The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, it works to empower local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition, family incomes. It uses a two-prong strategy: mobilizing grassroots people for self-reliant development, and mobilizing committed local leadership to clear away obstacles, cut red-tape and mobilize resources to enable grassroots action to succeed. Its highest priority is the empowerment of women.

THP applies a decentralized, people-centered methodology called "strategic planning-in-action (SPIA)" to enable people to end their own hunger in a large-scale, lasting way. SPIA is being applied in the 11 states of India that comprise 80% of that nation's population, in all 64 districts of Bangladesh, in 7 countries in Africa, and in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. THP has recently launched the African Woman Food Farmer Initiative - for the economic empowerment of Africa's most important and least-supported producer - and the South Asia Initiative, to empower grassroots women leaders as key change agents for their country