Innovation and digital transformation
- 9 million
- people benefited from innovations supported by the WFP Innovation Accelerator in 2021
- 161 million-plus
- meals have been shared by more than 9.5 million smartphone users via WFP’s ShareTheMeal app
- 2 million-plus
- people can be fed for one year due to cost savings resulting from WFP’s data-driven platforms.
Delivering decades of innovative humanitarian response has shaped the World Food Programme (WFP) and its collective mindset, cultivating the persistence, ingenuity and problem-solving that are now driving its digital transformation.
With innovation and technology, WFP speeds up emergency response, scales up assistance and brings empowerment and choice to the lives of people in need. In the humanitarian sphere, money saved can so often mean lives saved.
This is what innovation and digital transformation look like to WFP:
- The power to monitor the food security of vulnerable, hard-to-reach communities in real time, even from thousands of miles away
- Giving choice and agency to the people WFP serves by supporting them through secure digital-finance tools
- Providing a record amount of assistance to people in need, regardless of obstacles in our supply chain, through the power of data
- Growing food anywhere through locally adaptable and affordable hydroponic solutions, using 75 percent less space and up to 90 percent less water
- Forecasting humanitarian needs more accurately than ever before to ensure faster, more targeted assistance
- Providing digital training to young refugees and other youth at risk – bridging their way out of hunger and poverty towards a future with employment
- Deploying drones to carry out aerial remote sensing to assess post-disaster damage
- Outfitting amphibious all-terrain vehicles with self-driving, robotic engineering, so that WFP can deliver assistance to even the most dangerous last mile.