Annual Country Report 2019: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Annual Country Report 2019: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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60 p.

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In 2019, humanitarian needs in Colombia increased across all fronts: Venezuelan migrants in the country reached 1.6 million and some 500,000 Colombians also returned from Venezuela affected by an upsurge in violence, becoming displaced or confined to their communities and; approximately 230,000 people were affected by disasters. Faced with this spike in needs, WFP surpassed its assistance plans of 1 million people, effectively reaching over 1.5 million. Among these, WFP provided life-saving food assistance to 110,000 people affected by violence and disasters across the country, including women victims of gender-based violence. In 2019, WFP saw significant achievements in many programmatic aspects, the set-up of new assistance modalities and increased collaboration with the Colombian Government to support strengthened social protection systems in emergency contexts, such as school feeding. WFP closely worked with the Ministry of Education to support migrant children with school feeding in 2019, also providing technical assistance to key actors along the way, and reaching over 20,000 children during the year, mostly migrants and returnees. In La Guajira, one of the poorest departments, WFP also supported the National School Feeding Programme, reaching over 68,000 Colombian children. WFP’s expertise has helped build stronger capacities for school feeding management and provided evidence-based research and advice in support of the upcoming national School Feeding policy. Through various initiatives, nearly 5,500 smallholder farmers received food assistance and capacity strengthening for the set-up and improvement of small businesses, including some 3,300 former guerrilla combatants, a third of which are women.

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