Photo: José Fausto Díaz. Santa Cruz de Yojoa. Cortés. Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday 22 February 2021 - The severity of acute food insecurity in Honduras has reached unprecedented levels and the Integrated Food Security (IPC) analysis projects that the situation will worsen in the coming months leaving more than one third of the population facing severe hunger. Urgent funding and assistance are needed to help combat this devastating hunger epidemic.
Maite Matheu, Country Director of CARE Honduras says;
“By the end of this year we are looking at a staggering one third of the population of Honduras suffering from extreme and chronic hunger. This is something never seen before, and certainly not in the 25 years I have lived in Honduras. A brutal combination of COVID-19 lockdowns throughout 2020 and subsequent loss of livelihoods, thousands of lost jobs, severe tropical storms at the end of last year, and recurrent droughts in the last 5 years linked to climate change,
Dahiru Mohammed is determined to use the platform of the Presidential implementation committee to make a difference, writes Dike Aguonye
A banker and international trade expert, Dahiru Mohammed leads the next frontier of work to tackle one of Nigeria’s most challenging problems – hunger. Strongly believing that the state of the hunger challenge in Nigeria is a result of a multi-sectoral failing, Mohammed wants a framework for tackling the problem recognizing and utilizing multi-faceted approaches. He intends to pursue a pragmatic programme that connects the dots from multiple windows to arrest the obvious gaps. President Muhammed Buhari on December 10, 2020 inaugurated the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Bilateral Agreement between Nigeria-Czech Republic with Mohammed as chairman.
WFP Pakistan Country Brief, October 2020
Format
US$ 26.3 million six months (Nov 2020 – Apr 2021) representing 44 percent of total.
303,263 people assisted in September 2020
Operational Updates
• While monsoon rains in Sindh have stopped and most areas were drained of stagnant water, the impact of the floods on livelihoods has been substantial. Households are consequently in critical need of immediate food and non-food assistance. Following the first phase of in-kind food assistance in September, WFP has initiated the second phase of relief support through multi-purpose cash-based assistance. This second phase targets 117,000 flood-affected people who have not yet received assistance from WFP or others, in Sindh’s Mirpur Khas,