Projects

Project: Reducing food and income insecurity among vulnerable households in Malawi through climate services and integrated risk management Beneficiary: World Food Programme  Amount: 2.500.000 euro Duration: 2017-2019 Flanders supports the World Food Programme (WFP) in protecting farmers in Malawi against the increasing climate challenges. Recent months WFP has paid food and / or cash transfers to 5.8 million Malawians who can not meet their food needs as a result of the drought by the weather phenomenon El Niño. Now, El Niño is over, La Niña will be introduced.

Project: food aid for Syrian refugees Beneficiary: World Food Programme Duration: 2014 Budget: 110.000 euro 3 million Syrian refugees are registered in neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. The World Food programme helps these refugess through a system of food credits (electronic coupons) so they can buy local food.

Project: ‘Strengthening Farmer Organisations and Rural Structured Trade Mechanisms in Malawi’ Beneficiary: World Food Programme Duration: 2014-2018 Budget: 2.999.140,62€ The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) join forces to implement this project. In 2009 the WFP launched the Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme to help smallholder farmers and their organisations gain access to the WFP market by linking WFP’s demand for basic food to the supply of smallholder farmers.

Summary: General framework agreement Flanders - United Nations World Food Programme    Signed: 05/12/2011 pdf file982_Ondertekende akte in het Engels.pdf (267 KB)

Duration: 2009 Budget: 980.000 The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) wants to eradicate hunger worldwide. WFP tries to accomplish this by creating country programmes. These programmes are designed to increase the production capacity of small farmers and merchants. Additionally, the augmentation of the merchants’ commercial reflex is also aimed at. Duration and budget For two years, Flanders supported the WFP’s Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme in Mozambique.

Duration: 2012-2014 Budget: 3.000.000 In 2011, the Government of Flanders decided to extend the aid to the World Food Programme (WFP) structurally.  Since 2008, the Government of Flanders has already granted specific support to the country programmes of WFP in Malawi and Mozambique. The current aid covers the period from 2012 to 2014. Duration and budget The contribution for the period 2012 to 2014 amounts to three million euros. Problem definition Between 2007 and 2009, the number of undernourished people rose sharply, reaching the sad peak of more than one billion people in 2009.

Project: emergency aid for food crisis in Malawi  Beneficiary: World Food Programme Amount: 208.149 euro Duration: 2015 - 2016  In  Malawi an estimated 2.8 million people are threated by a food shortage will be  through the combination of floods and severe drought caused by a severe El Niño, a climate phenomenon that is caused by an abnormal warming of the seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific.  Together with the international community, the Malawian government addresses this situation with a national action plan.