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Date Time Increased investment in Sahel will boost development and resilience of rural populations – About one million rural people in the Sahel region will benefit from a new joint programme, the first of its kind, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced today. The US$180.4 million Regional Joint Programme will revitalize economic activities and food systems in the Group of Five Sahel countries and in the Republic of Senegal. The project is known as the Regional ...

URL copied Female Genital Mutilation: Know why it is practiced, How can it be stopped Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure performed on a woman or girl to alter or injure her genitalia for non-medical reasons. It most often involves the partial or total removal of her external genitalia. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of ...

Child marriage, female genital mutilation urgent priorities as pandemic threatens progress Format Fethiye says staff at a UNFPA safe space helped convince her family to let her go to school rather than be wed. © UNFPA Turkey UNITED NATIONS, New York – February is a busy month for retailers marketing the promise of “happily ever after” to girls around the world. But for tens of millions of girls, this is just a fairytale. Their girlhoods are ending, not with storybook romance but with har...

Maldives-UN sign project on digitising social services to protect women and children 21 January 2021, MVT 20:16 Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid (R) and UN Resident Coordinator Catherine Haswell sign the project document Protecting Women and Children: Digitalizing and Streamlining Social Services and Creating a Unified Platform for National Care on January 21, 2020. PHOTO/FOREIGN MINISTRY 21 January 2021, MVT 20:16 The United Nations (UN) and Maldives on Thursday signed a project docu...

Date Time Share FAO’s Investment Centre is stepping up its support for creating more robust and sustainable agri-food systems 21 December 2020, Rome – Mohamed Manssouri, Director of FAO’s Investment Centre discusses the Centre’s work and expansion plans. What’s the FAO Investment Centre? Simply put, the FAO Investment Centre creates investment solutions in sustainable food and agriculture. The Centre offers a range of investment support services helping countries to create long-term ...

FAO’s Investment Centre is stepping up its support for creating more robust and sustainable agri-food systems Format What’s the FAO Investment Centre? Simply put, the FAO Investment Centre creates investment solutions in sustainable food and agriculture. The Centre offers a range of investment support services helping countries to create long-term investment policies and plans, to design and implement investment projects with financing partners and to generate knowledge and build capacities...

Season’s Greetings from the East and Southern Africa Region News 22 December 2020 We have come to the end of a year that challenged our plans, strategies, and programme delivery but also inspired new ways of working and fresh solutions to reaching our goals. The far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has not spared any sector and has laid bare the deep inequalities and continued marginalization experienced by millions of vulnerable people the world over, particularly women and youth. Y...

Working with Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management R & D Programme We collaboratively develop research which will deliver benefits for the FCERM practitioner community. From: Print this page We share information between organisations, disciplines and scientists and practitioners. We work collaboratively to avoid duplicating work and investment. Who we work with arms-length public bodies across the UK academia, including universities and UK and overseas funding bodies public sector resea...

Aurivo Teagasc Joint programme 2021-2023 The Aurivo/Teagasc joint programme was launched this week by Raymond Barlow Chairman of Aurivo Co-op and Tom Kellegher, Teagasc Regional Advisory Manager. The Joint Programme aims to improve farm profitability and environmental practices while ensuring that dairy farming is socially sustainable. The programme builds on and is a continuation of the two previous programmes that began in 2014. Pictured at the launch of Aurivo Teagasc Joint programme 2021-20...