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 WFP Emergency Report - 14: 04-Apr-03
WFP is also getting ready to provide for Iraqis who may no longer have access to their monthly rations, such as IDP's, refugees and, particularly, vulnerable groups such as the elderly and handicapped.
WFP is expanding its existing infrastructure by establishing sub-offices in the western provinces of Khusestan, Kermanshah, and Orumieh.
WFP is planning to airlift 123 tons of food to the area to cover the needs of the 2000 malnourished children as well as 8000 members of their families.
www.cidi.org /humanitarian/wfp/03a/ixl12.html   (7541 words)

  
 WFP Pakistan-Press Releases
WFP is seeking to expand its collaboration with the Lady Health Worker outreach programme to deliver key health messages in WFP-selected districts.
WFP Afghanistan estimates that some three to four million people are severely affected and many may be forced to move, either to urban centres in Afghanistan or to neighbouring countries.
WFP Afghanistan has recently received funds under the Canadian Impact Grant for fortification of blended foods, micronutrient studies and a feasibility study of the milling and fortification capacity in Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan.
www.un.org.pk /wfp/pak-cont-prog.htm   (9015 words)

  
 Latest Famine News
WFP is also extremely concerned about the insufficient availability of nutritious fortified blended foods to assist malnourished children and mothers.
On 06 May, WFP held a meeting with the donor community in Asmara in order to update them on the gravity of the present humanitarian situation, and urge for further contributions towards meeting the needs of the affected population (WFP, 9 May, 2003).
WFP distributed a total of 860 tons of food, of which 201 tons was for relief food aid in the Northwest; 351 tons in the social sector support and 308 tons in rehabilitation activities(WFP, 16 May, 2003).
www.ucc.ie /famine/Latest/latest.html   (12604 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » WFP Emergency Report No. 43 of 2002
WFP is planning to participate next week in an UN inter-agency mission to the conflict areas of Korhogo, Odienne and Bouake.
WFP is currently monitoring the border areas near Ganta to assess the situation of possible returnees coming from Côte d'Ivoire.
WFP is already expecting to feed 1.8 million people in October, an increase from the one million predicted at the beginning of 2002.
www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/9422a0fb6def180f85256c5d00691ae7?OpenDocument   (5967 words)

  
 Windows File Protection and Windows
WFP and SFP perform the same service but differ slightly in the way they monitor protected files, which files are protected, and what mechanisms can be used to replace protected files.
WFP is triggered after it receives a directory change notification on a file in a protected directory.
WFP will then replace the incorrect file version that is being used by the operating system or that has been found in the dllcache directory.
www.microsoft.com /whdc/winlogo/drvsign/wfp.mspx   (1780 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » WFP Emergency Report No. 20 of 2002
WFP is currently discussing with the Department of Disaster Prevention, Relief and Rehabilitation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation to establish a Joint Steering Committee for the Emergency Food Security Programme.
WFP supplied 100 percent of the standard food ration to all beneficiaries, except for CSB and salt, which were distributed at 60 percent of the full ration.
WFP started distributing food and UNHCR will initiate their transfer on 17 May. Another 5,000 to 7,000 persons supposedly in Liberia could be on move towards Guinea.
www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/5d2dac4242ad2cd185256bbc005aa227?OpenDocument   (4765 words)

  
 Home | fwfp
Funds are desperately needed to help WFP provide emergency food to 2.5 million people in Niger, where children are beginning to die from starvation.
WFP urgently needs funds for life saving operations in West Africa, including Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Funds are needed for WFP’s emergency program in the El Chaco region, where the worst drought in seven years is taking its toll on thousands of people.
www.friendsofwfp.org   (120 words)

  
 WFP Emergency Report - 41: 15-Oct-99
WFP, UNHCR and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are currently engaged in a revision of a contingency plan in the event that the situation deteriorates in Burundi and are trying to identify suitable sites to accommodate new arrivals.
WFP has set up collective kitchens (six in Negage and two in Uige) to assist the most vulnerable and try and reduce the rate of global malnutrition which, according to the Italian NGO CUAMM survey, was 36 percent in Negage and 9 percent in Uige in September among the under-five IDP and resident children.
WFP is now arranging the registration process of people in need and identifying local experienced workers to carry out the distribution operations.
www.cidi.org /humanitarian/wfp/99b/0015.html   (2865 words)

  
 SPECIAL REPORT: FAO/WFP FOOD SUPPLY AND NUTRITION ASSESSMENT MISSION TO IRAQ IN OCTOBER 1997
Programming of WFP food assistance is designed to assist the destitute and vulnerable groups, victims of years of armed conflict and post-war economic collapse.
In 1995, WFP doubled its caseload to 2.15 million beneficiaries and included a project for malnourished children under 5, the group considered to be most at risk from the chronic malnutrition situation identified by the FAO/WFP Assessment Mission in 1995.
Until recently, WFP distributed a basic daily ration of 300 g wheat flour (or 400 g wheat grain in the northern Governorates), 30 g pulses and 30 g vegetable oil and 20 g sugar to provide 2000 kilo calories (kcal) per day.
www.fao.org /WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/srirq997.htm   (6274 words)

  
 Emergency Management Postings
WFP has finalized arrangements for procurement of 2,150 tons of wheat, which together with edible oil will be distributed to 50,000 beneficiaries in Kharan district in Balochistan in three cycles.
WFP is working with the government to improve beneficiary targeting and distributions as well as assisting local NGOs and church organizations with storage and distribution of food donated by the government.
WFP is awaiting the delivery of 1,562 tons of cereals, 252 tons of pulses, 60 tons of sugar and 127 tons of salt.
www.disasters.org /emgold/Droughts.htm   (5884 words)

  
 Description of the Windows File Protection Feature
WFP protects critical system files that are installed as part of Windows (for example, files with a.dll,.exe,.ocx, and.sys extension and some True Type fonts).
WFP uses the file signatures and catalog files that are generated by code signing to verify if protected system files are the correct Microsoft versions.
If WFP detects a file change and the affected file is not in the cache folder, WFP examines the version of the changed file that the operating system is currently using.
support.microsoft.com /support/kb/articles/Q222/1/93.ASP   (1437 words)

  
 About the Working Families Party
The WFP is a grassroots, community and labor based political party with chapters throughout New York State.
The day to day work of the WFP is conducted locally by chapters and clubs all over the state.
Membership in the WFP means more than signing a form or writing a check, it means being an active participant in the local party, with a full voice in all decisions.
www.workingfamiliesparty.org /about.html   (635 words)

  
 TechSpot | Windows File Protection guide
WFP designates certain files as important system files, initially those which are installed during the initial installation of the system, i.e.
WFP can easily and transparently replace the system file (which commonly are the targets of such hoaxes) with the copy stored in the dllcache.
WFP is there to make sure you don’t accidentally or deliberately do something to your system files that you shouldn’t.
www.techspot.com /tweaks/wfp/index.shtml   (486 words)

  
 Windows Filtering Platform
WFP is a new architecture in Microsoft Windows codenamed “Longhorn” that allows unprecedented access to the TCP/IP packet processing path, wherein outgoing and incoming packets can be examined or changed before allowing them to be processed further.
WFP provides APIs so that third-party ISVs can participate in the filtering decisions that take place at several layers in the TCP/IP protocol stack and throughout the operating system.
An example of a WFP application is the proposed Longhorn Personal Firewall, which replaces the Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP prior to Service Pack 2 (SP2) and the Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2 and later.
www.microsoft.com /whdc/device/network/WFP.mspx   (1243 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Witless for Peace by Alyssa A. Lappen
Think of WFP as a university version of Global Exchange, taking college students to see the “horrors” of American foreign policy and the supposed glories of socialism firsthand.
By his senior year at Miami University of Ohio, Meyer was a national WFP board member, and his devotion made its influence a fixture at the school.
WFP likewise had nothing positive to say about the recent Iraqi elections, where more than 60 percent of Iraqis rejected threats of terrorism and chose liberty over tyranny.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17040   (1174 words)

  
 NFL Players in Indonesia to Support WFP and Help Tsunami Survivors
The purpose of their visit is to raise awareness about the critical work WFP is doing in Asia, where the food aid agency is assisting more than a million tsunami survivors.
Currently, WFP is helping to feed more than 850,000 people in Sri Lanka, with a large logistics network spread throughout the country.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: we give food aid to an average of 90 million people in more than 80 countries each year, including 56 million hungry children.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=20006   (673 words)

  
 World Food Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger.
In 2000, WFP fed 83 million people in 83 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people.
years, WFP has gained considerable experience in helping the ultra-poor to improve their food security and access assets and opportunity.
www.un-bd.org /un/WFP   (109 words)

  
 WFP Blog
At the bottom line as an organizer one learns that sometimes it is not a question of doing the right thing or the wrong thing, but at least of doing something, allowing people to act in some way, to have a voice and to speak strongly with that voice.
Deanna Zandt, who manages the Start Making Sense project over at Alternet refers readers of her blog to the Nation story about the WFP and fusion politics.
Locally in New York City, the news is especially bad: "The only city with a million or more residents that exhibited a significant change in poverty level last year was New York City, which saw the rate increase from 19 percent to 20.3 percent," the AP reports.
wfpjournal.blogspot.com   (1476 words)

