World Vision MEER Regional Brief: FY24 (between 1 October 2023 - 1 October 2024)

World Vision has been serving the most vulnerable children across the Middle East and Eastern Europe (MEER) region for the past 50 years. We are leading the way in highly fragile contexts to ensure the most vulnerable children in the hardest-toreach places are also supported, including children on the move and those affected by armed conflict. We currently work alongside local partners responding to humanitarian crises and operating long-term development projects that address gender disparity and other contextual issues in 15 countries across the region, including Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Iraq, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Türkiye, and Afghanistan.

 Due to ongoing conflicts, violence, global hunger, and climate change, humanitarian needs continue to spike, with more people than ever – 70.6 million in just the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe – dependent on humanitarian aid in 2024. In response, World Vision is prioritising cash and food assistance, food security, and livelihoods programming in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen under the organisation’s Global Hunger Response. We are also working towards ending child hunger and improving child malnutrition through our global ENOUGH campaign. 

We cannot do it alone. Empowering local actors to lead the response, recovery, rehabilitation and development in their countries is a top priority, and building their capacity supports us to achieve our goals of ensuring every girl and boy has what they need to live a life in all its fullness. We partner with supporters, governments, local communities, faith leaders, civil society, faith-based organisations to support the needs of children and their families throughout the region