In Nigeria, over 27.2 million people nationwide faced severe food insecurity in 2025, a number projected to grow to 34.7 million in 2026. Driven by insecurity, climate shocks, and high cost of living, the nutrition crisis in northern Nigeria in particular was at its most severe in 15 years, with nearly 6.4 million children under 5 years suffering from acute malnutrition.

Against a backdrop of global funding cuts and suspensions of UN and NGO projects, Action Against Hunger delivered emergency, recovery, and development programmes in Borno, Yobe, Sokoto, Adamawa and Jigawa states and continued to support the prevention and treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in health facilities and communities.

Caregivers were reached with skilled maternal, infant, and young child nutrition counselling and MHPSS support, while our buffer stock programme for ready-to-use therapeutic food expanded to reach more partners in northeast and northwest Nigeria with lifesaving nutrition.

We supported 83 health facilities with essential health services, safe deliveries, deployment of health workers, empowering community volunteers, psychological first aid, peer-to-peer support, awareness, and counselling. We also provided food and multipurpose cash assistance, training, and start-up grants, and social protection to vulnerable households.

WASH was another continued focus; we constructed and rehabilitated water points and sanitation facilities and promoted improved hygiene practices.

Our rapid response mechanism enabled provision of emergency shelter, non-food items, hygiene kits and WASH services among newly displaced and disaster-affected people, in addition to responding to numerous disease outbreaks like measles and acute watery diarrhoea. Through deliberate and coordinated international and national advocacy efforts, we met the needs of vulnerable communities in Nigeria, and ensured that the worsening food and nutrition crisis remained high on donor and policy agendas.

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