The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provides and ensures food security in emergency and post-emergency situations [1]. Established in 1962, WFP works with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to promote a world in which every man, woman, and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life [2].

Because women often have unequal access to resources, education and income, and because they participate less in decision-making, an estimated 60 percent of the world’s chronically hungry people are women and girls [3]. WFP claims that it attempts to address this problem by promoting women’s empowerment [4]. Thus, the agency responds to issues such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic and gender-based violence through gender mainstreaming in the agency’s food distribution programs, field operations, social programs and development of safe spaces for women and girls.

Source: World Food Programme