March 2024-Feb 2025

A Regional Response to the Food and Hunger Crisis

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.

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CHALLENGE

From Armenia to Yemen, from Egypt to Iraq, and from Ukraine to Syria, the number of people experiencing acute food insecurity across the Middle East, Northern Africa and Eastern Europe has increased to 43.1 million in 2024. WFP projects that the requirements for the coming months could be among the largest in our history.

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

32M

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.