The world today is more complex and volatile than it was five years ago. At that time, governments had just adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, affirming their resolve to end poverty and hunger, reduce inequality, build peaceful societies, stimulate environmentally sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and protect human rights.
Yet, despite all good intentions, progress has been limited and, in some ways, reversed with the compounding impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 Sustainable Development Goals (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 achieve WFP's vision.
Realizing WFP's vision depends on five outcomes. Different outputs, resulting from a range of activities guided by cross-cutting priorities and empowered by enablers, lead towards these outcomes.
Keep reading to learn more about the key components that contribute to the results framework structure and make up WFP's Strategic Plan.
WFP's vision involves contributing to five outcomes:
Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 are relevant to SDG 2 and encompass WFP's work across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, from saving lives to changing lives.
WFP will maintain laser-sharp focus on emergency response capability, with saving lives in emergencies its highest priority. WFP will strengthen and improve 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 engages disaster-affected populations in work activities that help to restore key assets and basic infrastructure.
Humanitarian action alone is not sufficient to reach zero hunger. Shocks and stressors will continue to generate urgent need, and more severe hunger and malnutrition, unless structural vulnerabilities are also addressed. Leaving no one behind requires that WFP exploit its versatility and work with its partners to save and change lives. Through scaling up services to address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition, providing nutritious school meals and strengthening social protection, WFP contributes to addressing structural vulnerabilities and building human capital.
Building human capital and addressing other structural vulnerabilities lay the ground for improved livelihoods. These, in turn, protect people from the cascading risks caused by the global climate crisis and other shocks and stressors – opening a pathway to sustainable solutions to hunger and malnutrition. Working closely with national counterparts and other partners, WFP’s risk-informed and integrated programmes will contribute to improving and adapting 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.
Saving lives and changing lives is not only about what WFP does but also how it is done. Alongside its programme delivery, WFP seeks to strengthen national and local capacity and work through country systems, presenting opportunities for scale, impact and sustainability. WFP will leverage 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 require multisectoral and multistakeholder responses. WFP will enhance and broaden its capacity to serve as a partner of choice by supporting others in their efforts to deliver on their mandates. WFP will provide critical services to humanitarian partners where gaps exist during crises, while strengthening relevant national capacity and systems. WFP will further expand its provision of services, both mandated and on-demand, to facilitate the full range and value of its partners’ humanitarian and development activities.
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 those furthest behind.
Encouraged by the Nobel Peace Prize award, 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 will continue to support global stakeholders in collective action to achieve the SDGs.
WFP will empower affected populations to express their views, preferences and priorities.
WFP will focus on identifying barriers to access to food and nutrition assistance, as well as the risks to which affected populations are exposed. WFP will strengthen its targeting by making it more inclusive and accessible.
WFP seeks to make progress towards all people having equal opportunity, access to resources and a voice in decision making.
WFP will mainstream gender by applying the gender and age marker, involving countries in its programmes that help transform unequal gender relations and providing gender technical expertise to country offices.
WFP aims to help reduce malnutrition and improve diets by integrating nutrition objectives and activities across its portfolio.
Achieving this will rely on investing in programmes, operations and platforms that tackle both underlying and immediate drivers of poor diets and malnutrition, and that support sustained improvements.
WFP is committed to reducing the negative impact of its operations on the environment, people and communities.
Environmental and social safeguards will feature throughout our programmes to systematically identify environmental and social risks.
