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

The answer is A) World Food Programme. The Nobel Committee announced the 2020 Peace Prize on 9 October 2020 and honoured WFP for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to peace in conflict-affected areas, and for acting against the use of hunger as a weapon of war.

• B) UNDP: A UN development agency (set up in 1965). It has never received the Peace Prize in 2020 or otherwise.
• C) WHO: A UN specialised agency for health, headquartered in Geneva, with its Constitution in force since 1948. It was not the 2020 laureate. The Covid-19 context of that year misleads many candidates.
• D) World Bank: Created at Bretton Woods in 1944 as a development finance institution. It is not a Peace Prize laureate.

The core concept is that the Nobel Peace Prize rewards efforts toward 'fraternity between nations', and the 2020 citation explicitly linked hunger with conflict. For Mains (GS-II and GS-III), this connects to food security, the link between conflict and humanitarian crises, and the role of multilateral agencies.

Trap: Aspirants choose WHO because 2020 was the pandemic year. Always check the exact citation and the agency's mandate, not the year's headlines.