The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development affirms countries’ resolve to end poverty and hunger, reduce inequality, build peaceful societies, stimulate environmentally sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and protect human rights.
However, global upheavals such as the COVID-19 pandemic have limited and even reversed progress on some of these aims. This puts global efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda in jeopardy.
Chronic hunger has been on the rise since 2014.
WFP is fully committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The organization brings strengths and capabilities to United Nations system efforts to help countries respond to the urgent needs of those furthest behind and achieve the SDGs – keeping people, the planet, prosperity, peace and partnership at the centre.
The vision for 2030 underlying WFP’s Strategic Plan for 2022–2025 is that:
The Strategic Plan Results Framework explained
The Strategic Plan Results Framework details the components required to make WFP's vision a reality.
Realizing WFP's vision depends on achieving five outcomes, which are the product of a wide variety of activities. These activities are guided by cross-cutting priorities and empowered by enablers.
WFP's vision involves contributing to five outcomes:
Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 are relevant to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and encompass WFP’s humanitarian, development and peace work, from strengthening local economies to building long-term resilience and prosperity.
Saving lives in emergencies remains our highest priority. WFP will maintain a laser-sharp focus on its emergency response capability, strengthening and improving its efficiency and effectiveness by systematically responding to emergencies at the right time, with the right people and skill sets and in the right manner. Activities in emergencies include food and cash transfers that restore access to food, emergency nutrition services to prevent and treat malnutrition, and targeted feeding programmes through schools and health centres. WFP also involves disaster-affected populations in work activities that help to restore key assets and basic infrastructure.
Humanitarian action alone cannot eradicate hunger. Unless structural vulnerabilities are also addressed, shocks and stressors will continue to generate urgent needs and increase hunger and malnutrition. WFP will therefore work with its partners to help address structural vulnerabilities and build human capital. We will do this by expanding services to address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition, providing nutritious school meals and strengthening social protection.
Building human capital and addressing other structural vulnerabilities lays the foundations for improved livelihoods. These, in turn, protect people from the cascading risks caused by the global climate emergency and other shocks and stressors – making sustainable solutions to hunger and malnutrition possible. Working with national counterparts and other partners, WFP’s risk-informed and integrated programmes will improve and adapt the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people in rural and urban areas.
Outcomes 4 and 5 are relevant to SDG 17 and contribute to enabling governments and humanitarian and development actors to reach the SDGs.
Alongside its programme delivery, WFP seeks to strengthen national and local capacity and work through the country systems, presenting opportunities for scale, impact and sustainability. WFP will use its operational presence, partnerships and technical skills to strengthen national emergency preparedness and response systems, food systems and social protection systems.
Increasingly complex operational settings and unprecedented needs mean cooperation is more important than ever. WFP will expand its provision of services, both mandated and on demand, to support its partners’ humanitarian and development activities. In particular, WFP will increase its efforts to provide critical services to humanitarian partners during crises.
Additionally, WFP will continue to contribute to advocacy and partnerships
Taking advantage of its unique international standing, extensive field presence, global reach and credibility, and as a contribution towards all outcomes, WFP will continue to advocate on behalf of the most vulnerable people.
Encouraged by the Nobel Peace Prize award in 2020, WFP will engage in humanitarian diplomacy and peace advocacy, drawing upon the knowledge that comes from its operational engagement with conflict-affected people around the world.
WFP empowers affected populations to express their views, preferences and priorities. This includes identifying barriers to accessing food and nutrition assistance, and the risks facing affected populations, as well as strengthening WFP’s targeting by making it more inclusive and accessible.
WFP supports equal opportunities, access to resources and a voice in decision making for all. WFP reviews any gender and age differences in its humanitarian responses, involves countries in its programmes to transform unequal gender relations, and provides technical expertise on gender to country offices.
WFP reduces malnutrition and improves diets by integrating nutrition objectives and activities across its portfolio. Achieving this requires investments in programmes, operations and platforms that tackle both the underlying and immediate drivers of poor diets and malnutrition, while supporting sustained improvements.
WFP is committed to reducing the negative impact of its operations on the environment, people and communities. Environmental and social safeguards feature throughout our programmes, to systematically identify environmental and social risks.
