Peru

In 2022, Action Against Hunger continued its humanitarian response in Peru, supporting 24,642 migrants and refugees and (as part of our localisation agenda) working in collaboration with local actors, developing activities in collaboration with local shelter management bodies, soup kitchens, and health workers.

We also worked closely with actors such as the Ombudsman’s Office, the Awajun Autonomous Territorial Government, and various Peruvian and Venezuelan civil society organisations, providing technical assistance and institutional strengthening activities, as well as signing agreements to jointly address the situation of Venezuelan refugees in Peru.

This year Action Against Hunger implemented cash transfer programmes to help cover the food, health, hygiene, and employment needs of 12,136 people. Our food security and livelihoods programme in the Andean areas strengthened the capacity for agricultural production and marketing in rural locations and supported the creation of 39 agricultural enterprises. We also promoted the creation of commercial interconnections of urban hotel and catering networks, favouring the economic reactivation of restaurants and markets in Metropolitan Lima with associations of agricultural producers in the department of Cusco.

To help migrant and refugee women in Lima to overcome the barriers to accessing work, we set up child-friendly spaces in shelters and ran activities focused on early child development and nutrition, which allowed almost 240 children and adolescents to have a safe environment and professional care while their mothers worked or sought work. Analysis showed an increase of 28–70 per cent in access to employment for these women, and an increase of 26.3 per cent in the salaries of mothers who were already working at the beginning of the project.

Action Against Hunger also participated in a baseline study on the health, sexual and reproductive health needs of migrants and refugees in Lima and produced several studies, including on water service models in rural areas; multisectoral analyses on food and nutrition security in times of crisis; and qualitative surveys on water, sanitation, and hygiene among migrant and refugee populations. Articles on food insecurity in the Venezuelan migrant population in Peru during the Covid-19 pandemic were also published in specialist nutrition journals and in Revista 17.