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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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