Annual Country Report 2020: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Annual Country Report 2020: Colombia. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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Activities in 2020 were significantly impacted by COVID-19, and the access challenges and socioeconomic impacts posed by it. The pandemic added to existing vulnerabilities of 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants, thousands of people forcibly displaced or confined in their communities by illegal armed groups, and the effects of a severe rainy season and a devastating hurricane. Thanks to generous donor contributions, WFP managed to reach nearly 1.6 million people, half of them women, meeting 94 percent of its annual target in 2020. WFP supported an expansion of the social protection system reaching over 38,000 Colombians and Venezuelans in extreme poverty with cash transfers and food baskets channelled through existing social programmes. WFP also continued implementing the national school feeding programme on behalf of the Government for over 77,000 children in the remote department of La Guajira. WFP’s school feeding for Venezuelan migrants doubled in comparison with 2019, supporting 42,000 children (half girls and half boys), also contributing to social protection in emergencies. WFP also focused on livelihoods, resilience, and early recovery activities: In support of national efforts for peace and stabilization after the 2016 Peace Accords, WFP continued providing capacity strengthening to 14 cooperatives led by former guerrilla combatants in the process of reintegration, benefitting nearly 2,000 of them, a third of which are women. Under its multiannual Adaptation Fund project, and despite mobility restrictions imposed due to COVID-19, WFP sustained its work with 69 indigenous communities along the Colombia-Ecuador border to build climate change adaptation capacities and improve food security and nutrition.

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