BAGHDAD ¨C The Ministry of Education of Iraq (MoE) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have agreed to broaden access to school feeding for 3.6 million school children across the country. So far this year, 264,000 of the most vulnerable children have been provided with school meals and support in 11 districts. Partners plan to expand the programme over the next four years to provide better opportunities to all children in need, to stay in school and support their learning and futures.
New Delhi/Bhubaneshwar: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Odisha will work on improving household food and nutritional security by strengthening livelihood initiatives, reaching thousands of state-supported Women¡¯s Self-Help Groups (WSHGs).
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.
Lilongwe, Malawi ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD 9.5 million (about MK7.7 billion) contribution from the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable households, support livelihoods of community members, and strengthen capacity of national and local institutions to better address food security, disaster risk management, and emergency responses in Malawi.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Goodwill Ambassador and film star Hend Sabry received today her Â鶹ÊÓƵ Nobel commemorative pin and certificate in recognition of her ¡°dedication and service and for contributing to the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize¡± awarded to the organization.
Transforming food systems in the Arab region is crucial to ending hunger and malnutrition in the region
A United Nations study indicates that hunger in the Arab region continues to rise, threatening the region¡¯s efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Zero Hunger goal.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has today welcomed a US$1.1 million contribution from the Government of Switzerland that will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ provide monthly food assistance to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs), Syrian refugees living in Iraq as well as strengthen people¡¯s resilience.
AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley, is urging the world to step-up and take action after bearing witness to the invisible crisis enveloping Southern Madagascar, where whole communities are teetering on the edge of starvation.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that famine ¨C already present in four countries ¨C could become a reality for millions of people around the world, without urgent funding to stave off a catastrophe, and without access to families cut-off by conflict.
NAIROBI ¨C Nearly 9 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), 4.7 million refugees and asylum-seekers, and hundreds of thousands of migrants in East and Horn of Africa are suffering some of the worst impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
JUBA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of €5.7 million (US$6.68 million) for 2021 from Germany to provide life-saving food assistance to thousands of people in South Sudan. It comes at a critical time when funding is scarce, and the country faces alarmingly high rates of food insecurity due to conflict, floods and rising poverty.
ROME ¨C Millions of refugees are looking to a future of uncertainty and hunger as the effects of the pandemic on aid budgets play out in funding shortages for emergency operations, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned ahead of World Refugee Day.
ROME ¨C Award-winning humanitarian, author and former UN Women Senior Advisor, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, was today appointed as Special Advisor to the Director of Communications, Advocacy and Marketing of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
Rome/Geneva/New York - Millions of people are pressed up against the border in an active war zone in north-west Syria and remain in need of humanitarian aid to survive. The UN needs cross-border and cross-line access to reach those most in need.
ROME ¨C This weekend, leaders of the G7 acknowledged the unprecedented humanitarian crisis our world faces today as more than 34 million people teeter on the edge of famine and endorsed a Famine Prevention Compact to urgently address the problem. This is a welcome move.
KINSHASA ¨C As hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the sudden eruption of Nyiragongo volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) start returning home, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a USD 150,000 contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea to help provide them with emergency food assistance.
KHARTOUM ¨C For the first time in ten years, United Nations humanitarian agencies have been able to access conflict-affected communities in the five non-governmental areas controlled by the Sudan People¡¯s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) El Hilu in South Kordofan and Blue Niles states of Sudan.
ROME ¨C Alarming new data has today confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350 000 of them are facing famine. The lack of information on people¡¯s food security in western Tigray in the IPC analysis is also deeply worrying.
10 June 2021, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNICEF call for urgent action to address the dramatic acute food insecurity in northern Ethiopia. The three agencies are particularly concerned about the situation in Tigray region where the risk of famine is imminent, unless food, livelihood assistance and other life-saving interventions continue to be scaled-up, unimpeded access is guaranteed, and hostilities cease.
JERUSALEM ¨C The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) will support more than 5,300 vulnerable women in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, using the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) electronic voucher platform.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a generous contribution of €8.5 million for 2021-2023 from the people of Germany to provide emergency assistance to save lives and the livelihoods of communities affected by conflict and climate change in Ethiopia. It is part of Germany¡¯s flexible funding for the Eastern Africa region.
SANA¡¯A ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes EUR 37 million from the European Union (EU) to support the humanitarian response in Yemen and provide emergency food assistance in response to an alarming rise in food insecurity which has left millions on the brink of famine.
Dili¨C A United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) chartered flight carrying Sinovac vaccines from Beijing arrived today in Dili. The vaccinations were donated by the Chinese Government in support of the COVID-19 response in Timor-Leste.
AMMAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today that 21,000 Syrian refugees will no longer receive their monthly food assistance as of July following a prioritization exercise driven by a shortage of funds.
