WFP’s Strategic Plan (2017–2021) includes “improve
nutrition” as one of its five strategic objectives, and
refers to nutrition as prominently as it does to the
organization’s traditional area of competence, food
security. The current Nutrition Policy, approved by the
Executive Board in early 2017, draws from lessons learned
from the evaluation (published in 2015) of the previous
Nutrition Policy. The Policy aims to leverage WFP’s
support to achieving zero hunger (Sustainable Development
Goal 2) and to strengthening global partnerships
(Sustainable Development Goal 17) by ensuring availability
of, access to, demand for and consumption of diets that
comprehensively meet – but do not exceed – the nutrient
requirements of nutritionally vulnerable groups. Based on
the results of the audit, the Office of Internal Audit has
come to an overall conclusion of partially satisfactory /
some improvement needed.