1. What should the role of corporations be in helping the WFP's mission? Explain.

No single organization can tackle today's complex problems of nutrition and nutrition. Therefore,
relationships are more important than ever. The challenge now is to define the roles of the best actors
and to add value to the broader range of possibilities by choosing collaborative strategies, strengthening
accountability, and ensuring collaboration produce results. (WFP Strategic Plan 2014–2017)The World
Food Program (WFP) is a large charitable organization that helps the poor and saves lives, provides
emergency food assistance, and works with communities to improve nutrition and endurance. With a
global community committed to eradicating hunger, food security, and improving nutrition by 2030, one
in nine people still does not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance reside at the heart of
the war to end the cycle of hunger and poverty. WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its
anti-hunger work, its commitment to improving peace in conflict-torn areas, and its role in promoting
war and conflict through hunger as a weapon.

International, large, and large companies can be significant sponsors of the WFP mission. The WFP
supply system requires considerable funding to meet its global goal. Governments, non-governmental
organizations, and the private sector can provide WFP financially with health care, dental care, and
emergency relief products. Big business is not so different from UN agencies or governments: they are
also big offices. Therefore, sensible participation in the charity community will not be possible until CEOs
and boards hear an apparent reason for doing so. One way to get there is for firms to develop their
strategies for helping people. Such a strategy can help define the criteria for identifying situations that
directly affect a particular organization (employees, suppliers, or customers) and thus help ensure that
personal participation is prioritized. It can also help focus efforts on specific forces—technologies,
knowledge, or supply networks—that will provide unique value to the humanitarian system. Of course,
large firms will not solve every problem. However, a defined approach can help them move from
individual decisions to further development and community involvement in disaster relief. This
partnership is needed to change the humanitarian sector into an ecosystem that innovates, drives data,
and focuses on results.

Companies involved in transportation activities may provide transportation volunteers to WFP to

deliver goods and personal affairs. On any given day, WFP has 5,600 vehicles, 30 ships, and nearly 100
aircraft on the go, offering food and other assistance to people in need. These numbers are rooted in
WFP's unparalleled reputation as an emergency responder, which makes work faster on the scale in
much-needed settings. Delivering services only when necessary can significantly reduce travel, shipping,
and purchase costs while helping the local economy recover by allowing people the dignity of self-
determination. And because of the needs of themselves and their families, trying to find a way to
distribute money in a post-disaster area is difficult. As a result, WFP often comes first in disasters,
providing food aid to victims of war, civil strife, drought, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, crop failures,
and natural disasters. Then, as the emergency disappears, WFP helps communities restore rehabilitated
lives and livelihoods. We also want to make people and communities more resilient in the long run by
focusing on our humanitarian response from a development perspective.
 The UN World Food Program has an existing website. However, almost all humanitarian assistance is
provided with items (tents, medical supplies, food). Still, very few (perhaps 3% in most cases) reach
people in cash, vouchers, or cash—inefficiency in a long-term unfunded business. Where the mobile
bank existed before the emergency, it is much easier to use the existing system to transfer money
quickly into the hands of the people who need it. For example, when Ebola invaded West Africa and
traditional methods for paying health workers collapsed, the critical response was to use a portfolio to
pay their salaries to continue working while supporting their families. Any interested business,
organization, or financially sound organization can be a donor. Anyone can help WFP. Be a host and start
budgeting for the benefit of the world. Of course, telecommunications and payment businesses also play
an essential role here. But all-important organizations can address this by ensuring that their employees,
suppliers, and people who work for their suppliers are paid through electronic payment networks. Also,
getting people involved in informal finance programs before a disaster can be a significant factor in their
success, and businesses have a good chance of pushing for change.

The United Nations (WFP) is one of the first agencies to be involved in world wars, natural disasters,
epidemics, and other catastrophes. They provide life-saving support to people at risk of starvation and
direct community response to disaster relief efforts worldwide. Organizations involved in manufacturing
enterprises that have a basic need for agricultural products in bulk may consider a partnership with
WFP. Companies with highly skilled workers can assist WFP in educating smallholder farmers to improve
productivity, use modern agricultural technology, and agree to purchase their agricultural products at a
reasonable price. By 2020, WFP will have distributed 4.2 million tons of food and about US $2.1 billion in
cash and vouchers. Purchasing food as close to home as possible

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