Area: East Africa

The World Food Programme (WFP) spends more than USD 745 million annually in Regional Bureau of Nairobi (RBN) countries. In 2019, the RBN region moved 1.1 million MT of food throughout East Africa. It disbursed USD 270 million in cash to 5.4 million beneficiaries in the countries covered by RBN. It procured and supplied more than 500,000 MT of food from local, regional, and global sources. These numbers increased with the inclusion of Sudan in the RBN beginning in December 2020.

This spending is vital to the humanitarian operations of the WFP. It also affects RBN economies, potentially creating large income and production impacts in the region. This study documents the “economic footprint” of WFP operations in East Africa.

You can see findings from this study here.