WFP Uganda Country Brief, February 2025

In Numbers

1,585,830 people assisted in February 2025

3,285 MT of food assistance distributed

USD 4.2 Million in cash-based transfers

USD 69 Million six months (Mar – Aug 2025) net funding requirements.

Operational Updates

Support to Refugees.

• In February, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to more than 1.3 million settlement-based refugees hosted in Uganda. A total of 388,912 beneficiaries received 2,710 metric tons (MT) of in-kind food assistance while 946,078 received cash-based transfers (CBT) worth USD 4.2 million.
• Maternal child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme and targeted supplementary feeding programme (TSFP) were also implemented to manage and prevent acute malnutrition in 13 refugee settlements across Uganda where close to 9,955 children under five years received nutrition support to supplement moderate acute malnutrition. Under the MCHN programme, 82,525 children under the age of five as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls received 248 MT of specialized nutritious foods (SNFs) to manage malnutrition.

Financial Literacy and Scaling up of Digital Cash-Based Transfers (CBT):

• In February, WFP continued digitizing cash-based transfers (CBT) in refugee settlements to improve cost efficiency and effectiveness. By the end of the month, 71 percent of refugees receiving cash assistance used digital delivery. Of these, 23 percent received support via mobile money, while 48 percent used agency banking. Meanwhile, 29 percent still received cash in hand. WFP plans to transition all beneficiaries to digital payments by year-end.

Social Protection and Systems Capacity Strengthening

• In February, WFP disbursed USD 483,621 as savings to 19,428 Nutri-Cash beneficiaries, empowering them to support their livelihoods and reinforcing the long-term sustainability of the programme’s benefits. Saving groups remain actively engaged in selecting viable enterprises for joint ventures, ensuring the continued growth and stability of their financial gains.
• As the child sensitive social protection programme approaches its conclusion, WFP is implementing its exit plan through extensive stakeholder engagement. This includes delegating key roles and responsibilities, training in village, loan and saving groups, conducting joint monitoring activities, and disseminating comprehensive operational manuals to ensure a seamless transition and sustained impact.

School Meals Programme

• WFP and the Government of Uganda launched the second phase of the Karamoja feeds Karamoja programme -an initiative to enable smallholder farmers in Karamoja supply food to WFP meant for the school feeding programme- the agreement was signed between WFP and the Government where Government will provide financial support to the school meals programme in Karamoja for the next 5 years.