  
 Earthlife Africa Cape Town - GMO Food Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
These groups are protesting against the pressure exerted by the WFP and USAID on Sudan and Angola over their respective decisions to impose restrictions on GM food aid.
The WFP responded to the Angolan government by saying that the country would face a significant decrease in the provision of food aid if it continued to insist the GM grain is first milled.
Furthermore, they allege that the WFP must also have been aware of the August 2003 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and Biosafety of the Southern African Development Community, (SADC), of which Angola is a member, that its member states mill all GM grain before accepting it as food aid.
www.earthlife-ct.org.za /ct/article.php?story=20040503122744725   (681 words)

  
 WFP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We would like to express our deepest thanks to you - our donors - for your generous support to WFP over the past few years.
Governments: WFP receives no dues or UN assessed contributions
Order WFP Euro coin, launched in Italy to mark five decades of helping the hungry
www.wfp.org /index.asp?section=4   (95 words)

  
 Ars Technica - Managing and Disabling Windows File Protection (7/2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
WFP runs in the background and monitors your system for changes.
When a change is applied to any file that is considered "protected," WFP will normally (and transparently) attempt to restore the file to what it thinks is the right version.
WFP gets confused if you attempt to apply too many system patches at once, requiring you to reboot often.
arstechnica.com /tweak/win2k/others/disable_sfp-1.html   (713 words)

  
 World Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The WFP operates exclusively on donations of commodities and money.
There are concerns that the US is using the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake / tsunami crisis to dump GM food aid on afflicted populations, especially in Somalia, as happened in 2002 in southern Africa
FightHunger.org - WFP's global campaign to end child hunger by 2015
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WFP   (182 words)

  
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The agency said, in a statement issued in Addis Ababa, it needed US $4.2 million "to provide enough food for the refugees for at least the next six months", adding that it required an extra 8,500 mt "of cereals, vegetable oil, pulses, salt and blended foods".
If fresh assistance did not materialise, it said, WFP would "reduce rations to beneficiaries by 30 percent from January 2005", in addition to the expectation that cereal stocks could end by next April.
According to the statement, WFP had received $3.4 million of the $26.7 million that it required to assist the refugees in Ethiopia through the year 2005.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44566&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=ETHIOPIA   (455 words)

  
 The Politics of Famine in North Korea: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This natural disaster and a series of successive droughts and floods over the next three years are responsible for about 15-20 percent of the food deficit facing the country, the rest being attributable to collectivist agricultural policies [WFP/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) crop assessment, 1995].
The WFP and UNICEF nutritional surveys show malnutrition rates similar to those of the Hopkins study across the country.
WFP would sell food aid on the informal markets to reduce prices to an affordable level, but not so low that they would discourage increased production by farmers.
www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html   (7304 words)

  
 Aid & Development: WFP survey shows high prevalence of food insecurity in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to WFP's Baseline Food Security Assessment, the first of its kind in Iraq, of these 6.5 million people, some 2.6 million are so poor that they have to resell part of their food rations to buy basic necessities such as medicines and clothes.
Under the emergency operation, WFP is also working to strengthen national institutions connected with food security.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: in 2003 we gave food aid to a record 104 million people in 81 countries, including 56 million hungry children.
electroniciraq.net /news/1662.shtml   (749 words)

  
 WFP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When a change is applied to any file that is considered "protected," WFP will normally restore the file to what it thinks is the right version, all with out user intervention.
WFP gets messed up if you attempt to apply too many system patches at once, meaning you reboot more.
It is important to note that by disabling WFP you increase your susceptibility to viruses, hackers, and deviants.
www.griffin-digital.com /wfp.htm   (851 words)

  
 WFP Operational Update
Over the last two days, WFP has given through its NGO partners some 50 tons of rice and eight tons of biscuits and noodles to hungry victims of the tsunamis.
-- WFP is taking extra measures to step up the rate of food distributions in westernmost Aceh province, In order to bolster fuel supplies for its NGO partners in Aceh, WFP is sending empty drums by road from the neighbouring city of Medan, with the drivers instructed to fill them with fuel along the way.
-- WFP welcomed a donation of 2,400 tons of rice from the Japanese government, which agreed to WFP's request that the food be channeled from the agency's regular activities in Sri Lanka to the emergency.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=18568&nfid=rssfeeds   (608 words)

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