WFP Supply Chain

Happy #WorldHumanitarianDay to all the humanitarian superheroes out there! 🚚📦🌾🚁🛶 Thank you for risking your lives, leaving your homes, and working around the clock to make a difference and deliver hope for a better future, #NoMatterWhat. #WHD #Humanitarian #Logistics #UN #UnitedNations World Food Programme.

In recent years, Burundi has been battered by weather extremes: drought, floods, and hailstorms have led to displacement, destroyed homes, shattered livelihoods, and increased food insecurity. Recent floods affected over 300,000 people and damaged the farmland. In response, the World Food Programme is building sustainable food systems by sourcing locally, supporting smallholder farmers through training in crop handling and storage, and linking them to school canteens 👨🏾🌾🌿📚 Last year, besides providing pre-emptive cash transfers, WFP supported 24,000 farmers, facilitated the production of 3,400 mt of locally fortified flour, and provided 700,000 children in Burundi’s most food-insecure regions with nutritious school meals.

Filling gaps or augmenting existing capacity, inflatable cold rooms and reefer containers are often game changer in field operations, especially in remote areas. In Mombasa, #Kenya, our Temperature Sensitive Logistics team, from the World Food Programme-managed United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD), trained six staff from Somalia’s Ministry of Health and ten WFP staff from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Headquarters on installing, operating and dismantling equipment and quality management system for temperature-sensitive supplies, including pharmaceuticals and specialized food.   Our partners and staff are now better prepared for future operations requiring temperature-controlled logistics. #storing #supplychain #logistics #UN

#Egypt stands as the top producer of dates worldwide 🌍 The World Food Programme`s Supply Chain supports Egypt’s food systems by distributing locally sourced date bars to schools and assuring the highest food quality standards. Each date bar provides children with 25% of their daily caloric needs along with essential vitamins and minerals, giving a nutritious start to their day in over 3,200 community schools. Discover how #WFP is changing lives in Egypt on #Instagram: @WFP_Egypt

🚨 #HurricaneBeryl We are expanding our support in #Grenada, as our team in the #Caribbean has repositioned logistical equipment from Barbados to support transporting relief items to affected families in Carriacou and Petite Martinique. #Emergency #Humanitarian #SupplyChain

📦 Improved food storage & management 🚛 Extended food delivery to hard-to-reach areas 🚨 Strengthened response to Sudan Emergency Our team in Cameroon is working hard to deliver faster, more efficient food assistance to those in need, not only in the country but also in Chad & CAR.

Do you want to help us ensure the safety and quality of food, the World Food Programme is looking for a #FoodTechnologist to join our team in #Djibouti. 👉🏽If you are eager to join our fight against hunger, apply before July 22: https://lnkd.in/dFG4ykv7 #Vacancy #UNjobs #WFPcareers

Since #HurricaneByerl hit the eastern #Caribbean last week, our team has been on the ground leading the emergency response and logistics coordination, assisting the governments and humanitarian community with delivering food and relief items to the affected population. Yesterday, we organised with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) a vessel packed with essential relief items for Grenada and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines that were devastated by the hurricane. On board are enough ready-to-eat food kits to feed 7,500 people for 10 days, plastic sheeting, tents, water purifiers, health items & much more on behalf of PAHO Procurement and Supply Management, UNICEF, IOM - UN Migration & CDEMA. #emergency #logistics #humanitarianaid #UN

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As #HurricaneBeryl continues it's path of destruction across the Caribbean, response efforts are in full swing! The availability of comprehensive logistics capacity assessments are absolutely crucial. Assessing port, airport capacities, road networks, storage, handling procedures, labor rates, local transport, and more ensures an effective operational response. Thanks to EU in Emergencies WFP was able to update Logistics Capacity Assessments in May for Saint Vincent & the Grenadines and Jamaica! Thank you for your support! Oyintare Kalama Melissa Sanchez Kirsch Alvaro De Vicente Alessandra Piccolo