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 140 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. 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 efforts to provide food and nutrition assistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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CHALLENGE

The devastating floods that struck Pakistan between June and October 2022 – the worst in over a decade – have left over 33 million people in need of immediate, lifesaving support. Houses, infrastructure, crops, and livestock have been 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 ongoing 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 have driven up what were already high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. WFP is providing children under 2 and pregnant and breastfeeding women with specialised nutritious foods to help prevent and treat malnutrition.

WFP also supports the logistics response, helping to coordinate the arrival of cargo vessels, flights, and trains carrying relief items and dispatching them to flood-ravaged areas by truck or boat

WFP will gradually transition to recovery and resilience activities, helping communities rebuild infrastructure, adopt climate-smart solutions, and restore livelihoods.

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IMPACT

As of January 2023, WFP has supported the trans-shipment of 11 trains using 1,400 trucks, coordinated the arrival of 88 flights and 250 containers of goods donated by governments around the world.

+3.1M

flood-affected people supported

including more than 199,000 children under 2 and 221,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women provided with specialised nutritious foods (as of January 2023)

72,275