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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower, former US President, 1953 |
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Scheduled to go into operation in 1963 as a three-year experimental programme, WFP was up and running before it could walk.
An earthquake hit Iran in September 1962, followed by a hurricane in Thailand in October. Newly independent Algeria was resettling 5 million refugees.
Food aid was urgently needed and WFP supplied it. It has never stopped
Since 1996, WFP has been governed by the WFP Executive Board, which consists of 36 Member States. The Executive Director, appointed jointly by the UN Secretary General and the Director-General of the FAO for fixed five-year terms, sits at the head of the Secretariat of WFP.
WFP'S EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER STATES: YEAR 2002
WFP's Executive Board consists of 36 Member States: half are elected by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), with the other half chosen by the Council of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
Members serve three-year terms and are eligible for re-election.
Elected by FAO Council
Bangladesh, Canada, China, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Germany, Haiti, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Romania, Syrian Arab Republic, Switzerland, United States of America.
Elected by ECOSOC
Algeria, Australia, Cameroon, Cuba, Denmark, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, United Kingdom.
Find out more about the World Food Program by clicking HERE
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