UNHAS is a critical lifeline transporting humanitarian workers and lifesaving cargo to some of the most challenging and hard-to-reach locations. This brief provides an overview of their operations in Cameroon.
Since the early 2000s, the Government of Lao PDR has worked to improve primary school enrolment and retention rates with the help of school meals, an incentive for education for many rural families.
“The project that we launch today will help us strengthen national capacities for a timely and adequate response to acute malnutrition and ensure that children in vulnerable communities are able to learn and grow,” said Catarina Oatanha, Head of the Public Health Department of the Luanda Provincial Health Directorate.
To enable efficient treatment of children under five showing
As WFP faces a shortage of resources in Iraq, this timely donation from Japan will help address the food insecurity of internally displaced families and enhance the resilience of returnees and local communities.
“Japan has provided an overall assistance package for Iraq of US$63 million in 2019, including this particular contribution to food security,” said H.E. Mr.
In the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Idai, the EU contributed €1 million in support of logistics operations that supported the emergency response coordinated by Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute.
The UN team included the United Nations Children’s Fund, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organisation, United Nations Population Fund and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Sudan.
Parts of southern Blue Nile State have been inaccessible to UN agencies and most humanitarian groups since conflict began there and in the Nuba mountains of South Kord
“We are grateful for the continuous support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands,” said Richard Ragan, WFP Bangladesh Representative and Country Director. “Thanks to this generous contribution, we will be able to sustain our response to meet the increasing needs of the refugees as well as the host communities.
“This is a new dawn for Sudan, a Sudan that can positively impact the future of the whole region,” said David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme after meeting the Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok.