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In 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) made an admirable effort, distributing a record $3.26 billion in financial aid to 72 countries. Yet, even boasting of this resounding success, challenges remain in the precise distribution of these funds to those most in need.
Imagine, sometimes, that the sheer diversity of systems used to collect these funds can seem like an intractable labyrinth. That's where DARTS comes in! DARTS, or Data Assurance and Reconciliation Tool Simplified, isn't just a web application.
It is an infallible ally in guaranteeing the accuracy of cash aid, reinforcing donors' accountability to the WFP, evaluating the institution's program, and thus ensuring a follow-up of operations where everyone feels confident, thanks to its interface. In this way, aid can be better collected, centralized and delivered to the regions of the world where it is most needed.
In 2023, the WFP focused on Yemen, where 21.6 million people were in need of humanitarian aid.
But wait, there's more! Supply chain disruptions? Limited funds? Let’s not panic! Sometimes, the extent of the data collected can make routing operations perilous or confusing. Prisma is a powerful tool for analyzing and centralizing this data. This system provides a clear vision for understanding the terrain, predicting scenarios and making more flexible and effective operational decisions, based on evidence... A kind of crystal ball guiding WFP's operational decisions.
Route The Meals? An ingenious solution for bringing meals to where they're needed most. Children in remote, hard-to-reach areas? Route The Meals deploys mathematical models to plan efficient delivery routes, reduce costs and carbon footprints, and above all, feed many families. Meals reach schools more efficiently, even in the most remote areas.
To date, Route the Meal has been implemented in Haiti and Benin, benefiting 1.7 million children.
Where to store food strategically? When to buy? How and when to use limited resources to reach the greatest possible number of people? With the GUP optimization system, the WFP skilfully juggles these questions to manage food flows, find the best locations for warehouses, purchase commodities at the right time, and use the WFP's limited resources wisely. By analyzing geographic and numerical data efficiently, GUP makes every decision an effective one: food is thus gathered in areas where conflict is avoided, and delivered at more strategic times of day.
While we are all familiar with the aid provided by the United Nations during the most difficult conflicts, few of us know how it is organized. Through this program. The UN Booking Centre, managed by the WFP, is a global resource for many UN agencies. It streamlines essential travel and accommodation services, including guest houses, aircraft and UN vehicles. This ensures safe travel for international humanitarian groups on emergency missions.
This system also strives to tackle ecological challenges by reducing the carbon footprint of U.N. agencies as much as possible. Their objectives: to double the number of users over the next two years, and to reduce the WFP's CO2 footprint by 10 million tonnes a year.
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