The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on how people earn a living and meet critical needs. The Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact Survey was launched by CARICOM to rapidly gather data on impacts to livelihoods, food security and access to markets. Prepared by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the survey link was shared via social media, email and media.
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2019 Annual Report describes the third year of activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
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The report presents the findings from the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting of the RBA/Canada resilience initiative which was held in Niger between the 16th to the 20th of September 2019.
Protection and AAP are clear priorities for Â鶹ÊÓƵ worldwide. Rolling out such systems in Lebanon has recently included the recruitment of two new staff.
Standby partners are an important mechanism for Â鶹ÊÓƵ to rapidly augment its emergency response. Not only do standby partners provide rapid surge capacity during emergencies, they also bring to Â鶹ÊÓƵ specific technical skills and equipment that are not available in-house. Standby partners bring expertise that help Â鶹ÊÓƵ adapt to the changing humanitarian landscape. Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s standby partner relationships are managed by the Augmented Logistics Intervention Team for Emergencies (ALITE) within Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Supply Chain Division.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is a signatory to the Grand Bargain and was a member, through September 2017, of its Facilitation Group. Â鶹ÊÓƵ strongly supports the Grand Bargain and will continue to play a strategic and constructive role in the implementation of the commitments.
In 2018, as needs continued to grow, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the European Union continued to work closely together to save and change lives of millions of people across the globe.
This country portfolio evaluation covered Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s portfolio in Cameroon from 2012 to mid-2017. It assessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategic positioning in Cameroon, the quality of and factors influencing Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s decision making, and the performance and results of portfolio activities. It was timed to inform the programming and operationalization of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s new Cameroon country strategic plan, approved in June 2017, and to contribute to enhanced collaboration and synergies among the Rome-based agencies. It was conducted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s independent Office of Evaluation together with an external evaluation team, with field work in August 2017.
This Synthesis of Operations Evaluations for the West and Central Africa Region brings together the findings of fifteen operations evaluations, conducted from mid-2013 to mid-2017
