Aid Professionals

The Aid Pros Blog

A collection of news and comment of interest to people working in the world of humanitarian aid.   Subscribe

Egypt Revolution 2.0

With her country under lock-down, and thousands of her Egyptian countrymen protesting on the streets, WFP IT Officer Dalia Mansour was working to ensure her colleagues still had connectivity they needed to continue their work. Then, on January 28, internet and mobile phones stopped working...

Read more & add a comment

The New Paradigm Of Hunger

New World bank figures show 44 million people have been pushed into poverty and hunger as a result of high food prices since June last year. Old drivers of hunger and food insecurity are combining with newer ones to create large populations of vulnerable people, writes StevenWere Omama, a senior policy officer at WFP.

Read more & add a comment

Leveraging Agriculture Through Home Grown School Feeding

Home Grown School Feeding was put forward as a concrete strategy to leverage agriculture for improving nutrition and health during last week's IFPRI conference in New Delhi, India.  WFP's chief of school feeding, Nancy Walters, and Lesley Drake, the Executive Director of the Partnership for Child Development, explain why.

Read more & add a comment

WFP Ambassador Howard G.Buffett Chronicles Human Courage

WFP Ambassador Against Hunger, Howard G. Buffett, has travelled to more than 95 countries and visited WFP operations in at least 15 countries to document the fragility of the human condition. Click here to see how he portrays the enduring and courageous nature of the human spirit. Watch video

Read more & add a comment

Here Comes The Private Sector

In the latest edition of the Food Factor Podcast,  WFP Director of Public Policy and Communications Nancy Roman discusses the growing involvement of business in humanitarian aid and how industry leaders in logistics and nutrition are helping WFP to do its job better. Listen to the podcast

Read more & add a comment

Fighting Malnutrition In Niger

In his latest post about how WFP uses nutritional products in emergency situations, WFP programming officer Guillaume Foliot looks at the supplementary feeding set up in Niger last year to prevent a further deterioration in malnutrition amid drought, poor harvests and high food prices.

Read more & add a comment

Development community must create bigger role for private sector, says USAID chief

The development industry must work in a way that allows it to be replaced by efficient local governments, by civil societies and by a vibrant private sector, said USAID Chief Rajiv Shah this week in a keynote speech at the Center for Global Development in Washington.

Read more & add a comment

Pakistan: Battling Malnutrition Amid Access Challenges

In his ongoing look at how WFP uses nutritional products in emergency situations, WFP programming officer Guillaume Foliot looks at the solutions found in the wake of the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer, when access was a major challenge.

Read more & add a comment

The Right Nutrition – A Key Priority After Haiti Earthquake

A major concern after the devastating earthquake in Haiti was a possible increase in malnutrition levels -- a common consequence of natural disasters in developing countries. WFP’s emergency operation therefore placed a high emphasis on providing the affected population with highly nutritious food.

Read more & add a comment

WFP and the new UN task force plan on food security

The UN task force on food security recently updated its Comprehensive Framework for Action, a document first written in the midst of the 2008 global food crisis. WFP has a key role to play in helping countries achieve the outcomes set out in the updated CFA, says Steven Were Omamo, Deputy Director of Policy Planning and Strategy at WFP headquarters in Rome.

Read more & add a comment