Attachments
In Numbers
915 MT of food assistance distributed*
USD 1.99 million cash-based transfers made*
USD 47.6 million six months (April – September 2025) net funding requirements, representing 52 percent of total needs
235,514 people assisted* In March 2025
Operational Updates
48% 52% In March, WFP reached over 194,000 Colombians (including returnees, host communities, and internally displaced persons - IDPs) and 41,000 migrants across 16 departments. Some of the activities to highlight include:
• Emergency Response - WFP assisted over 55,000 victims of conflict and 40,000 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 about 37,000 people, expanding the three-month interventions in municipalities affected by confinement and mass internal displacement. In Norte de Santander, WFP reached about 12,600 new beneficiaries affected by displacement and confinement in five municipalities. WFP reached 33,000 disaster-affected people in La Guajira through in-kind food assistance.
• Livelihoods and Resilience – WFP’s early recovery activities reached more than 1,900 people in seven departments through capacity strengthening of community livelihoods, complemented with food assistance. Furthermore, WFP in conjunction with the Colombian the Ministry of Mines and Energy, started a mining reconversion project through sustainable development initiatives in Cauca. The project aims to create job opportunities and food security for 70 miners and their families. Once the assessment is completed, the implementation is expected to begin between June and November.
• Migration – In March WFP reached about 47,400 beneficiaries as part of the migration and socioeconomic integration response of which 34 percent received cash-based transfers. The operation reduced the distribution of food kits in Tolima due to farmers strikes during the first and second weeks of March. WFP also closed a community kitchen in Arauca and a food kit distribution point in Casanare due to decreased migration flows in the region.
• School Feeding – WFP reached more than 73,000 children (including 6,720 migrants) in 13 municipalities.
• The Mobile Units project, coordinated with the National Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), reached 22,583 people affected by conflict and weather-related events. 58% of the beneficiaries were children. Expanded coverage of mobile units in Norte de Santander continued to support the humanitarian response to the emergency in the Catatumbo region through psychological and nutritional support to displaced communities.
• Nutrition – WFP provided food vouchers to 309 families with children at risk of malnutrition in Chocó. The final distribution will be delivered next month.