WFP is active in Pakistan since 1968 and invested more than $ 1.5 billion in development projects where food aid has been used to promote primary health, basic education, rural development and natural resource management and in emergencies related to refugees, floods, drought and earthquake.

WFP’s assistance is focused on the most food-insecure people: the poorest-of-the-poor living in marginal, remote areas where socio-economic indicators are far worse than in the rest of the country.

WFP aims to improve access to food in ways that enable vulnerable households, especially women and girls, to take advantage of development opportunities.

Operations include school feeding, mother and child nutrition and socio-economic development programmes. Goals include increased enrolment rates for girls, increased access to health services and increased ability of rural women to create and preserve physical assets.