Mr. Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Food Programme (WFP) paid a courtesy call on Hon’ble Foreign Adviser H.E. Mr. Md. Touhid Hossain at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 28 August 2025.
The meeting was also attended by Mr. Samir Sudhir Wanmali, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, WFP and Mr. Domenico Scalpelli, Country Director of WFP Bangladesh. The discussion of the meeting was focused on several key topics, including WFP’s activities to support the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN), mitigating future funding crises, finding potential new donors and expediting repatriation process.
The Hon’ble Foreign Adviser urged WFP to place greater emphasis on its school feeding programmes in Bangladesh, recognizing the importance of such initiatives to address the malnutrition problems for the best interest of children. It may be mentioned that Mr. Carl Skau also attended the ‘Stakeholders’ Dialogue: Takeaways to the High-Level Conference on the Rohingya Situation” held from 24-26 August 2025 in Cox’s Bazar.