Emergency
Ukraine
- 1 in 5
- Ukrainian families are estimated to be food insecure
- 2 million
- people supported every month with food and cash
- US$241 million
- needed to sustain WFP operations until December 2024
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The war in Ukraine continues to displace people, damage infrastructure, disrupt supply chains and hold back the country’s economy. One in five households is estimated to be food-insecure, rising to one in two in some areas of the east and south.
Almost 3.4 million Ukrainians are internally displaced and nearly 6 million are living as refugees in Europe. Many of those who remain have lost their livelihoods, especially in areas close to the front lines. Those who returned are struggling to rebuild their lives, having run out of money or found their homes reduced to rubble.
The war and the energy crisis – the latter resulting from attacks on infrastructure – are disrupting food production and commercial supply chains inside the country, leaving many communities in the east and south with no reliable access to food.
What the World Food Programme is doing to respond to the Ukraine emergency
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Cash assistance
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WFP is prioritizing cash assistance wherever banks are functioning and food is easily accessible. Cash assistance gives people the freedom to meet their essential needs as they choose, and stimulates local economies. WFP has distributed more than US$550 million in cash assistance to over 3 million people since March 2022.
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Food assistance
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WFP delivers food kits and ready-to-eat food rations, primarily in hard-to-reach and frontline areas under intense fighting, where commercial supply lines are disrupted and access to food is unreliable. Food kits typically comprise wheat flour or rice, pasta, sunflower oil, sugar and canned beans or meat. WFP buys almost all of this food inside Ukraine and works with local bakeries to deliver bread.
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Support to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova
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WFP serves daily hot meals to 2,700 Ukrainian refugees living in refugee accommodation centres in Moldova, and provides cash assistance every month to over 5,500 Moldovan families hosting Ukrainian refugees.
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Emergency telecommunications and logistics
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On behalf of the United Nations, WFP coordinates humanitarian logistics and telecommunications services in Ukraine as the lead organisation of the Logistics Cluster and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster. The Logistics Cluster consolidates and shares information on logistics services, facilities and access constraints, provides road transport, cargo delivery and storage services, and supports cargo consolidation and planning for humanitarian convoys.
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Demining and food systems
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WFP is working with FAO, the Government and the Fondation Suisse de Deminage to clear mines from farm land and small plots, and thereby help restore rural livelihoods, boost agricultural production, and phase out the need for food assistance among thousands of families. The initial phase of the project is in the Kharkiv region. WFP continues to scale up its procurement from Ukrainian food producers, both for food assistance inside the country and for humanitarian operations globally.