YEREVAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) hands over to the Government of the Republic of Armenia the management of its school feeding programme in Gegharkunik and Lori provinces. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been implementing school feeding in Armenia since 2012, providing over 100,000 schoolchildren with hot and nutritious meals every day.
WINDHOEK-The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture recently launched its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) at Otjimuhaka Primary School, Kunene Region. The programme, amounting to US$ 120,000, equivalent to N$ 1.79 million, is funded by Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a timely and generous contribution of US$16.8 million from Saudi Arabia¡¯s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) to assist Syrian refugees in Jordan and to support nutrition programmes for women and children in Pakistan.
NEW YORK ¨C United Nations agencies have announced their strong support for an international coalition aiming to rapidly improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world following pandemic-driven school closures.
ISLAMABAD ¨C The Government of Pakistan is supporting United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) operations to address critical food shortages in Afghanistan as the country faces a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis. According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment, some 22.8 million people in Afghanistan face acute food insecurity, including 8.7 million at emergency level (IPC phase 4). Without immediate humanitarian action, the situation will quickly become a matter of life or death.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a EUR 25.5 million contribution from the Government of France towards its operations in Afghanistan, where half of the population is facing hunger and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.
SUVA, Fiji: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) are partnering together with the Fiji Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation to pilot the first parametric micro-insurance for select social welfare recipients located in high climate risk locations.
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT ¨C United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more Syrians are in the grip of hunger today than at any time during their country¡¯s decade-long conflict, blaming a deadly combination of conflict, climate change, COVID and rising food and fuel costs.
MANILA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today unveiled its Climate Change and Food Security Analysis (CCFSA) study in the Philippines. This study analyzes the interconnectedness of climate change and food security in the country, particularly the threats and the opportunities it presents to food, nutrition, and livelihoods in rural and urban areas.
BISHKEK ¨C The COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious threats to food security and nutrition of the poorest people in the Kyrgyz Republic, particularly those living in urban areas, according to a new study released by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) together with National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic (NSC).
UN agencies say further scaling up of assistance urgently needed as new report highlights widespread food insecurity
Rome - New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows little sign of abating, and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
ROME ¨C Golden Globe-nominated actor and director Daniel Br¨¹hl was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). As conflict, climate change and the impact of the pandemic increase global food insecurity, Br¨¹hl joins the world¡¯s largest humanitarian organization in its mission to reach a world with Zero Hunger.
Islamabad ¨C With the generous support from the European Union (EU), the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has completed the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Surge pilot project in district Umerkot in Sindh province.
JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan. The inundation is threatening to reverse gains made in food security as floodwaters swallow up large swaths of farmland and pastures, destroy crops, and drown precious livestock and entire villages.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a donation package totalling €7.5 million (approximately US$8.1 million) from the Government of Belgium to support the food agency¡¯s response to rising food needs in Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
Climate change experts from United Nations University (UNU) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) call for better integration of nature-based solutions in adaptation planning at COP26 in Glasgow.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in 2019.
ALGIERS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a €5.4 million (US$6.4 million) grant from the European Union (EU) to cover basic food needs of Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf refugee camps in south-west Algeria.
VIENTIANE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has completed the handover of its school feeding programme to the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) of the Lao PDR, after almost 20 years of support to schoolgirls and boys in the country. School feeding in the remaining 915 Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported schools across 8 provinces will now be incorporated into the National School Meals Programme.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and ARRA, the national agency for Refugee and Returnee Affairs, appealed today for US$68 million to avoid food ration cuts for over 700,000 refugees in Ethiopia.
MANILA ¨C The Government of Japan has announced they will donate rice worth JPY 350 million (approx. PHP 162 Million or USD 3.2 Million) to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Government. The donation will support farming and fishing households, including decommissioned combatants, indigenous people and their families facing food-insecure in the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao.
Maseru ¨C The Government of Germany, through the German Federal Foreign Office, has contributed EUR 1.5 million for the years 2021-2023 to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Lesotho to support highly vulnerable people struggling to meet their basic food needs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of a EUR 18 million contribution by Germany to Southern Africa for 2021-2023.
HARARE ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Japan are pleased to announce the finalisation of a resilience building programme in the district of Mount Darwin.
