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In Numbers
817 mt of food assistance distributed*
USD 1.80 million cash-based transfers made*
USD 44.6 million six months (March – August 2025) net funding requirements, representing 49 percent of total needs
211,173 people assisted* In February 2025
Operational Updates
In February, WFP reached over 170,000 Colombians (including returnees, host communities and internally displaced persons - IDPs) and 40,000 migrants across 17 departments.
Some of the activities to highlight include:
• Emergency Response - WFP assisted over 68,000 victims of conflict and 23,000 people affected by weather-related events. WFP operations in response to violence and weather events continued in Chocó, La Guajira, and Norte de Santander. In Chocó, WFP reached 59,000 people, finalizing the three-months intervention in affected municipalities affected by confinement and mass internal displacement. In Norte de Santander, WFP reached about 7,000 new beneficiaries affected by displacement and confinement in three municipalities. WFP further reached 2,200 people through early recovery of livelihoods in six departments.
• Livelihoods and Resilience – WFP´s feeding peace fund launched two calls for proposals to select productive initiatives for 11 municipalities in Antioquia, Cesar, Cundinamarca, La Guajira, and Norte de Santander, in collaboration with the Colombian government. In the process, WFP selected 24 organizations out of 91 applications. As of February, 12 entities are in the implementation phase, while the other 12 are in formalizing preparation process. These initiatives will benefit a total of 1,341 people, of whom 49% are peace signatories.
• Migration – In February, WFP reached 9,400 new beneficiaries in the migration response. WFP closed the community kitchen in the Temporary Migrant Care Center in Norte de Santander due to the closure of several interventions by other humanitarian actors. Additionally, the Reina Isabella Community Kitchen in Nariño was moved to Las Lajas Ipiales due to closure of humanitarian spaces.
• School Feeding – WFP started the implementation of its School Feeding Programme in La Guajira for 2025, reaching more than 65,000 children (including 5,722 migrants) in 13 municipalities. The operation will last until the end of the school year in November.
• The Mobile Units project, coordinated with the National Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), reached 28,300 people affected by conflict and weather-related events. 57% of the beneficiaries were children. 18 Mobile Units from different regions of the country were mobilized to Norte de Santander to support the humanitarian response to the emergency in the Catatumbo region, providing comprehensive care to 6,950 victims of forced displacement mostly children.