BETIOKY, Madagascar ¨C The Government of Japan and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today inaugurated three solar-powered agricultural hubs under the ¡°Rapid Rural Transformation¡± (RRT) initiative and six Learning and Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres in Betioky district. The nine facilities are supporting drought-affected communities to produce food, improve children¡¯s nutrition and build resilience to climate shocks.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Country Director in Madagascar, Tania Goossens, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing in Geneva today.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - I would like to share the latest updates from Â鶹ÊÓƵ about the situation in Madagascar in the aftermath of back-to-back cyclones, as well as our operational response.
MANAKARA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the European Union (EU) today officially handed over the country¡¯s first humanitarian hub to the Government of Madagascar. Located in the eastern city of Manakara, the hub will strengthen the nation¡¯s emergency preparedness and response to crises for the cyclone-prone eastern and southern coasts.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on supporting vulnerable households from six regions of Madagascar in producing enough food, withstanding future shocks, and working towards self-sufficiency, in line with the country¡¯s national priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals.
New Â鶹ÊÓƵ report shows a 20 percent increase in just four years of the number of children receiving meals in school through domestic programmes; national governments are leading the global expansion, prioritizing children¡¯s well-being.
ROME ¨C Nearly 80 million more children are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2020 ¡ª a 20 percent increase that brings the global total to at least 466 million children, according to the latest edition of The State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship biennial report released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a timely contribution of JPY 300 million (approximately US$2 million) from the Government of Japan to support humanitarian food assistance to 48,000 vulnerable people in Madagascar¡¯s Great South and Southeast.
Nacala, Mozambique - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a €3 million contribution from the European Union (EU) to support a regional initiative aimed at strengthening disaster preparedness across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) specifically in Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a generous contribution of 10,000 metric tons of rice worth US$12.5 million from the Republic of Korea to support the food and nutritional needs of 480,000 vulnerable people in southern Madagascar.
ANTANANARIVO /JOHANNESBURG¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has for the first time in three months, delivered life-saving nutrition supplies for malnourished children in the remote region of Farafangana, southeastern Madagascar. The consignment of Plumpy'Sup - a lifesaving supplement for children suffering from malnutrition, was delivered via an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) marking a milestone in the use of UAS technology to reach remote and isolated communities.
ANTANANARIVO - The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have reaffirmed their joint commitment to promoting food and nutrition security, strengthening the resilience of vulnerable groups, and transforming the country's food systems by signing a memorandum of understanding in Madagascar.
ANTANANARIVO - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warmly welcomes a contribution from the Government of the People¡¯s Republic of China through the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) to support 43,600 people in southern Madagascar with nutritious meals from December 2024 to March 2025.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warmly welcomes an in-kind contribution of 10,000 metric tons of rice and a US$ 1 million cash contribution from the Republic of Korea (ROK), enabling Â鶹ÊÓƵ to enhance the lean season emergency food response to 548,000 vulnerable people, in the south and southeast of Madagascar, from October 2024 to April 2025.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of 10,000 metric tons of rice from the Republic of Korea (valued at US$ 9.4 million) to boost its emergency humanitarian response to people affected by climate change in Madagascar.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is warning that it will discontinue its helicopter service in south-eastern Madagascar - unless US$1 million is urgently received.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Madagascar have launched an innovative project that seeks to develop rural communities in Androy and Anosy regions, in southern Madagascar.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contributed US$45 million in 2022 on behalf of the American people to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to help provide life-saving food assistance in southern Madagascar, as half the population faces acute food insecurity following consecutive years of drought.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched the Anticipatory Action system as part of efforts to bolster smallholder farmers¡¯ ability to withstand shocks as the country approaches the lean season with up to 1.9 million people estimated to suffer from acute hunger, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
ANTANANARIVO - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ has welcomed a US$ 1.6 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide life-saving food assistance to drought-hit people in southern Madagascar.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C Members of the European Parliament who visited drought-stricken southern Madagascar to see how front-line communities and responders are dealing with the protracted humanitarian emergency there noted that a steady flow of assistance has helped avert catastrophe and ease widespread hunger. But they warned that much remains to be done to meaningfully restore lives and livelihoods in a region particularly prone to the intensifying impacts of climate driven crisis.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today welcomed a EUR 1.5 million contribution from France to help treat and prevent acute malnutrition among young children in southern Madagascar, which is reeling from three consecutive years of devastating drought.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C Tropical Cyclone Emnati that made landfall in Madagascar on Wednesday, the fourth tropical storm in as many weeks to hit one of Africa¡¯s most storm-prone countries, threatens food security and is an example of how weather extremes will trigger runaway humanitarian needs if we do not tackle the climate crisis, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ just days ahead of the launch of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), along with the Government of Madagascar is providing food, logistics, IT assistance and an airlink to support relief operations in the districts of Mananjary and Manakara badly affected by Cyclone Batsirai that made landfall on 5 February.
JOHANNESBURG ¨C Lives, livelihoods, and harvest at risk as Tropical Cyclone Batsirai on course to hit Madagascar, already reeling from the impact of Storm Ana that hit in late January, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ warned today. The cyclone is also expected to bring heavy rains to Mozambique.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C As climate talks get underway in Glasgow, families in Southern Madagascar, where climate is driving famine-like conditions, brace themselves for yet another harsh year ahead as the ongoing drought shows no signs of abating, signaling deteriorating hunger.
ANTANANARIVO, 26 July 2021 ¨C At least half a million children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished including 110,000 in severe condition, in drought-affected southern Madagascar, suffering irreversible damage to their growth and development. The number of acutely malnourished children is likely to increase fourfold since the previous assessment conducted in October 2020, warn UNICEF and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
