Day in, day out, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (WFP) staff work to deliver life-saving assistance in physically and emotionally stressful conditions.
A healthy workforce enables ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳to reach the world¡¯s most food insecure people. Ensuring staff wellness is therefore a responsibility the Organization has not only towards its employees, but also towards the donors who entrust it with their money and the beneficiaries who rely on its capacity to deliver.
A trailblazer among humanitarian agencies, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳adopted a comprehensive wellness strategy in 2015. Wellness is a holistic, multidimensional concept, which encompasses body and mind, and involves all aspects that can have an impact on staff¡¯s ability to deliver on WFP¡¯s pledge to combat hunger. These include health, living and working conditions and physical safety. This approach requires the whole Organization ¨C from governing bodies to management and staff themselves ¨C to work together to create conducive conditions for employees to function at their optimum levels.