Location: RomeWFP welcomes the continuing support of the Federal Government of Germany with new contributions totalling €22.55 million from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
WFP’s new Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, and Ambassador Hans-Heinrich Wrede, Germany’s Permanent Representative, signed a contract in Rome today.
The contributions will go towards relief and recovery operations as well as to development projects, thus underlining Germany’s continuing support to both fields of work under WFP’s dual mandate.
Relief operationsGermany is providing WFP with €11.05 million for protracted relief and recovery operations of which the biggest contribution (€2 million) goes to WFP’s largest programme in Sudan – especially Darfur.
The German Government also supports other important WFP operations, e.g. in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Somalia, as well as in Cambodia and North Korea. With contributions towards WFP operations in Angola and Myanmar, Germany is also supporting some of the so-called “forgotten crises”.
WFP will receive another €11.5 million for its development programmes.
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This includes WFP support for school feeding and education and training for women and girls. WFP also advises governments on national systems for food security.
These multilateral contributions enable WFP to react flexibly to particular needs.
All German contributions are in cash, which allows WFP to purchase food quickly and efficiently, preferably at local or regional markets. Consequently local economies benefit while much-needed food quickly reaches those people who are suffering.
The Federal Government of Germany is among WFP’s top ten donors; alongside other nations, Germany assists WFP in reaching about 90 million hungry people in more than 80 countries each year.
Contact us
Ralf Suedhoff
WFP/Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 20614912
Cell. +49 (0)160 9491 2547
ralf.suedhoff@wfp.org
Gregory Barrow
WFP/London
Tel. +44-20-72409001
Cell. +44-7968-008474
gregory.barrow@wfp.org
Christiane Berthiaume
WFP/Geneva
Tel.
+41-22-9178564
Cell. +41-792857304
christiane.berthiaume
@wfp.org
Cécile Sportis
WFP/Paris
Tel. +33-1-70385330
Cell. +33-6161-68266
cecile.sportis@wfp.org
Jennifer Parmelee
WFP/Washington
Tel.
+1-202-6530010
Ext. 1149
Mob. +1-202-4223383
jennifer.parmelee
@wfp.org
Bettina Luescher
WFP/New York
Tel. +1-212-9635196
Cell. +1-646-8241112
luescher@un.org
