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USD 557 million is urgently needed until the end of the year for lifesaving food assistance in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu.
6.7 million people in DRC are displaced and 80 percent of them are experiencing a deepening acute hunger and malnutrition crisis. In Eastern DRC, an area engulfed by conflict and insecurity, the situation is particularly dire, affecting not only displaced people, but a large part of the population. Resources are desperately low to meet the extremely high humanitarian needs in this part of the country.
3.6 million people in Eastern DRC require WFP’s assistance. However, the resources are not available to meet all the needs of this population.
WFP is on the ground and scaling up its support, but the sky-rocketing needs are stretching an already severely underfunded and ignored operation.
In view of current resources, WFP is prioritising cash assistance in July, August and September.
Each month, WFP is targeting 1.6 million people (1.1 million people with cash assistance).
Under its scale-up plan, WFP aims to progressively increase the number of people reached with food and cash assistance over the next six months.
With current resources, WFP is already struggling to meet the needs of the 1.6 million people it is targeting each month up to September. If additional resources are not received, WFP will be forced to drastically reduce the number of people it can assist from October.
WFP is urgently appealing for USD 557 million to meet the most pressing food assistance needs in eastern DRC from August to December 2023.
Predictable and flexible resources are required to meet the fast-changing needs. This will allow WFP to fully implement the scale-up to avoid dire consequences for the millions of people in need.