In this issue of the West & Central Africa Newsletter, we highlight the remarkable progress accomplished across our programmes throughout the year 2024, looking back on the trials and celebrating the triumphs.

Urgent aid is required to assist more than 100 000 impacted by an intense tropical Cyclone Chido in Mozambique destroying houses and adding pressure to an already fragile context battling with conflict.

Tigana Chileshe writes that as people across Southern Africa approach Christmas, their immediate focus is finding food, after failed crops and drought

This review supports World Vision’s Resilience Framework, highlighting key themes like conflict, COVID-19, climate change, and the HDP nexus in building resilient systems.

A Platform of Humanitarian Partners comprising humanitarian organizations World Vision Mozambique, Plan International, ADRA, and CARE, is aiming to assist more than 100,000 people stricken by Cyclone Chido in northern Mozambique.

This paper outlines World Vision’s multisectoral resilience framework, focusing on agri-food, health, and social protection systems in shaping resilience outcomes.

SitRep 1029: Central African Republic Sustained Humanitarian Response Efforts Update

World Vision’s climate action policy, response, and recommendations to support vulnerable children, families, and communities globally.

Anticipatory action (AA) is defined as acting ahead of predicted hazardous events to prevent or reduce expected acute humanitarian impacts before they fully unfold. Emerging evidence suggests that AA – which focuses on providing assistance to people at risk – has the potential to deliver effective results, reduce costs and maintain the dignity of disaster-affected people more effectively than conventional humanitarian response.