Bread And Stones: Leadership and the Struggle to Reform the United Nations World Food Program
Urbanomics (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Freakonomics points attention to the World Food Program's (WFP) decision to deliver food vouchers to Iraqi refugee families in Syria through mobile phones using SMS text messaging. The WFP will send a 22-dollar (15-euro) voucher every two months by SMS to each family (who will be provided with a special SIM card), who can then exchange the electronic voucher for rice, wheat flour, lentils, chickpeas,...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona. "What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat. "I don't know how much time to turn that operational...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The UN aid agencies have called for ensuring safety and security to civilians including aid workers engaged in relief activities for displaced persons following military operation in South Waziristan.(..)Dominique, Frankefort Deputy Country Director WFP said there were six registration points five in D.I. Khan and one in Tank that were administered by the Social Welfare Department of NWFP and supported...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rwanda may be among the first African countries to achieve the Millennium development Goal I, if it maintains or increases its pace in reducing food insecurity amongst its citizens.(..)World Food Programme Country Director Abdoulaye Baldé said that there has been great improvement in ensuring food security in Rwanda.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
World Food Programme (WFP) is currently facing challenges to continue its support to the school feeding programme, country director Pablo Recalde has disclosed. And Recalde has said WFP has food stocks to supply as rations to the country’s refugee population up to December this year.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra Friday for Lagos at the start of a two-week overseas trip that will take him Spain, Italy, Kenya and Ethiopia.(..)From Rome he will travel to Kenya and then Ethiopia on assignment for the United Nations World Food Programme as part of measures to assess and advice on the food crisis currently confronting those two countries.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The American people, through the USAID, have provided US$340 million in emergency and humanitarian food aid - more than 464,000 metric tons – and more than $60 million in emergency nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, and similar non-food assistance over the last year to support vulnerable families and communities in Ethiopia.(..)USAID is providing an initial contribution of US$50 million to...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Wailers, formerly Bob Marley's backing band, called on Formula 1 fans at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to help WFP feed millions of hungry school children around the world.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Senior managers agree to intensify cooperation.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
As African leaders gathered in Kampala mid last month to attend the African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displace Persons, perhaps not so many of us were actually aware that elsewhere, in the UK, another conference was taking place to warn that the international law is inadequate to deal with millions of people forecast to become climate exiles in the face of escalating...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WFP and CATERPILLAR In January 2009, Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment, teamed up with the World Food Programme Logistics via Friends of WFP USA.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). (..) Poverty levels in Casamance are among the highest in Senegal at more than 60 percent, with nearly half of households vulnerable to food insecurity, according to a 2007...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Munir Sheikh and Atif Sheikh know they are lucky to be alive. Despite suffering serious injuries the pair survived a suicide bombing attack in Pakistan. They know they were lucky because many of their colleagues were not. The two men were just metres away from the bomber when he blew himself up and they are now recovering from their injuries in a Dubai hospital. Munir and Atif told 7DAYS how they were...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan was a nation in tatters - in need of basic relief, reconstruction and political and civil development. (..) The World Food Programme (WFP) has been operating in Afghanistan since the 1960s but the country's needs are as acute as ever.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
More than 500 Congolese refugees were yesterday repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Zambia (..) Home Affairs Deputy Minister, David Phiri, who was the guest of honour at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)-organised repatriation exercise, thanked the UN agency for the milestone achieved in the Congolese repatriation exercise.(..) Others in attendance were...
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