NOV 2022-APR 2023

Pakistan Floods: Ramping Up Food and Nutrition Assistance

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NOV 2022-APR 2023

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace and prosperity. In 2022, WFP reached 160 million people in over 120 countries and territories. We funded WFP’s School Meals Programme across Africa and the Middle East from 2014 until 2021. We’ve also supported WFP in Mozambique since 2014, initially focusing on setting up a nationally owned school meals programme for all pre-primary and primary schools across the country. Since 2017, we’ve been funding WFP’s work to provide post-harvest-loss solutions for smallholder farmers. In 2022, we funded the organisation’s food and nutrition assistance operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today, we’re helping WFP reach vulnerable communities affected by hunger, conflict, and climate shocks across the Horn of Africa.

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CHALLENGE

The devastating floods that struck Pakistan between June and October 2022 – the worst in over a decade – left over 33 million people in need of immediate, lifesaving support. Houses, infrastructure, crops, and livestock were washed away in vast areas of the country, while many key public health facilities and water systems were damaged or destroyed

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ACTION

WFP rapidly scaled up its emergency response to support efforts by Government authorities to provide food and cash assistance for hundreds of thousands of families in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Punjab.

The floods drove up what were already high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. From November 2022 till April 2023, we supported WFP to provide children under 2 and pregnant and breastfeeding women with specialised nutritious foods to help prevent and treat malnutrition.

Our funds supported WFP’s logistics response, including the coordination of the arrival of cargo vessels, flights, and trains carrying relief items and their dispatch to flood-ravaged areas by truck or boat.

Since August 2022, WFP provided 3.8 million flood-affected people with food and other urgently needed assistance. WFP is gradually transitioning to community asset and livelihood rehabilitation activities, based on the recovery needs of those in flood-affected areas.

Our funding is also helping WFP implement long-term, resilience-building activities such as community construction of flood protection walls, water diversion and retention schemes, development of small dams, and livelihoods protection activities. Multi-purpose livelihoods and evacuation centres are being constructed in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces.

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