World Food Programme

Three-Decades-Long Partnership

For over 30 years, World Vision and the World Food Programme (WFP) have partnered around a shared vision for a hunger-free world for the world’s most vulnerable children, families and communities. This longstanding partnership focuses on delivering life-saving assistance to crisis-affected populations and promoting long-term transformation.

WFP values World Vision’s strong community presence, operational excellence, and robust risk management systems. As one of WFP’s largest implementing partners, World Vision is trusted to deliver high-quality programmes across a range of diverse sectors, often in the most challenging and hard-to-reach environments.

The partnership is further strengthened by a broad network of strategic and operational relationships between the two organisations at the national, regional and global levels.

Better Together

World Vision and WFP share a long-standing partnership rooted in the 2030 Agenda’s commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. This collaboration extends beyond program implementation to include active participation in key humanitarian coordination platforms and global advocacy efforts. Key areas of joint engagements include:

Humanitarian Coordination Platforms such as clusters, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), etc.
Global Advocacy Forums such as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and the Economic and Social Council Humanitarian Affairs (ECOSOC-HAS).

Together, World Vision and WFP advocate for policies and practices that prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable populations. Furthermore, World Vision has formally endorsed the Famine Mitigation and Prevention Compact, reflecting a shared vision and commitment to intensify collective advocacy over the next twelve months to prevent and mitigate famine and starvation. Through this compact, World Vision pledges to raise awareness of emerging famine risks, share real-time stories from affected communities, and advocate across global platforms to ensure the crisis receives the urgent attention and action it demands. This commitment reinforces World Vision's role as a proactive voice for the most vulnerable in the face of escalating hunger emergencies.

Focus of our collaboration

Together, we work to improve nutrition, health, education and food security outcomes and empower vulnerable communities to become self-reliant.

Key Partnership Facts

+30

years of partnership

+33

countries impacted

2000

staff implementing projects

SHARED COMMITTMENT TO THE MOST VULNERABLE

- across the HDP Nexus -

Impact Overview 2025

10.7M

people, including 7M children reached

60%

of those reached and impacted are children

82%

of the WV’s WFP portfolio focused on children in the fragile contexts

194

projects implemented

2 & 17

SDGs contributed to

WFP Projects In WV Operational Areas

Partnership in Action

World Vision mobilising critical aid for Myanmar earthquake survivors in partnership with WFP

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