WFP’s current emergency operation in DPRK is designed to target the 2.4 million people most at risk of serious damage to their health as a result of food shortages. Working in 85 counties across the country, the operation has three main areas of focus -
• Reduce hunger and under-nutrition among women and children by providing nutrition support to improve dietary diversity;
• Support the Government in reducing hunger and under-nutrition through the local production of fortified food;
• Restore and rebuild livelihoods to enhance food security through food-for-community development projects.
WFP distributes Super Cereals and nutritious biscuits (fortified and blended foods enriched with vitamins and other micronutrients). If funding allows, WFP also seeks to distribute commodities such as pulses and oil to promote a balanced diet. Over 80 percent of the people targeted for assistance are women and children.
Food rations are served as cooked meals through institutions for children (such as orphanages, kindergartens, nurseries, primary and boarding schools) and hospitals. The food is produced in 12 WFP-supported DPRK factories in a unique collaboration through which the DPRK government covers all manpower and running costs, while WFP provides the food commodities, spare parts and packaging materials.