The Hunger Project’s 2024 Annual Report highlights the impact of our work in partnership with 12.8 million people across 10,081 communities.

In nine countries in Africa, The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy mobilizes clusters of rural villages into “epicenters,” which band together 5,000–15,000 people to carry out community-led, integrated strategies to meet basic needs. Community members at epicenters create and run their own development programs across sectors such as food security, nutrition, health, education, women’s leadership, income-generation, and climate resilience.

At the end of 2024, 86 epicenters had declared self-reliance after a multi-year partnership with The Hunger Project, meaning over 1.3 million community partners are now living in a self-reliant community where they have the confidence, capacity, and skills to act as agents of their own development and continue to make sustainable progress. In addition to epicenter sites, special project sites across Africa also utilize The Hunger Project’s core methodologies in community mobilization and leadership development for sector-specific outcomes, such as community reforestation, maternal and childhood nutrition, meaningful access to the internet, inclusion of people with disabilities, water and sanitation, land conservation, and agricultural entrepreneurship.

In India, The Hunger Project works with empowered women elected to local government positions to meet the development needs of their communities. Across multiple states, The Hunger Project supports the leadership development of women leaders in local village councils (panchayats), each of them champions for gender equality, social and economic development, and nutrition. The Hunger Project’s Adolescent Girls Program teaches girls life skills, their rights, and the importance of active citizenship.

In Bangladesh, The Hunger Project mobilizes youth, women leaders, and local government representatives across more than 8,000 communities to support peaceful, effective local democracy and meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Community partners design and implement holistic, bottom-up strategies focused on nutrition, active citizenship, peace, income-generation, climate resilience, and girls’ rights in order to achieve the SDGs in their communities.

In Mexico, The Hunger Project supports community-led development initiatives, focusing on the people who are the most marginalized, particularly Indigenous women. Communities work to achieve their community-owned visions, including efforts to ignite sustainable local entrepreneurship, build effective relationships with local government, empower women and girls with leadership development and support networks, indigenize food systems, promote economic resilience, and ensure food security and nutrition.

In Peru, The Hunger Project works with a partner organization, CHIRAPAQ, a coalition of Indigenous organizations promoting access to opportunities, the exercise of women’s and Indigenous rights, and collaboration with local and regional governments.

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