Annual Country Report 2022: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2021-2024

Annual Country Report 2022: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2021-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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During 2022, Colombia witnessed a deteriorating humanitarian situation, exacerbated by increased violence from non-state armed groups (NSAGs); extreme weather and climatic events; a massive migration crisis; and high food price inflation and currency devaluation amplified by the lingering impacts of the Ukraine crisis. Colombia’s 60-year-long armed conflict resulted in 8.4 million internally displaced people. WFP’s Country Strategic Plan includes comprehensive programmes addressing humanitarian and emergency assistance, early recovery, livelihoods and resilience, peacebuilding, nutrition programming, social protection and social integration, school feeding, capacity strengthening and innovation. These programmes were unevenly resourced and funding levels decreased while people’s food needs increased. This disparity influenced programmatic results. For instance, one in every four people initially planned did not received WFP’s assistance. In 2022, WFP increased cash assistance to become the main modality while continuing voucher and in-kind assistance to provide flexible services for people in ever-changing contexts. Considering record inflation, WFP increased by 30 percent the value of cash transfers and hot meals for migrants and host communities to stabilize purchasing power. Despite challenges to access communities, WFP distributed nearly 30 percent more tonnage of locally procured food than in 2021. WFP also conducted a nationwide Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment for migrant and Colombian populations to enhance data-driven programming and decision-making. WFP maintained its gender-transformative and protection-focused programming by progressively empowering Indigenous and Afro-descendant women and female survivors of armed violence.

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