Annual Country Report 2022: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Annual Country Report 2022: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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Bolivia is a landlocked country affected by the growing effects of climate change and recurring extreme climate-related events, food insecurity and malnutrition, compounded with socioeconomic inequality. Nationally, 52 percent of the population lives in food insecurity, predominantly affecting those in rural areas, where the Gini coefficient is 0.48. Additionally, Bolivia scored 0.734 in the gender gap index, showing that women are 27 percent less likely than men to have equal opportunities. Forty-two percent of the population is Indigenous, with 36 Indigenous-recognized nations and 36 official languages. In 2022, Bolivia experienced volatile food prices mainly due to the Ukraine crisis and related increases in energy prices, inflation costs, the pandemic's residual effects and political disturbances, including roadblocks that impacted food production and distribution. In 2022, WFP implemented the last year of its Country Strategic Plan (CSP), launched in 2019. Contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 (Zero Hunger) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), the CSP covered four strategic outcomes: food assistance for crisis-affected populations, nutrition-sensitive interventions, support to smallholder farmers facing climate shocks, and capacity strengthening of national and subnational institutions. WFP reached 31,325 food-insecure people (50 percent women) through activities implemented in rural and urban areas, responding to immediate and protected crises and strengthening resilience, especially in climate change adaptation and access to water for human consumption and agriculture. WFP fully resourced the 2022 requirements. However, the capacity-strengthening strategic outcomes on nutrition, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation did not receive funds in 2022 and were mainstreamed in emergency and resilience activities.

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