Uganda

Crisis response

Uganda hosts more than 2 million refugees, with over 147,000 registered in 2025, including 75,000 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. New arrivals get hot meals at transit centres, then cash or food once registered. WFP rations by vulnerability: new arrivals receive a full US12ドル/person/month, the most vulnerable 60 percent, moderately vulnerable 30 percent, and support to the least vulnerable is phased out. Declining funding cut those assisted in 2025 from 1.6 million to about 663,000, raising food insecurity. Since May 2026, WFP has also supported Uganda's Bundibugyo Ebola response — providing meals plus logistics for WHO and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nutrition

WFP is shifting from treating malnutrition to preventing it. This approach empowers communities to produce and consume food that is safe, nutritious and affordable, improves the quality of nutrition services, and encourages healthier nutrition practices. At subnational level, WFP is strengthening Government capacity to build malnutrition prevention into routine health services, working through health care workers and community health structures such as village health teams and care groups. In 2025, WFP provided malnutrition prevention or treatment support to over 250,000 children and to pregnant and breastfeeding women.

School meals

WFP provides a daily hot meal to 200,000 students in 284 schools in Karamoja. WFP's Home-Grown School Feeding model provides local, nutritious meals while giving smallholder farmers a market: in 2025, WFP bought 2,200 metric tons of maize and beans, through contracts worth US1ドル.4 million, with eight Karamoja cooperatives. To improve diets, students at 283 schools grow orange-fleshed sweet potatoes in school gardens and take cuttings home. In 2025 WFP also built or rehabilitated 70 school kitchens with energy-saving stoves, and helped the Government join the School Meals Coalition and develop Uganda's first National School Feeding Policy.

Resilience and livelihoods

WFP works with communities affected by climate shocks to build household and community assets, introduce climate-resilient and nutritious crops, manage water sustainably and diversify livelihoods. WFP's Agriculture and Market Support programme helps smallholder farmers cut post-harvest losses, add value to their produce and reach markets, and aims to create employment opportunities for young people, particularly young women. In 2025, WFP supported 76,600 smallholder farmers (63 percent women), while our self-reliance model transitioned 50,000 people. Ahead of the forecast 2026 El Niño, WFP is scaling up anticipatory action and promoting climate-smart agricultural practices to protect harvests before shocks hit.

Social protection

The Government has made strides in addressing poverty and vulnerability, but the scope and coverage of social protection remain limited despite increasing needs. With the Government and sister UN agencies, WFP runs two programmes aimed at strengthening national and sub-national systems: the Integrated Social Protection Programme, which enables the delivery of nutrition-sensitive social transfers to vulnerable populations, and Pro-Resilience Action, which strengthens institutions' capacity to prepare for and respond to shocks. With the Government and FAO, WFP shared early warning information with 1.3 million people in 2025, so they could act ahead of potential droughts and floods.

Supply chain

WFP provides logistics services to the humanitarian community in Uganda and neighbouring countries. WFP maintains a satellite hub in the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot network, pre-positioning emergency relief items for regional responses. In 2025, WFP delivered 55,000 metric tons of food to more than 300 locations across Uganda and moved 26,000 metric tons of humanitarian cargo – 815 truckloads worth US3ドル.2 million — to Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia. WFP has also provided logistics support to the Government-led Ebola and Mpox responses, working with WHO and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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