From Development Projects to Emergency Operations: Tipping Points in the WFP’s Transformation

D. John Shaw

Chapter 2 in The World’s Largest Humanitarian Agency, 2011, pp 52-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In little more than a decade, the WFP was transformed from being a major UN development programme to the world’s largest humanitarian agency. The transformation was not easy, partly because of the speed and scale by which events occurred that forced the change of direction (Margous, 2002). During its first decade of operations (1963–72), the WFP had invested less than 10 per cent of its resources in emergencies. In 1977, emergencies accounted for almost one- quarter of WFP commitments. That shift quickened and intensified until, by 2006, over 80 per cent of WFP food aid went to emergency relief (Figure 2.1). At the same time, there was a significant shift from assistance to emergencies caused by natural disasters and crop failures caused by drought, pests and diseases to relief for refugees and displaced persons, the victims of disasters caused by conflict, and to a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: Emergency Operation; Executive Director; Donor Country; Displace Person; World Food Programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230316713_2

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