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

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

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

English

71 p.

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During the reporting period, WFP Colombia reached 1.3 million people in need, 99.6 percent of its target. An average of 380,000 people per month (48% women and girls) benefitted from WFP’s operations through a broad range of activities. These ranged from emergency assistance in the form of cash-based transfers to in-kind food, school feeding, hot meals served in community kitchens and food rations for migrants in transit, socio-economic integration, support of livelihoods and early recovery, resilience building, social protection, as well as the promotion of innovative approaches to food security and nutrition. During the second quarter of the year, when road blockages related to the protests and social unrest resulted in access challenges and supply chain disruptions, WFP reverted to airlifts of life-saving emergency assistance to affected areas and negotiated humanitarian corridors. This allowed WFP to continue providing lifesaving support to people cut off from any assistance, particularly in Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Nariño, Chocó, and Antioquia. In Colombia, WFP is working with the Government and other partners along the nexus linking humanitarian assistance, development and peacebuilding. A focus on capacity strengthening promotes the sustainability of results achieved in the medium and long term. This approach is well reflected in the new country strategic plan launched in March 2021, which was classified with a Gender and Age Marker score of 4 in recognition of the country office's strong commitment to promote gender equality, mainstream gender-sensitive analyses and approaches throughout its activities, and close gender gaps in partnership with local organizations. Together with partners, WFP has continued to provide leadership to interagency mechanisms on cash-based transfers, food security and nutrition, and logistics. WFP is leading a project on the deduplication of beneficiaries amongst humanitarian organizations through a digital solution known as the Unique Identifier.

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