March 2024-Feb 2025
A Regional Response to the Food and Hunger Crisis
© WFP / Mostafa Ghroz
2014-2025
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 2023, WFP reached 150 million people in over 120 countries and territories. We provided funding for 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 on providing post-harvest-loss solutions for smallholder farmers. In 2022, we supported 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, Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
CHALLENGE
© WFP / Ali Jadallah
ACTION
WFP assists those most in need, including refugees and internally displaced people, responding to emergencies while building resilience through enhanced food systems, social protection, and climate action.
Activities across the region include food and cash assistance, school feeding programmes, and malnutrition treatment. WFP also works to connect vulnerable and food-insecure communities to social protection and livelihood programmes.
IMPACT
PEOPLE AIMED TO BE REACHED
across the region in 2024, (5.04 million of which with nutrition assistance) based on projected needs on the ground, among the communities WFP supports.
.jpg?&width=1200&quality=80&auto=webp)
.jpg?&width=1200&quality=80&auto=webp)
18 Oct 2023
BAGS OF HOPE
In celebration of World Food Day, we spoke with Adilson Mangueze from the World Food Programme to better understand the importance of hermetic bags for reducing crop loss.
12 Jan 2022
Helping Afghans at home and away
With the Taliban takeover, the situation for the Afghan population continues to deteriorate. As winter approaches, rural communities will soon be isolated. We’re supporting three humanitarian organisations to ensure Afghans can access their basic needs inside and outside their homeland.
28 Oct 2020
Peace starts with food
On Friday 9 October 2020, the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the world. We celebrate our long-standing partner and its achievements.