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Annual Report 2021 14 Global Development Group

A Lifeline During Crisis and Conflict

Karima, Bagdhad and Fatooma live in a basic IDP settlement in
Yemen. They were forced to flee with their mother after airstrikes
killed their father and destroyed their home. Today they are solely
dependent on WFP assistance for food supplies, having no other
source of income or food supplies. (Image: WFP/Annabel Symington).

Global Development Group is honoured to partner with World distributions to support the nutrition of school-age children
Food Programme (WFP) for J807N WFP Emergency Relief throughout the lengthy lockdown period.
Projects. In 2020, our partnership with WFP contributed to
SYRIA
their overall relief programs in crisis-affected nations Yemen
and Syria. 2020 was a devastating year in Syria, where the food security
situation deteriorated to levels not previously seen in more
YEMEN
than nine years of crippling crisis. Continued conflict,
In Yemen, conflict dragged on for a sixth year in 2020, further economic collapse, and the COVID-19 pandemic further
exacerbating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. This was depleted the already eroded livelihood of the Syrian people;
compounded with the global COVID-19 pandemic, severe most of whom now live in poverty. Over the course of 2020,
economic deterioration, unprecedented floods and the drastic food prices more than tripled. By late 2020 close to 60% of the
erosion of purchasing power. As a result, around 80 percent population, 12.4 million people, were food insecure.
of the population – 24 million people – continued to need
Overall, WFP successfully reached 5.7 million girls and boys,
humanitarian assistance or protection, while food security
women and men across its activities in Syria in 2020. Internally
worsened and pockets of famine-like conditions emerged.
displaced persons remained the largest beneficiary group, and
In response to this, WFP provided general food assistance to women and girls represented the majority of those assisted by
13 million total beneficiaries and transferred 1,060,278 mt WFP, considering their higher vulnerability to food insecurity.
total actual food. When schools closed in March 2020, WFP
adapted its school feeding program by creating take-home