SDG 2.1: End Hunger
This knowledge page creates an open platform for those working to end hunger in line with the SDG2 Hub's 2020 policy priority for SDG2.1.
Policy priority: Funding for current emergencies, highlighting links to climate and conflict.
Audience: Donor countries
Role of Hub: Amplify and share messages as needed; support lobbying at identified moments through partners
Potential for impact: Raise awareness around key emerges and support sourcing of sufficient funding commitments for response.
This page will be updated regularly with further updates, news, resources and case studies.
Updates & moments
- 2020 SOFI report - expected to be released alongside HLPF in July in New York
- UNGA 2020
- UN Food Systems Summit 2021 – TBC
Current WFP emergencies include:
- Democratic Republic of Congo – find latest updates here.
- North Eastern Nigeria – find latest updates here.
- Sahel – find latest updates here.
- South Sudan – find latest updates here.
- Syria – find latest updates here.
- Yemen – find latest updates here.
News
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Interview with Geeta Bandi-Philips, WFP Head of Global Advocacy
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HungerMap LIVE: a tool for timely action on food insecurity (pictured here)
Resources
- WFP Global Hotspots Report 2020 (Jan 2020)
- Global Hunger Index 2019 (Oct 2019)
- SOFI 2019 (July 2019)
- FAO's Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators (July 2019)
- 2019 Hunger & conflict factsheet (June 2019)
- Global Report on Food Crises 2019 (Apr. 2019)
- Cost of a Plate of Food 2018
Social media tools
Case studies
School feeding programme for Lebanese & Syrian refugee children
The World Food Programme partnered with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) to deliver healthy school snacks and classes on good nutrition. Students in 39 double shift primary schools receive a mix of fresh fruit, milk and baked peanuts - all products from Lebanon.
It's impacts:
- Working with schools in vulnerable areas, the daily snack pack is an incentive to improve children's access and retention in school, improve a child's concentration as well as improve nutritional outcomes with dietary diversity.
- The monthly nutrition education sessions by school health educators introduce importance of health eating and physical activity, among other nutrition topics. Health and nutrition summer camps were most recently launched in six schools with 1,010 children participating in one wave.
- By April 2019, five million school snacks had been distributed across Lebanon while schools saw a decline in absenteeism.
Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson
SDG2.1: End Hunger in the SDGs
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.