World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP aims to improve the resilience of local communities to cope with shocks, such as natural disasters, through disaster risk mitigation.

WFP supported a project in a remote village to reinforce the riverbanks and protect the villagers' houses from flooding.

WFP's Food for Work programme helped this community to restore a delapidated drainage system

WFP supported, through its disaster mitigation projects, restoration of abandoned drainage and irrigation networks. Copyright: WFP/Vladimir Voronin.

WFP's disaster risk mitigation contributes towards better food security among subsistence farmers by taking measures to prevent disasters or mitigate their devastating

impact on rural infrastructure

WFP, through its Food for Work initiatives, helps to rehabilitate and put back into use numearous neglected irrigation systems, daily run-off ponds and drainage systems across the country

WFP supports projects that protect hundreds of houses, communal buildings and roads from mudflows, landslides and the constant threat of seasonal flooding

 WFP helps rural communities to restore and put back to use key infrastructural facilities such as bridges and roads.

 Food for Work helps people to become food secure and communities to meet their own needs by using WFP food as an incentive and catalyst to improve their lives

WFP distributes food assistance as an incentive to the active participants engaged into the disaster mitigation efforts