By the end of 2025, 4.4 million people, including 2.1 million internally displaced people, were in need of assistance in Burkina Faso due to humanitarian, political, and climate crises. Restricted access to land, crop losses, and rising grain prices (especially in conflict zones) left more than 2.2 million people living with crisis-level food insecurity, while over 425,000 children under the age of 5 years were at risk of acute malnutrition, including more than 110,000 severe cases.

Action Against Hunger delivered humanitarian and development assistance across the country, especially in hard to reach areas, including five mobile clinics that provided malnutrition screening, MHPSS services, and vaccination campaigns for people without access to health facilities. Meanwhile, health agents and community representatives were trained in malnutrition screening, which strengthened health centre staffing.

Meanwhile, the FRONTLINE-Rapid Response Mechanism, which has been implementedby Action Against Hunger since 2019, provided 247,140 households with food assistance, non-food item kits, and nutritional products for malnourished children. The RESAN project (France’s Programmed Food Aid) supported FSL nutrition, and income generating activities, while the VITA project (Sahel Regional Fund) was launched at the end of 2025 with neighbouring Sahelian countries to address deteriorating livelihoods, and social cohesion.

Action Against Hunger also built resilience through the Yèrètali programme (a joint venture between Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire), improving living conditions and promoting sustainable livelihoods for host communities and returnees. This year also marked the final year of the Right 2 Grow programme, which strengthened community advocacy, social accountability, and citizen monitoring of local government commitments to nutrition and WASH, leading several municipalities to include dedicated budgets for these sectors in their 2026 plans.

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