Discusses strategies and programs aimed at improving economic opportunities and sustaining livelihoods, particularly for marginalized communities.
Editorial Desk This is a call to action for the Mozambican government, donors, embassies, international organizations, NGOs and local organizations to support and scale up urgent action. Grants and Funds Humanitarian Nutrition in Mozambique. The Nutrition Group is asking for $29 million to scale life-saving nutrition operations to 400,000 children at risk and impacted by […]
More than 20,000 people in the South Sudan’s Upper Nile State have been displaced since August this year, by the escalating armed conflict. At least 3,000 people have already fled to neighbouring Sudan, further intensifying South Sudan’s refugee crisis, the largest in Africa, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The armed conflict erupted in the […]
The sound of a lively song floats down a hill where a group of Burundian refugees and their Congolese neighbours are farming together near the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Zacharie, 25, proudly shows off the land he is cultivating in the Tabac Congo locality, some 15 kilometres […]
Sahra Jamac is a mother of four girls and four boys. She lives with her husband in Biyo-Cade – a remote desert settlement in Eyl district, in Somalia’s Nugaal region. Some 180 families – nearly 1,000 people – live in Biyo-Cade, most of whom are pastoralists who lost their livestock to the current drought. But […]
Every day, internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world leave behind their livelihoods, property and often their roots. In some cases, they are separated from their families and communities, disrupting their familiar way of life. Wherever IDPs choose to settle, they inevitably require a space where they can converge and interact. Community centres, for example, […]
Niamey, 16 September 2022 – The United Nations, in close collaboration with the Government of Niger, has activated an anticipatory action framework in Niger to prevent and mitigate the immediate impact of insufficient rainfall related to drought and climate change. In support of this framework, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths approved $9.5 million (6.2 billion […]
As the United Nations General Assembly gets underway today amid an unprecedented global hunger crisis, cash offers one vehicle to reach the world’s most vulnerable people in ways that can lift communities and economies. While skyrocketing food prices have fallen recently, they still remain high, with the war in Ukraine driving up the cost of […]
Rome, 12 September 2022. To harness the development benefits of using mobile channels to send and receive remittances, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced today its first grant to a digital payments company, MFS Africa, to promote the use of mobile remittances in marginal rural areas in five African countries: Ghana, Kenya, […]
DAKAR, 15 September 2022 – More than 150,000 people, of which about half are children, have been severely affected by floods in Niger and Nigeria in recent weeks, Save the Children said today. The torrential rain is expected to continue in southern Niger and northern Nigeria until end of September, which could lead to further […]
As part of Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) initiative to support small and medium organizations for global impact and innovation, Raising The Village (RTV) will partner with the Government of Canada over 4 years to support 100,000 last-mile community members experiencing ultra-poverty. Toronto, September 5, 2022: Raising The Village (RTV), a Canadian charity committed to ending […]
