reached 1.3 million Cargill sourced the 8.5 million people with desperately the current crisis, the agency began people in famine and conflict-affected needed food relief. pre-positioning food stocks as Somalia through emergency relief and grain and managed hunger indicators in the area began special airlifted assistance. WFP is ocean transportation to rise. WFP’s presence on the also working with Somali leaders on ground has been working to build long-term planning and peace building. and logistics. resiliency in these countries. 4. Uganda and 5. Djibouti: WFP reached 703,000 people in Uganda and 130,000 people in Djibouti. 6 7 HOW WFP When RESPONDS TO disaster EMERGENCIES strikes pakistan japan haiti In Pakistan, monsoon rains during the Japan was hit with a catastrophic In Haiti, which has struggled to summer of 2010 caused historic flood disaster in March 2011, as a colossal rebuild from the devastating levels throughout Pakistan, creating earthquake triggered a tsunami earthquake of 2010, WFP has provided widespread damage and food and nuclear crisis along its northeast urgently-needed assistance in the insecurity. Over the last year, WFP coast that left nearly half a million form of school meals, nutritional WITHIN 24 HOURS moved millions of victims from people homeless. Although Japan is programs, food and cash for work. emergency to recovery. This year, a donor country well-equipped to ! additional flooding in Pakistan made deal with natural disasters, the scale International that support all the more vital. Since of the emergency led the Japanese Data alert and maps mid-September of 2011, another government to request WFP’s monsoon season once again created assistance and expertise as the UN’s Emergency heavy flooding in Pakistan.
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