Norway entered into a four-year agreement with the World Food Program (WFP), through which it will provide the program with a total of NOK 1.6 billion.
“This agreement signals strong Norwegian support for the important work the WFP does. Increasing hunger and food shortages are deeply disturbing,” Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (AP) stated.
The agreement amounts to NOK 400 million a year of so-called core support. That means that the World Food Program can use the money for the measures they believe are most important and for efforts in the humanitarian crises where there is the greatest need for humanitarian aid at any given time.
In addition to the core support, the WFP also receives support every year for humanitarian efforts at a country level.
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