Meanwhile, WFP is extending cash and food-for-work projects to more people in Niger, and boosting nutrition for children under the age of two, pregnant women and nursing mothers.
The WFP implementing partners staff meet with Commune Development Committees (CDCs), where they are operational or commune leaders to inform them of the participatory process to be followed in the selection of food-for-work projects.
And he also started a food-for-work project in which impoverished locals help rebuild roads.
I also look after the stores for World Food Programme "food-for-work" project.
wishes to build a school or an irrigation system or organize a food-for-work road-improvement project, it must make arrangements through the local commanders, whose bargaining power vis-à-vis the Northern Alliance as a whole derives from the fact that they have small armies of their own.
The World Food Programme can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food-for-work programmes oriented to construction projects.
Over the past year as food and fuel prices soared, the World Bank worked with United Nations agencies to increase food-for-work programs, seed and fertilizer projects, maternal and child nutrition programs and other assistance.
In Nepal, newspapers carried articles this week about hundreds of workers in a food-for-work program who stopped the construction of a road because the project manager had stolen the food.
The fast-track World Bank money would be available immediately, bypassing the normal project vetting procedures, and would help fund safety net support for the hungry, in the form of school feeding programmes or food-for-work schemes.
Non-emergency food aid can be divided into targeted food aid, which is given as food to recipients (examples include food-for-work or school lunch programmes) and monetized food aid, which is sold on local markets and the cash from its sale used to fund development projects.
