As part of its annual workplan, the Office of Internal
Audit conducted an audit of WFP operations in the State of
Palestine that focused on beneficiary management,
cash-based transfers, procurement, monitoring, finance,
budget management and service provision. The work of WFP
in the State of Palestine, as defined in the Country
Strategic Plan 2018–2022, aims to provide relief food
assistance to the poorest and most severely food insecure
people in the State of Palestine. The country strategic
plan also supports long-term resilience via a livelihood
approach. The audit focused on the implementation of
activities 1 –Provision of unconditional food assistance
(including through cash-based transfers and in-kind
modalities) and nutrition information to poor and
food-insecure households, and 4 – Service provision of
WFP’s delivery platforms to partners , under strategic
outcomes 1 and 3. Based on the results of the audit, the
Office of Internal Audit reached an overall conclusion of
some improvement needed.