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The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency. Each year, it provides food for an average of 90 million poor people to meet their nutritional needs, including 56 million hungry children in more than 80 of the world's poorest countries.
In autumn 1993, WFP set up its country office in Tbilisi. Later on, a sub-office was established in Poti to support operations throughout the country.
The initial work of WFP in the Caucasus was aimed at improving the coordination of food aid and ensuring the timely delivery of humanitarian supplies. This was undertaken so that that millions of people in all three South Caucasus countries could receive their targeted food aid. In so doing, WFP has played its part in promoting stability, transition and development in the region.
 During the period of 1993-2006, a total of 192,000 metric tonnes of various food commodities were mobilized to assist over 700,000 vulnerable people in Georgia. The food benefited thousands of destitute people, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Chechen refugees, school children, tuberculosis patients and subsistence farmers under various relief and recovery components. The overall value of WFP food assistance amounted to USD 90 million.
In addition, WFP provided extensive logistics support during 1994-1997 to stabilize the region’s transport infrastructure and ensure the safe delivery of millions of tonnes of food aid. WFP assisted the Georgian ports of Poti and Batumi and the Caucasian Railways with USD 19 million worth of technical and other assistance.
Since 1999 there has been a drive to move away from strictly relief-related efforts and towards recovery and rehabilitation through Food-for-Work (FFW) activities, which support agricultural development in poor rural areas. In addition, WFP has recently expanded its scope of operation by complementing the government’s efforts to educate children and fight tuberculosis (TB).
The overall goal of WFP’s current Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO 10211.1) in Georgia is to promote development and stability through selected relief and recovery activities in line with the government’s commitment to poverty eradication under the Millennium Development Goals.
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Priority Areas
 Through relief food assistance, WFP resources contribute to food security among society’s most vulnerable groups, including the elderly, destitute children, Chechen refugees and victims of natural disasters. In terms of recovery, WFP promotes Food-for-Work (FFW) activities to assist small-scale rural landholders in strengthening their agricultural assets in order increase their self-reliance and, consequently, their income, as well as stimulate local food production. WFP further complements the government’s efforts with a Food-for-Education (FFE) programme to address short-term hunger and micro-nutrient deficiencies among school children and prevent children from being admitted to institutions.
In partnership with the Global Fund, WFP renders food assistance to promote DOTS treatment and recovery among TB and HIV/AIDS patients. Throughout all its activities, WFP places a strong focus on enhancing local capacities, participation and ownership in order to lay the groundwork for the eventual handover of assistance programmes to government counterparts and the phase-out of its activities by the end of 2008. WFP’s ongoing operation was approved in November 2006 for the two-year period of 2007-2008. Within this period, WFP plans to assist over 200,000 people with 26,500 metric tonnes of food at an overall cost of USD 13 million.
Contact Person:
Yulon Tsilosani, Reports Officer
28, Zhgenti Str., Nutsubidze II m/r., Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel: 995 32 31 72 53/63/65/85
Fax: 995 32 31 72 96
E-mail: yulon.tsilosani@wfp.org
http://www.wfp.org/countries/georgia
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