Dhaka ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a new contribution of USD 4.5 million from the Government of Germany towards the critical work for Rohingya families and their host communities in Cox¡¯s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Paletwa, MYANMAR ¨C This week the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has commenced distribution of a newly-arrived tranche of 165 tons of emergency food and nutrition assistance for communities affected by conflict in Paletwa Town in remote southern Chin State, which has been largely cut off from regular trade and supply routes for many months.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a special contribution for its COVID-19 humanitarian response in Iraq from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). The generous funding of US$6.25 million will help provide food assistance over three months for nearly 80,000 internally displaced Iraqis and 22,000 Syrian refugees, whose needs have grown as a result of the global pandemic.
ROME ¨C A new report published today shows that people in some 25 countries are set to face devastating levels of hunger in coming months due to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the greatest concentration of need is in Africa, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the Middle East and Asia ¨C including middle-income countries - are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity, according to the Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Security Hotspots, compiled by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
COLOMBO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Australian Government are supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with take-home rations for children covered by the national school meal programme.
DAKAR ¨C 15.4 million cases of acute malnutrition in children under five years old are expected in 2020 in West and Central Africa ¨C one third of them from its most severe form ¨C if adequate measures are not put in place now, warned the United Nations Children¡¯s Funds (UNICEF) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). This represents a 20 per cent increase from earlier estimates, in January 2020, according to an analysis of the combined impact of food insecurity and COVID-19 on acute malnutrition in 19 countries of the region.
PANAMA CITY ¨C Two thirds of the 3 million Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru who have seen their jobs disappear and their incomes plummet during the pandemic will see their food insecurity worsen in 2020, according to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s COVID-19 projections.
ROME/YOKOHAMA ¨C Through a new five-year partnership, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) is contributing JPY 1.5 billion (approximately USD 14 million) to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support the pandemic response and help make health systems more resilient.
MOROTO, Uganda ¨CThe Government of Uganda and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are distributing take-home food rations to school children in the Karamoja sub-region in north-eastern Uganda to support home-learning while schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak across the country.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) launched Cash for Work projects to support 15,000 vulnerable people in eastern Tajikistan who have been affected by the socio-economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Securing healthy diets for the billions who cannot afford them would save trillions in costs
Rome, 13 July 2020 ¨C More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition.
Kabul ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a new contribution of EUR 3.6 million from the European Union (EU) that will help provide lifesaving assistance to the most vulnerable Afghans affected by natural and man-made disasters.
KAMPALA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received US$1 million from the Government of Denmark today to assist refugees in Kampala struggling because of the socio-economic impact of lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Geneva/ Rome - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters ¨C as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food.
KABUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a new contribution of US$ 49 million from USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance towards programmes that help meet the food and nutrition needs of vulnerable communities in the country.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan signed an agreement last week to launch a climate change adaptation project funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project will benefit over the next four years approximately 115,000 food-insecure people in rural Tajik communities.
BAMAKO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today launched a large-scale food and nutrition intervention to assist nearly one million people in the northern and central regions of Mali including Gao, Kidal, M¨¦naka, Mopti, S¨¦gou, Taoud¨¦nit and Timbuktu.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C A funding shortfall of US$158 million this year is threatening millions of people in Ethiopia who depend on food and nutrition assistance for their very survival.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the World Bank have collected and analyzed new data on the impact of the crisis on food security, and made corresponding joint recommendations in the first report of a new regular series, ¡°The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security in Iraq.¡±
DHAKA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in support of the Government of Bangladesh¡¯s emergency response, has dispatched cash assistance to communities at risk of monsoon flooding in northern Bangladesh.
NAIROBI ¨C With vital donor support, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched cash transfers and nutrition support for more than a quarter of a million people struggling to survive from the impact of COVID-19 on informal settlements in Nairobi.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C In a major institutional step towards building resilience against hunger, the Government of Haiti officially adopted its National Social Protection and Promotion Policy, supported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
