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In Sudan, WFP scaled up in areas where famine had already been confirmed or was threatened, to prevent its further spread. We reached over 800,000 people with food assistance, despite these areas seeing the highest levels of fighting in the country.
Across the State of Palestine, WFP stayed and delivered despite unabating conflict and access restrictions that at times made our work nearly impossible. We reached 2.1 million people, including 1.9 million in Gaza, though with drastically reduced assistance.
In Haiti, as insecurity continued to escalate and drive mass displacement, WFP was one of the few agencies with the capacity and access to deliver at scale, reaching 2 million of the most vulnerable people. We secured unprecedented access to several areas controlled by armed groups, which saw us deliver life-saving assistance to 257,000 people in areas of Port-au-Prince.
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We vastly expanded emergency operations in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as conflict and weather extremes drove food insecurity and displacement. This tripled the number of people reached with food assistance from an average of 400,000 in May 2023 to 1.3 million people in 2024. However, severe funding shortages meant WFP was forced to choose who received food and who went without.
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WFP took a proactive, anticipatory approach to pending disasters throughout 2024, seeking to reduce their impact on vulnerable communities and the scale and cost of humanitarian response.
We reached more than 8.6 million people with early-warning messages and over 1.3 million with money transfers ahead of 12 extreme weather events – comprising cyclones, floods and droughts – in 13 countries.
Our Disaster Risk Financing helped communities facing El Niño-related drought across Southern Africa. In Madagascar, Zambia and Zimbabwe, over US$6.1 million in payouts helped 577,000 people to rebuild their livelihoods and homes.
When Tropical Cyclone Gamane hit Madagascar in March 2024, advanced financing meant prompt life-saving assistance to over 72,000 people in remote and previously inaccessible areas, and faster distributions compared to previous seasons.
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Livelihoods form the backbone of people's increased resilience to shocks. In 2024, WFP supported 20.4 million people in developing more resilient livelihoods, as a means of improving their food security and nutrition. We assisted 1.9 million smallholder farmers across 51 countries, through improved post-harvest management and market integration.
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When crisis strikes, it’s not usually a lack of food that directly kills – it’s malnutrition, which is responsible for half of all child deaths and 20 percent of maternal deaths. WFP’s work is therefore laser-focused on young children and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, who have the highest nutritional needs.
We provided life-saving malnutrition prevention and treatment to 21.4 million women and children in 20 crisis-affected countries in 2024. However, significant gaps remained between resources and the growing, urgent demand for nutritional support.
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WFP also laid out plans to maximize the delivery of nutrition support to mothers and children, by using our food distribution, school meals and social protection programmes as a channel to reach the most nutritionally vulnerable. This builds on our comparative advantage as the largest provider of food assistance worldwide, recognizing good nutrition as key to saving lives while empowering children to learn and adults to live healthy and productive lives.
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A coordinated, efficient response to multiple emergencies was indispensable in a time of searing demand against ever-diminishing resources. WFP facilitated a collective effort that pooled expertise and reduced the risk of duplication.
WFP provided on-demand supply chain services to 145 clients and managed 456,583 metric tons of cargo in support of other humanitarian organizations and governments, with services ranging from storage and transport to fuel and food procurement.
As lead agency of the Logistics Cluster, we ensured the delivery of over 64,589 metric tons of urgently needed relief items in high-risk areas such as Burkina Faso, South Sudan and Ukraine. Collaborations with Agility, Airbus, DP World, Maersk and UPS enabled airlifts, helicopter support, cold chain storage and delivery, and expanded warehousing.
The WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Response Depot increased access and coverage in locations such as Gaza and Chad by switching from air to land deliveries, using hubs in Dubai and Accra respectively. This also reduced transport costs.
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India’s Targeted Public Distribution System is the world’s largest food distribution programme, reaching over 800 million people via 500,000 fair price shops. WFP mapped more efficient routes between grain warehouses and distribution points, saving state governments US$15 million in transport costs.
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A small white UNHAS Dash 8 airplane taxis down the rough tarmac of tiny Beni airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, raising a cloud of dust on a sunny morning – along with hopes for this conflict-torn region.
This is not just a routine flight. It is a lifeline. One that has become synonymous with the World Food Programme (WFP)-managed UN Humanitarian Air Service over the two decades of its existence.
For passenger Kalongo Rwabikanga, there are no other options available. “Without these flights, our ability to make a difference in these hard-to-reach locations would be limited,” says Rwabikanga, coordinator for the Congolese nongovernmental group Action Entraide, which works to promote health and hygiene, prevent gender-based violence and foster peace in neighbouring Ituri province.
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WFP’s instinctive partnership approach to tackling hunger and building resilience was evident across our work in 2024, as we teamed up with new partners and strengthened collaborations with UN agencies, NGOs, companies, foundations and individual supporters.
NGOs are the bridge to the people WFP serves, with their in-depth knowledge and understanding of communities helping us empower people through more inclusive and responsive support. WFP worked with 927 NGOs, of whom 85 percent were national organizations. We allocated US$707 million to them for services including targeting, distribution and monitoring of assistance. In total, 62 percent of all WFP aid is channelled through NGOs.
The private sector also offers a prime example of how WFP works in unison with partners for greater impact. As an example, a new partnership with CMA CGM Foundation saw the French logistics company providing WFP with containers to transport food and other assistance in Kenya, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia and Togo, in addition to support for emergency operations in Lebanon.
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Ramata Ouedraogo never misses a farming season. It’s the main source of food for her family of 16. And in Burkina Faso’s punishingly dry and hot Nord region where she lives, she can only grow crops three or four months out of the year.
“Our biggest worry here is finding enough food for our children,” says 47-year-old Ouedraogo, who is part of a women’s farming organization supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the village of Reka.
“When we can have enough to eat thanks to our harvests, then we can use the rest of our profits for other needs.”
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