Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is a German non-governmental organisation founded in 1962 as the German arm of the FAO's Freedom from Hunger Campaign, now one of Germany's largest private aid agencies. It works in roughly 35 countries on food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture, water and sanitation, and emergency relief, and it co-publishes the annual Global Hunger Index with Concern Worldwide. Headquarters is in Bonn. Funding is a mix of German government money (BMZ, the Federal Foreign Office), EU and UN grants, and private donations, which gives it a heavier dependence on institutional donors than its public image as a charity suggests.

WHH has run a country programme in Nepal since the 1970s, with an office in Kathmandu and project work concentrated in the Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and parts of the mid-hills, mostly through local partner NGOs rather than direct implementation. Nepalese staff make up nearly all of the country team. Programme roles include project managers and coordinators, food security and livelihoods officers, nutrition and WASH specialists, agriculture and value chain advisers, and disaster risk reduction and emergency response staff. Because WHH works through partners, it also hires partnership and capacity development officers, and its donor mix means monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) and grants compliance positions come up regularly. The support side is standard: finance, logistics and procurement, HR, admin, and occasionally IT and communications.

Hiring is almost entirely national contracts recruited in Nepal, with a small expatriate layer (usually the country director and one or two technical advisers). Pay sits in the mid-range for Kathmandu INGOs, below UN and ADB but competitive with peers like Oxfam or CARE, and contracts follow project funding cycles of two to four years.