CHALLENGES FOR HUMANITARIAN FOOD ASSISTANCE: THE WORLD FOOD PROGRQAMME’S PROCUREMENT ADMINISTRATION

ABSTRACT: Public procurement is an essential process for the success of international humanitarian food assistance. On this paper, WFP’s procurement administration is analyzed. WFP was established in early 1960’s. Procurement is very important for WFP financially and also for performance of its operations. WFP’s main procurement can be categorized into three – Food, Transportation and Non-food. These three procurement categories much differ from each other in terms of the manner of procurement implementation. WFP has three important external actors, that is: Governments, Companies and NGOs. Actually, how to establish cooperative relations with these actors is the key point. At the end, above analyses are summarized. Also, some insights to procurement study in general and WFP’s current biggest challenge are pointed out