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WFP’s Strategic Plan (2022–2025) outlines the many ways that the World Food Programme (WFP), working with others, can most efficiently and effectively save and change lives. It renews our commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For the World Food Programme (WFP), the pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to fulfilling its mandate to not only save lives, but to change lives by ending global hunger. Food insecurity and gender inequality are closely interlinked; globally there are 150 million more women who are food insecure than men.

The Annual Review reflects on WFP's work in 2021, when global conflict, increasing climate shocks and the continued ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic combined to send rates of acute hunger to record highs. In response, we provided lifesaving and life-changing support to more than 128 million people in over 120 countries, while working to help build more peaceful and prosperous societies.

JUBA – The United States Government, through the U.S.

Thanks to the generosity of the United States, WFP will provide 114,153 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi with critical nutrition support in the form of cash transfers.

An initial US$3 million grant from the OPEC Fund will seed the facility with additional funding mobilized from co-financiers, including multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, and other donors. The facility seeks to mobilize US$500 million in investments by 2030 and will kick-off with pilot initiatives in sub –Saharan Africa.

“Tens of millions of people are staring into an abyss.

“The economic crisis is crippling this country and families are facing hunger every day. We have heard desperate cries from mothers who do not know how they can afford to feed their children,’’ said WFP Afghanistan Country Director Mary-Ellen McGroarty. “School feeding contributes to children’s health and nutrition and helps them learn and perform better.

A Partnerships Framework was signed in Rome today by WFP Programme Director, Humanitarian and Development Division, David Kaatrud, and UNCDF Executive Secretary Preeti Sinha. “This partnership comes at a critical time. The world is facing a global hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions in 2022.

Food fortification is one of the most cost-effective means of combating micronutrient deficiencies, which remain a major public health problem in Tajikistan, particularly for women and children. The roundtable was conducted by WFP and attended by representatives from the government, wheat flour mills and development partners.