The LWF World Service Annual report is available on the website. Photo: LWF/ N. Torrecillas
Scale and impact of LWF's humanitarian work
(LWI) - LWF World Service has published its Annual Report 2024. The report provides an insight into the scale and impact of LWF's humanitarian and development work worldwide in 2024 and over the last strategic period (2019-2024). It also introduces the new World Service Strategy (2025-2031), which retains the previous motto, For Hope and a Future.
The 2024 Annual Report edition is presented in a concise 16-page format, capturing key highlights and achievements of the year. It showcases selected achievements across the three LWF World Service Programmatic Areas and humanitarian response, using short stories and testimonies from the people LWF works with. It also offers a summary of outreach activities, staff statistics, financial status, and the partners with whom LWF World Service collaborated in 2024 to fulfill its 75-year-old mandate as the humanitarian and development arm of the LWF.
Delivering with local expertise
During the last strategic period (2019-2024), LWF World Service cumulatively supported more than 16 million people to live in dignity and shape their futures. 2.5 million was funded in 2024 alone, with a staff team of about 6600, most based in the communities and countries where LWF World Service works.
More than half of our staff are refugees, and over 99% are based in the countries where we operate. Local expertise is the foundation of our responses.
Maria Immonen, Director, LWF World Service
Shift toward humanitarian response
Over the years, LWF World Service's work has increasingly shifted from long-term development programming towards emergency humanitarian response, reflecting the rising number of crises and growing global needs. Refugees, internally displaced people, and host communities remain at the center of its work across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Europe.
Rights-based approach
The 2024 report affirms LWF's continued commitment to human rights and a rights-based approach, particularly to women's and girls' empowerment. It features the Sudanese crisis, one of the world's most underfunded emergencies. LWF World Service is responding to the Sudanese crisis in Chad, South Sudan, Uganda, and Ethiopia, providing life-saving assistance, creating livelihood opportunities, and supporting protection and access to essential services, including education, water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and health.
Many of the images in the report reflect how LWF World Service continues to place the people at the center of its work and presence in the places where support is most needed.
