Iran food aid program Presentation for 4th meeting of the COMCEC poverty

Alleviation working group – September 2014

Two main institutes for supporting needy people

State Welfare Organization• Focus on cities / under ministry of cooperative , labor and social welfare

Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF)• Focus on rural area /

The Global Hunger Index (GHI)

Undernourishment: (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake)

Child underweight

Child mortality

To reflect the multidimensional nature of hunger, the GHI combines three equally weighted indicators into one index:

The GHI ranks countries on a 100-point scale. Zero is the best score (no hunger), and 100 is the worse .

From the 1990 GHI to the 2011 GHI, Iran is among10 countries were able to reduce their scores by 50percent or more. In fact Iran Ranks five among thebig winners .

food aid program

•Two main target : 1. Help those with low income

2. Try to lower inflation of food

food aid programbudget

•700 000 000 USD ( 2014)

•About .0001 of country’s GDP

food aid program

•7,500,000 People

• 2500000 Household

Food aid program other information

• Within four month the needy people can buy 10 item( Rice ,meet , chicken , egg …) from 6 Iranian chain stores

• Each person has received 10 USD & Maximum 40 USD forthe whole family

• After 4 month they can receive the cash ( if they do not buyanything)

Thank you