Attachments
In Numbers
USD 240,000 cash-based transfers made
USD 5.5 m six months (May-October 2023) net funding requirements, representing 16 percent of total*
19,582 people assisted in April 2023
*Budget Revision #05 is under review
Operational Context
Guatemala is a multicultural country with 44 percent of inhabitants self-identifying as indigenous Mayan. Despite its middle-income status, two thirds of its population lives on less than USD 2 per day, and among indigenous people, poverty averages 79 percent. Guatemala has the second highest gender inequality index in the region. Highly correlated to poverty, stunting in children aged 6-59 months is among the highest in the world and the highest in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
WFP assistance in Guatemala aims to achieve a sustainable improvement in food security and nutrition of the most vulnerable people. It is aligned to the National Plan, “K’atun: Our Guatemala 2032”, and the UN System and the Government’s joint and national plans to attain progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
As Guatemala is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change and most exposed to natural hazards in the world, WFP supports drought and flood-affected smallholder farmers to help them cope with the lean and rainy seasons, while restoring, building and diversifying their livelihoods.
WFP has been present in Guatemala since 1974, and has three field offices in Quetzaltenango, Coban and Zacapa.