Venezuela

Vulnerable people in Venezuela continue to face significant shortcomings such as access to food and in the provision of basic services, including healthcare, water provision, education, and energy supply. Social protection programmes have been affected and there are limited livelihood and income generation opportunities, especially for the most vulnerable, such as women, girls and boys, older people, people with disabilities, indigenous populations and people on the move and LGBTQ+ people.

Mixed migration flows continue, with vulnerable people still seeking economic opportunities abroad, while the trend of people returning to Venezuela is also ongoing, many due to family reunification and/or difficulties in integrating into other countries. Improved economic opportunities and access to essential services are critical to the sustainability of these returns.

The response in 2024 continues to focus on critical needs, strengthening basic service delivery, livelihoods, community resilience, and reducing and responding to protection risks. It focuses on priority thematic areas, vulnerable groups, and municipalities, with the aim of promoting a gender responsive and intersectoral response, in which there is greater complementarity among humanitarian actors and coordination with the State.

An extended Humanitarian Response Plan 2024–2025 is being implemented which aims to provide essential services and social protection for the most vulnerable. 

 In 2024, the UN and partners aim to reach 5.1 million people for which they need US$617 million to continue activities in the following areas: health, food security, nutrition, protection risks, human mobility, emergency preparedness and response, and provision and access to essential services, including education. 

The extension of the Humanitarian Response Plan will be implemented at the municipal level to strengthen partners' operational presence and to cooperate more efficiently with State authorities. A comprehensive approach will be promoted under a humanitarian-development nexus approach to guarantee the impact and sustainability of actions, gender equality, the centrality of protection, and localisation.