KIGALI?¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of over USD 666,000 (approximately RWF 970 million) from the Government of Japan to provide lifesaving food assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and returnees in Rwanda.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is scaling up to deliver life-saving assistance to more than 210,000 of the most vulnerable people displaced by the recent violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While some food supplies are already pre-positioned in the conflict area, Â鶹ÊÓƵ urgently needs USD 67M million to continue assistance for three months.
Kigali, Rwanda¨C The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today signed a grant arrangement worth USD 1.2 million to support sustainable agriculture and youth employment in Rwanda¡¯s Gatsibo District. A signing ceremony took place in Kigali, with Jinhwa Kim, KOICA Country Director, and Kaori Ura, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Rwanda Deputy Country Director.
DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship global biennial report released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today that the sheer scale of people being displaced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to escalating conflict, is pushing food insecurity to crisis proportions and deepening an already strained humanitarian response both internally and across the region.
KIGALI?¨C A delegation of the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Board wrapped up a visit to Rwanda where they saw how the UN food agency - the world¡¯s largest humanitarian organisation - is supporting refugees and asylum seekers, and contributing to the Government's development objectives?through capacity building and programmes that promote sustainable and climate-resilient food systems.
WASHINGTON, DC ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes four awards totaling US $110 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support critical school meals programmes across Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Laos, and Rwanda. The funding will benefit nearly half a million children and their communities in more than 1,600 pre-primary and primary schools across the four countries.
The Government of Japan announces its support to the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Rwanda¡¯s programme for providing food assistance to asylum seekers and Rwandan returnees, amounting to USD 1.2 million.
Kigali: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has increased food assistance for refugees in all five camps across Rwanda by 43 percent to help them meet their basic needs following the increase in food and energy prices globally. From February 2023, refugees classified as highly vulnerable, will receive RWF 10,000 (1) per person per month (increased from RWF 7,000). Refugees classified as moderately vulnerable, will receive RWF 5,000 (2) per person per month (increased from RWF 3,500). These are reduced rations from the adjusted full entitlements of RWF 13,600 for highly and RWF 7,800 for moderately vulnerable refugees due to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s funding shortfalls.
KIGALI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$7.2 million from the United States (through USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance) to provide life-saving food assistance in the form of cash transfers and treatment for malnutrition including social and behavioral change initiatives for 113,500 refugees living in all five camps in Rwanda.
KIGALI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Rwanda has welcomed a contribution of US$3.6 million from Germany to support the food and nutrition needs of women and children in the refugee community, to strengthen government social protection systems and improve food security and incomes for smallholder farmers.
Copenhagen ¨C The Novo Nordisk Foundation and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have sealed a partnership to further advance Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s homegrown school feeding and smallholder farmer support programmes in Rwanda and Uganda. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed a US$4.1 million grant to improve health, nutrition, food security and incomes for marginalized and vulnerable smallholder farming communities. The objective is to build the resilience and functionality of food systems in the most food insecure regions of both countries.
Kigali ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$5.5 million from the United States (through USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance) to provide cash transfers to refugees living in all five camps in Rwanda. This funding is in addition to an earlier contribution of US$4 million.
Kigali - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a US$2.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide nutrition assistance to refugees living in Mahama refugee camp in Eastern Rwanda.
Kigali, Rwanda ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Impact Hub Kigali (IHK), with the support of USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are launching the IGNITE Food Systems Challenge in Rwanda to foster locally-driven solutions to tackle food systems challenges. The initiative will offer technical support and a total of 300,000 USD in financial support.?
SEOUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 2 million contribution from the Republic of Korea towards its school feeding operations in three African countries - Guinea, Rwanda, and Benin. This will help ensure that school aged children have access to school meals, as well as support governments to scale up and improve the quality of their national school feeding programmes
KIGALI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received today US$5.3 million from USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to provide humanitarian food assistance in the form of cash transfers to over 104,000 Congolese and Burundian refugees in camps across Rwanda.
KIGALI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, have started rolling out a new mechanism in Rwanda to prioritize general food assistance to the most vulnerable refugees.
Kigali ¨C Today, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced it would reduce food assistance to refugees in Rwanda by a dramatic 60 percent, as of March 2021. Some 135,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees in camps in Rwanda rely on humanitarian assistance to meet their basic food needs each month.
Kigali ¨C The Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) proudly welcomes the Government of New Zealand as a new partner with its generous multi-year commitment of NZD 6,800,000 million to support smallholder farmers across Africa, with NZD 4,200,000 committed to Rwanda from 2020-2023.
WASHINGTON ¨C As classrooms around the developing world begin to re-open, the U.N. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is receiving US$119 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide school meals in five countries in Asia and Africa.
Geneva/ Rome - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters ¨C as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food.
NAIROBI ¨C The dire socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic may more than double the number of hungry people in East Africa and the Horn over the next three months, a report from the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has found.
