Contact
Otto Reichner Chief RMIS (Financial System and Process Support) United Nations World Food Programme Tel: +39.06.6513.2107 Email: wfpinfo@wfp.org wfp.org Fighting Hunger Worldwide
Website
http://www.wfp.org
Description
Part of the United Nations system, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP provides both emergency and developmental food assistance to between 75 and 90 million people every year in more than 70 countries. Around 15,000 people work for the organization, most of them in the field, directly serving the hungry poor.
IATI identifier
XM-DAC-41140
Implementation Schedule
http://cdn.wfp.org/iati/wfp-implementation-schedule-common-standard-v2.0.xlsx
Organisations / agencies covered
The data covers 100 % of World Food Programme's project activities.
Timeliness of Data
Data is published and updated on a monthly basis.
Frequency of publication
Monthly
Frequency of publication (extra comments)
In June 2013 WFP became the 150th IATI publisher. Initially we published on a quarterly basis. Since 2014 we moved to monthly publications.
Units of Aid
Activities do represent our projects.
Segmentation of Published Data
Initially, data was published in a single file. In 2015 we started to publish data by region.
Data Definitions and References
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Field Exclusions
WFP does not currently publish the following: Other activity identifiers (including donor reference), Activity Title (in recipient's language), Policy Markers. We will evaluate if this data can be made available in the future without incurring prohibitive cost.
Record Exclusions
All active projects are fully covered. We also report historical data, but only starting from 01.01.2010.
Thresholds
no specific tresholds applied
Other Constraints
Initially we have published all major activity attributes and expenditures. Within 2013 we plan to publish activity budgets and incoming funds as well as some additional activity data (e.g. results).
Data Quality
High quality data from operational financial and budgetary systems is used.
User Interface
n/a
User Interface Website
n/a