WFP will continue to play a major and significant role in providing transport and logistics expertise and assistance to ensure rapid and efficient delivery of humanitarian aid. It will make all necessary efforts to avoid negative effects on local food production, consumption patterns and dependency on food aid. WFP will focus on those aspects of development where food-based interventions are most useful. In carrying out its mandate, WFP will concentrate on what it is best suited to do with the resources available as cost-effectively as possible. In both cases the overall aim is to build self-reliance. Conversely, emergency assistance will be used to the extent possible to serve both relief and development purposes. WFP will give priority to supporting disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation and post-disaster rehabilitation activities as part of development programmes. WFP is well placed to play a major role in the continuum from emergency relief to development. In the third, it uses poor people's most abundant resource, their own labour, to create employment and income and to build the infrastructure necessary for sustained development. In the second case, food aid is a pre-investment in human resources. To the extent possible, the provision of relief food aid will be coordinated with the relief assistance provided by other humanitarian organizations. It will be used in a way that is as developmental as possible, consistent with saving lives. In the first case, food aid is essential for social and humanitarian protection. To help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labour-intensive works programmes.To improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives and.To save lives in refugee and other emergency situations.The core policies and strategies that govern WFP activities are to provide food aid: Promote world food security in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations and FAO.Meet refugee and other emergency food needs, and the associated logistics support and.Use food aid to support economic and social development.

Consistent with its mandate, which also reflects the principle of universality, WFP will continue to: Targeted interventions are needed to help to improve the lives of the poorest people - 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. The ultimate objective of food aid should be the elimination of the need for food aid. Food aid is one of the many instruments that can help to promote food security, which is defined as access of all people at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life.В В№ The policies governing the use of World Food Programme food aid must be oriented towards the objective of eradicating hunger and poverty. WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system.

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