Monaco participates in the annual session of the World Food Programme Executive Board

From June 24 to 28, the Principality of Monaco took part, in Rome, in the annual session of the World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Board, which opened with the celebration of International Day of Women in Diplomacy.
In her address, the Executive Director, H.E. Ms. Cindy MCCAIN, highlighted the numerous ongoing crises – notably in Gaza, Sudan, the Sahel, Haiti, Yemen, Myanmar, and Ukraine – as well as the measures taken to support and protect local populations, but also the WFP teams working on the front lines to help vulnerable communities severely affected by food shortages.
Emphasizing the vital necessity of delivering emergency food aid to these areas, she called on Members to exert all their political and diplomatic weight “to ease access constraints, ensure the safety and security of humanitarian workers and, above all, help negotiate political solutions to end the conflicts that fuel so much hunger and suffering worldwide.”
During this session, the WFP Executive Board approved, among other things, the 2023 Annual Performance Report, the Management Plan for 2024-2026, as well as three country strategic plans, including that of the Kingdom of Lesotho for the 2024-2029 period.
On the sidelines, H.E. Ms. Anne EASTWOOD met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lesotho, present for the occasion, who showed great sensitivity towards the first partnership signed by Monaco with the WFP at the end of the year to support school feeding and small producers in two southern districts of the country particularly affected by poverty, malnutrition, and the consequences of climate change.
As a reminder, the Principality, committed to Sustainable Development Goal No. 2 (Zero Hunger), has made food security one of its main areas of intervention. The WFP is the first multilateral partner in volume of Monaco’s Cooperation, with nine ongoing development aid projects, more than half of which involve school canteens, a way to concretely contribute to the WFP’s 2020-2030 School Feeding Strategy and the Global School Feeding Coalition launched in 2021.