Day: September 26, 2022

In Numbers   15 mt of food assistance distributed   USD 398,696 cash-based transfers made   USD 32 m next six months (September ‘22 – February ‘23) net funding requirements   22,061 people assisted in August 2022   Operational Updates   Through the urban social assistance and resilience building programme, WFP and partners assisted 10,085 people, with double rations – covering their August and September entitlements. In Chiredzi, the programme also partners with the Stopping Abuse and Female Exploitation (SAFE) programme which promotes prevention of gender-based violence through social and economic empowerment of participants, while also providing referral pathways for

Rotary International President Jennifer Jones appeared on the main stage at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival on 24 September to highlight Rotary’s commitment to eradicating polio and announce an additional US$150 million pledge toward that end.   Jones, who spoke in front of 60,000 people in New York City and tens of thousands more online and on TV, noted the state of emergency that the governor of New York state recently declared to combat a resurgence of polio in the region.   Jones stressed that polio is preventable through vaccines and that wild poliovirus is endemic in only two countries,

Abidjan – 13 September 2022: The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of South Korea through its International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), is organizing from September 13 to 15, 2022 in Abidjan an international conference on the theme: “South-South and triangular partnership to eliminate fistula by 2030”. Chaired by Her Excellency Mrs. Dominique Ouattara, First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire, this event aims to strengthen the mobilization of domestic resources and partners to eliminate obstetric fistula in West and Central Africa by 2030.   Obstetric fistula is one of the most serious