PESHAWAR: The Elementary & Secondary Education Department (E&SED), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched an education support programme for adolescent girl students in Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The pilot project aims to provide income support to families of adolescent girls so that they are able to meet their food and nutrition needs during COVID-19 and continue their schooling.
Beirut ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley announced today that the organization is bringing 17,500 metric tons of wheat flour and a three-month supply of wheat into Lebanon to help replenish the country¡¯s food reserves as part of a rapid logistics operation that will also involve setting up warehouses and mobile grain storage units.
DHAKA ¨CThe Ministry of Food and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ formalised the inclusion of fortified rice in Open Market Sales (OMS) today. Richard Ragan, Country Representative of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Sarwar Mahmud, Director General of Directorate General of Food, and Md. Zahangir Alam, Chief Controller, Dhaka Rationing inaugurated the programme in Chand Uddan, Mohammadpur of Dhaka city corporation. Nutrition International (NI) and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) will be supporting the advocacy for fortified rice in the programme.
ROME / SINGAPORE ¨C Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Temasek Foundation are partnering with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support the global COVID-19 response to help transport essential medical supplies and other health and humanitarian items by air to points of need around the world.
COLOMBO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a new contribution of USD 550,000 from the United States Government in support of its collaborative efforts with the Government of Sri Lanka to strengthen emergency preparedness amongst communities affected by climate shocks.
DAKAR ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) was shocked to learn that a staff member of one of its partner organisations in the North West Region of Cameroon was killed by unidentified armed people.
London - The GSMA and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are expanding their partnership to help the world¡¯s most vulnerable people. Through the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation programme, which has been funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) since 2017, this three-year collaboration will primarily focus on the use of mobile money to deliver digital assistance through cash-based transfers to save lives in global emergencies, including pandemics and natural disasters.
Rome ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is extremely saddened by the Lebanon blasts and extends its condolences to the people of Lebanon, which has always been at the forefront of our humanitarian response in the region.
NADI, Fiji ¨C Countries and territories of the Pacific Islands and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) reached a milestone today with the launch of the humanitarian air service in the region. The first flight, from Nadi, Fiji to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, completed this morning, delivered 44 cubic metres of essential medical supplies that will be used in the Government of Papua New Guinea¡¯s response to COVID-19.
KATHMANDU ¨C Fortified rice, lentils and vegetable oil, totalling to nearly 1,500 MT, donated by the United States have been distributed by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Nepal to school children (from Grade1-8) in rural areas who are missing out on nutritious school lunches they used to receive in Sudur Paschim and Karnali provinces.
BANGUI ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed the first ever delivery of food assistance to the landlocked Central African Republic (C.A.R.) using barges along the Ubangui River from neighbouring Republic of Congo. The new supply route from Brazzaville to Bangui is an alternative and complementary supply line that will make live-saving food assistance available more quickly in C.A.R.
SEOUL/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received US$ 3 million from the Republic of Korea to help address the impacts of the desert locust outbreak in East Africa. The donation will provide a much-needed boost to several Â鶹ÊÓƵ operations where vulnerable communities are struggling with the impact that the desert locusts have had on their food security and livelihoods, as well as the triple threat of conflict, climate change and the socio-economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
SUDAN¡ªThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched its nutrition support programme for the first time in Khartoum for 175,000 pregnant and nursing women and children under five, in collaboration with the Khartoum State Ministry of Health (SMOH).
SEOUL/ROME ¨C The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea has contributed US$ 2.5 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), enabling it to continue providing United Nations Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) in countries where conflicts, natural disasters and the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic are pushing millions into hunger and poverty.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$12 million from USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance in support of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, where the public health emergency is compounded by increasing levels of food insecurity and where many communities¡¯ livelihoods are being obliterated.
DHAKA: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), Oxfam Bangladesh and Green Delta Insurance Company Ltd. launched a new insurance scheme on 1 July to protect casual agricultural labourers in Bangladesh from catastrophic floods during this year¡¯s monsoon season. The on-going flood has affected more than 1 million people in South Asia this month.
BAGHDAD ¨C The European Union has provided a new contribution of €5 million for the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to provide food assistance to vulnerable families, over six months.
COLOMBO ¨C The Government of Japan has donated a large shipment of canned fish, weighing 388 MT and worth JPY 300 million (LKR 519 million), to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Sri Lanka, to meet the protein needs of school children covered by the national school meal programme.
ROME/JOHANNESBURG ¨C With COVID-19 aggravating an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today appealed for an additional US$250 million to support a rapidly expanding emergency operation for millions at-risk.
ROME ¨C The relentless rise of hunger, struggling economies, deepening inequality and an active hurricane season are threatening the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and may have far-reaching consequences unless swift action is taken, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
DUSHANBE ¨C Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), contributed US$1.1 million towards the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) COVID-19 response in Tajikistan.
LUSAKA ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) this week completed a first distribution of cash to Zambians in urban areas impacted by COVID-19, reaching some 180,000 vulnerable residents in Lusaka and Kafue. The plan is to assist more than 650,000 people over the next six months.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Egypt received a generous contribution of EURO15 million from the Egyptian-German Debt Swap Programme for 2020.
JUBA - Recurring violence in Jonglei and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area in the eastern part of South Sudan has already displaced more than 60,000 people and is crippling the food security and livelihoods of growing numbers of people, two United Nations agencies warned today.
