The Nobel Peace Prize, 2020 was awarded to which of the following organisations?

1. A

   World Food Programme

   (a) Official key: The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to the World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger and for its role in improving conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas. WFP is a UN humanitarian agency, not UNDP, WHO or the World Bank. This is the keyed organisation.

2. B

   United Nations Development Programme

   UNDP works on development and the Human Development Index, but it did not receive the 2020 Peace Prize. Confusing UNDP with WFP mixes two UN brands. The 2020 peace award was food assistance, not UNDP’s mandate as such.

3. C

   World Health Organisation

   WHO led the early COVID-19 international health response in 2020 but was not the Peace Prize laureate that year. The Norwegian Nobel Committee named WFP. WHO is a distractor from the pandemic year.

4. D

   World Bank

   The World Bank is a lending institution, not the 2020 Peace Prize winner. It has never been interchangeable with WFP on this list. The keyed body is the World Food Programme.

Summary. Official key is (a). In 2020 the Nobel Peace Prize went to the World Food Programme for fighting hunger and linking food aid to peace in conflict zones. UNDP, WHO and the World Bank are other global bodies on the paper, not that year’s peace laureate. The organisation to remember is WFP.