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Mastercard: Mastercard and WFP are helping communities around the world take important steps towards breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty for future generations. Created in 2012, the partnership includes cause marketing campaigns and other activities that generate financial support for WFP’s operations, as well as expertise-sharing to advance WFP’s work and support beneficiaries while achieving “commercially sustainable social impact” for Mastercard.
dsm-firmenich: dsm-firmenich, a leader in the health, nutrition, and beauty space, is working with WFP to improve nutrition, fight 'hidden hunger' caused by micronutrient deficiencies, and strengthen resilience by increasing access to, demand for, and consumption of nutritious foods.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been a WFP partner since 2014 and provides critical resources to help address the needs of hungry and vulnerable populations. The Church also supports WFP’s school meals and smallholder farmer programs and projects focusing on resilience building.
Palantir: Palantir supports WFP operations by strengthening data-informed decision-making and helping address critical data integration challenges.

Foundations

WFP’s partnerships with leading philanthropic organizations are critical in supporting our efforts to feed the hungry while enhancing organizational capacity and furthering development of WFP’s strategic initiatives. Collaboration with foundations enables WFP to implement innovative programming that better serves communities in urgent need, while also providing long-term solutions to hunger and poverty that deliver for the vulnerable.

The Mastercard Foundation is partnering with WFP to support young people across eight African countries through enterprise capacity building, access to markets and finance, and skills development, fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. Together, we are helping African youth – particularly women – launch enterprises, secure sustainable employment, and strengthen agrifood systems. By the end of 2024, the partnership had reached 380,000 young people, 58 percent women – unlocking potential and opportunity across agricultural value chains.

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WFP tackles urgent issues that impede food security throughout the developing world, such as Women’s Economic Empowerment, Digital Financial Inclusion and Large-Scale Food Fortification. Projects have also focused on increasing the amount of purchases WFP makes from smallholder farmers and supporting WFP’s Food Security Analysis Service to help countries comprehensively assess and respond to food insecurity.

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has helped WFP prevent stunting through its “Right Foods at the Right Time—Improving Nutrition of Children under 2,” initiative. Together, CIFF and WFP have reached 42,000 children under two years of age, along with 57,000 pregnant and nursing women in Malawi. WFP and CIFF are now working on maternal and child nutrition with a focus on Balanced Energy-Protein (BEP) supplements.

The Rockefeller Foundation has supported WFP in restructuring its natural disaster assistance programme, which has evolved from an ad-hoc solution to a global risk-management system with a particular focus on helping people cope with climate-related food crises in Africa. WFP and the Foundation are now working together to leverage the power of institutional procurement to improve diets through school feeding.

Impact investing

SMEs in Africa face a US$331 billion financing gap due to limited access to affordable credit and local currency financing. WFP is leveraging its unique strengths to address this challenge: our deep field presence, supply chain expertise, and strong relationships with stakeholders across food systems.

In 2024, WFP sourced 59 percent of its food locally, supporting SMEs along critical food value chains. WFP is now leveraging its trusted relationships with SMEs in fragile contexts to strengthen their capacity and prepare them for investment. To scale this approach, WFP is working with investors to establish World Food Invest: an independent fund managed by an experienced fund manager. WFP will continue to use its local footprint to identify and present high-potential SMEs in fragile contexts to the fund for investment. Download the factsheet to learn more.

Corporate partners

WFP’s partnerships with leading companies and corporates are vital in driving innovation and expanding our ability to deliver life-saving assistance. By leveraging the technical expertise, resources, and networks of the private sector, these collaborations help WFP strengthen supply chains, improve nutrition, enhance sustainability, and develop solutions that address both immediate needs and long-term challenges. Working together with corporate partners enables WFP to implement impactful initiatives that support communities in need today while building resilience for the future.

Balenciaga

BASF Stiftung

BCG

Cainiao

Careem

Cargill

Carrier Global Corporation

Chalhoub Group

Choithrams International Foundation

CMA CGM

CMA CGM Foundation

Earth Group

Hyundai Motor Company