As Guinea continues to grapple with significant socioeconomic challenges, more than half of its population is experiencing unprecedented levels of poverty and food insecurity, along with alarming rates of malnutrition. 

Over 21.8 percent of households struggle with food insecurity, and children under 5 are particularly vulnerable, with 6.1 percent suffering from global acute malnutrition, 24.4 percent from stunting (impaired growth due to malnutrition) and 12 percent being underweight. Smallholder farmers and women in rural areas face heightened vulnerability due to limited access to essential resources and opportunities.

WFP provides food assistance and cash transfers to meet people’s immediate needs.

In 2023, WFP provided vital nutritious food to over 1 million vulnerable people, including schoolchildren, and pregnant or breastfeeding women. This work improves food security and nutrition, reducing maternal malnutrition, mortality risk, low birth weight rates, and malnutrition among children under 5. Additionally, it improves school attendance and retention rates, encouraging parents to send their children, especially girls, to school.

To support the sustainability of our programmes and ensure national ownership, WFP supports the Government of Guinea, providing institutional technical, material and financial support. WFP is an avid advocate for a National School Feeding Programme to improve literacy rates in the country, with only 32 percent of the adult population able to read and write, and 22 percent of primary school-aged children out of school.
 

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What the World Food Programme is doing in Guinea

Emergency

WFP provides food assistance and cash transfers to meet the immediate needs of people affected by crises. Over 900,650 of crisis-affected individuals, 49 percent of whom were women, received assistance in the form of food aid and/or substance abuse treatment as part of the emergency intervention in 2023. Additionally, US$335,472 was distributed to emergency-affected populations in the form of cash transfers, to meet their basic food and nutritional needs.

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Partners and donors

Achieving Zero Hunger is the work of many. Our work in Guinea is made possible by the support and collaboration of our partners and donors, including:
United States Japan France Korea World Bank

Operations in Guinea

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Office

Cameroun, Face Cour Suprême, Conakry, République de Guinée
Conakry
Guinea

Phone
+224 626 26 27 77
Email
WFP.Conakry@wfp.org
For media inquiries
WFP.Conakry@wfp.org
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