WFP Country Strategic Plan 2024 Malawi - Allocation of SDC Funding to El Nino Response


Against historic levels of food insecurity due to conflicts, climate change and COVID-19, Switzerland annually supports about 40 SDC priority countries operations of the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide humanitarian and development assistance. It funds WFP Country Strategy Plans, incorporating all programmes or projects, based on affected population needs and potential synergies with other local partners, especially national governments and civil society.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Malawi
Humanitarian Assistance & DRR
Emergency food assistance
01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024
CHF  500’000
Background

Founded in 1961, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency saving and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working to improve nutrition and build resilience. Against the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, climate shocks and an unprecedented number of violent conflicts since World War 2, food insecurity is reaching record levels on all continents.

Early 2024, up to 309 million people are acutely food insecure or at high risk, against 149 million people in November 2019; famine-like conditions are a real possibility today for 42.3 million people in 45 countries facing emergency or catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.

After the major corporate scale-ups due to COVID-19 in the world's hunger hotspots (Afghanistan, Yemen, DR Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Haiti, OPTs, Ukraine, Lebanon, South Sudan and Sudan), WFP is downsizing operations and the number of beneficiaries assisted because of funding shortfalls despite increasing humanitarian needs.

Switzerland focuses its support to programmes in its own priority countries through annual contributions softly earmarked to WFP Country Strategic Plans (CSPs).

Objectives

WFP’s mission is a world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life.

The vision for 2030 underlying WFP’s strategic plan for 2022-2025 is that the world has eradicated food insecurity and malnutrition (SDG 2 - Zero Hunger) and national and global actors have achieved the SDGs (SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals).

The overall goal of WFP is providing immediate food assistance in life-threatening situations while supporting countries in ensuring no one is left behind.

Target groups Food insecure men and women worldwide.
Medium-term outcomes
  1. People are better able to meet their urgent food and nutrition needs
  2. People have better nutrition, health and education outcomes
  3. People have improved and sustainable livelihoods
  4. National programmes and systems are strengthened
  5. Humanitarian and development actors are more efficient and effective
Results

Expected results:   WFP fights hunger in 80+ least-developed and low-income countries where victims of conflicts and natural disasters, refugees, displaced people and the hungry poor face severe food shortages.


Results from previous phases:  

  • In 2023, WFP decreased operations against the lower funding; it provided assistance to 152 million people in 84 countries (52%♀; 56% >0-6 year old). It maintained efficient assistance and dignity of assisted people through delivery of USD 2.8 billion of cash-based and voucher assistance (38% of assisted people). Strengthened national social protection systems in 55 countries
  • WFP received contribution of USD 8.3 billion in 2023, against 14.1 in 2022. It realized more than USD 206 million in cost savings from its top ten efficiency gain initiatives, including through time savings
  • WFP is the laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war"
  • WFP leads or co-leads humanitarian response and provides services such as the UN Air Service (UNHAS), UN Humanitarian Response Depots network (UNHRD) as well as the three Inter-Agency Standing Committee Clusters (Logistics, Emergency Telecommunications and Food Security Cluster, with FAO)


Directorate/federal office responsible SDC
Project partners Contract partner
United Nations Organization (UNO)
  • World Food Programme


Coordination with other projects and actors WFP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan stresses the importance of synergy among UN food security bodies, particularly FAO and IFAD, as well as partnerships with international organizations, national governments, regional institutions, international finance institutions, civil society, private sector, academia, communities and individuals.
Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF    500’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    500’000 Total project since first phase Swiss budget CHF   0 Budget inclusive project partner CHF   39’000’000
Project phases Phase 10 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024   (Current phase) Phase 9 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024   (Current phase) Phase 8 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024   (Current phase) Phase 7 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 6 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 5 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 4 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 3 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 2 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active) Phase 1 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2023   (Active)