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UN Agencies in Kampala

Agency Name: World Food Programme

Contacts:

WFP
Clement Hill Road, Plot 17-19,
Kampala, Uganda
P.O. Box 7159,
Kampala, Uganda

Phone: (256-31) 2420000
Fax: (256-41) 250485
E-mail: WFP.Kampala@wfp.org

Agency Representative: Country Director
Tesema   Negash

Website Address : Agency's Website


Mission Statement: The WFP mission is to provide:
Food for life to sustain victims of man-made natural disasters.
Food for growth to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives

Food for work to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labour-intensive works Programmes

The WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system. The policies governing the use of the WFP food aid must be oriented towards the objective of eradicating hunger and poverty. The ultimate objective of food aid should be the elimination of the need for food aid.

Targeted interventions are needed to help to improve the lives of the poorest people who, either permanently or during crisis periods, are unable to produce enough food or do not have the resources to otherwise obtain the food that they and their households require for active and healthy lives.

Agency Activities:

WFP supports the National Food Strategy through its Protracted Relief Recovery Operation 10121.1, which targets drought-affected people, refugees and nearly 1.5 million internally displaced people living in cramped camps to the north of the country. The programme, which runs until 2008, also assists displaced people when they return to their farms.

In addition, under a 2006-2010 country programme (10426.0), WFP supports the Uganda government's poverty eradication efforts by targeting areas assessed as Uganda's poorest and most food insecure – the North and Northeast.

Agency Coverage: Uganda Sub Offices: Arua, Fort Portal/Bundibugyo, Gulu, Kotido, Kabale, Lira, Mbarara, Moroto, Pakelle, Soroti, Tororo, Pader, Kitgum, Nalukolongo Warehouse