Analytics drives U.N. World Food Programme response to operations, Edelman win

Abstract

The 2021 Edelman Award-winning project by the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was impressive in its own right, but the way the winning team handled - and helped - the pandemic crisis, made it a clear standout among the top-tier finalists. COVID-19 is the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II. As the worlds largest humanitarian organization, WFP is one of the main responders in food assistance (reaching 100 million people per year in more than 80 countries) and works with communities to improve nutrition. As a judge in the 2021 Edelman Competition, Harrison Schramm, CAP, principal research scientist at Group W and president-elect of the Analytics Society organization had invested over the last decade to address food insecurity get the recognition it greatly deserves," she said.