Editing World Food Programme (section)

== Reviews ==

=== Recognition and awards ===
WFP won the [[2020 Nobel Peace Prize]] for its "efforts for combating hunger", its "contribution to creating peace in conflicted-affected areas", and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of [[Food security#Politics|food as a weapon of war and conflict]].<ref>{{cite web |date=9 October 2020 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2020/press-release/ |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=9 October 2020 |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009091529/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2020/press-release/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/uns-world-food-programme-wins-nobel-peace-prize |first1=Luke |last1=Harding |title=UN's World Food Programme wins Nobel peace prize|date=9 October 2020|website=The Guardian|access-date=9 October 2020|archive-date=9 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009101202/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/uns-world-food-programme-wins-nobel-peace-prize|url-status=live}}</ref> Receiving the award, executive David Beasley called for billionaires to "step up" and help source the US$5 billion WFP needs to save 30 million people from famine.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McNamara |first1=Audrey |title=U.N. World Food Program director calls on billionaires to "step up" after Nobel Peace Prize win |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-world-food-program-director-billionaires-to-step-up-nobel-peace-prize-award/ |access-date=11 January 2021 |work=CBS News |date=10 October 2020}}</ref>

===Challenges===

In 2018, the [[Center for Global Development]] ranked WFP last in a study of 40 aid programmes, based on indicators grouped into four themes: maximising efficiency, fostering institutions, reducing burdens, and transparency and learning. These indicators relate to aid effectiveness principles developed at the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), and the Busan Partnership Agreement (2011).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-do-you-measure-aid-quality-and-who-ranks-highest |first1= Ian |last1=Mitchell |first2=Caitlin |last2=McKee |title=How Do You Measure Aid Quality and Who Ranks Highest?|date=15 November 2018|website=Center for Global Development|access-date=11 October 2020}}</ref>

There is wide general debate on the [[Aid#Criticism|net effectiveness of aid]], including unintended consequences such as increasing the duration of conflicts and increasing corruption. WFP faces difficult decisions in working with some regimes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-04-10 |title=Yemen: World Food Programme to cut aid by half in Houthi-controlled areas |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52239645 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418061559/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-52239645 |archive-date= Apr 18, 2023 }}</ref>

Some surveys have shown internal culture problems at WFP, including sexual harassment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/08/world-food-program-un-survey-finds-abuse-discrimination/ |url-access=subscription |website=Foreign Policy  |title=Popular U.N. Food Agency Roiled by Internal Problems, Survey Finds|first=Colum|last=Lynch|date=8 October 2019 |access-date=9 October 2020|archive-date=25 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425155551/https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/08/world-food-program-un-survey-finds-abuse-discrimination/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/25/senior-un-figures-under-investigation-over-alleged-sexual-harassment|title=Senior UN figures under investigation over alleged sexual harassment|date=25 January 2018|website=The Guardian |first1=Rebecca |last1=Ratcliffe |access-date=9 October 2020|archive-date=24 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324100551/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/25/senior-un-figures-under-investigation-over-alleged-sexual-harassment|url-status=live}}</ref>