Mar 2023-Feb 2024
Fighting Hunger in the Horn of Africa
©WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio

2014-2024
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency dedicated to fighting hunger. In 2022, it reached 158 million people in over 120 countries and territories. We funded WFP’s school meals programmes across Africa and the Middle East from 2014 until 2021. In Mozambique, where we’ve supported WFP since 2014, we contributed to the establishment of a nationally owned school meals programme for all pre-primary and primary schools in the country and, since 2017, we’ve helped pilot post-harvest-loss solutions for smallholder farmers. In 2022, we funded food and nutrition assistance for WFP programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today, we’re helping WFP provide critical assistance to communities in need across the Horn of Africa.
CHALLENGE
© WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio
ACTION
Working with 130 partners on the ground, 96 of which are local and national NGOs, WFP is delivering life-saving help to local communities, refugees, and internally displaced people across the region, with a focus on new arrivals. The assistance provided ranges from food and cash support to school meal activities. WFP is also promoting resilience-building initiatives for smallholder farmers, such as building irrigation canals and culverts, establishing community and household gardens, providing seeds and fertilizers, and triggering anticipatory financing to help farmers prepare for future climate hazards before they result in disaster.
IMPACT
WFP is scaling up its life-saving emergency response dramatically to address the high needs driven by drought.
drought-affected people will be supported with food and cash assistance
in 2023 across the Horn of Africa