Ukraine interim country strategic plan (2025–2027)

ICSP approved at EB November 2024 session

Nearly three years since the escalation of the war in February 2022, Ukraine continues to face a severe humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen in Europe for decades. Forty percent of the population – 14.6 million people – require humanitarian assistance, and 6.3 million have sought refuge abroad. Humanitarian needs continue to deepen as the conflict persists, with vulnerable populations facing critical challenges related to protection, access to food and essential services. 

In the midst of war, the Ukrainian people and the Government display extraordinary resilience and a determination to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, focusing on agricultural recovery, infrastructure repair and the revival of local markets. The international community continues to play an important role, supporting government efforts to meet humanitarian needs and promoting a comprehensive and inclusive recovery process in regions where conditions allow. 

WFP has been responding to humanitarian needs in Ukraine since February 2022, providing food assistance through in-kind and cash-based transfers to more than 3 million people a month. WFP has also supported the restoration of supply chains and the strengthening of the national food and social protection systems and has provided school meals to crisis-affected schoolchildren and common services to humanitarian and development actors.

Under this interim country strategic plan, WFP will continue to prioritize meeting the critical needs of conflict-affected people, ensuring the provision of prompt and appropriate food assistance for the most food-insecure groups in hard-to-reach areas near the front line. At the same time, WFP will accelerate efforts to restore agricultural livelihoods and productive capabilities, reinforcing national food systems to improve food security in Ukraine while also contributing to global food security through the re-building of export capacities. 

The interim country strategic plan is aligned with WFP’s strategic plan for 2022–2025, the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Ukraine and Ukraine’s United Nations sustainable development cooperation framework for 2025–2029, and seeks to achieve the following outcomes: 

➢ Outcome 1: Crisis-affected populations in Ukraine, including internally displaced persons, are able to meet their food and nutrition needs during and in the aftermath of a crisis. 

➢ Outcome 2: Food systems actors and crisis-affected communities in Ukraine contribute to and benefit from the inclusive economic recovery and restoration of food systems in support of livelihoods, food and nutrition needs by 2027. 

➢ Outcome 3: The Government of Ukraine and partners have enhanced shock-responsive capacities to support vulnerable populations by 2027. 

➢ Outcome 4: Humanitarian and development actors in Ukraine have enhanced year-round capacity to support crisis-affected populations.