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Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020: Maternal and child diets at the heart of improving nutrition
This is the third annual report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Assembly targets 2030 on nutrition in the Asia and Pacific region, written by United Nations agencies. The report tracks progress on key SDG 2 (Zero
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2020 Global Hunger Index: One decade to zero hunger linking health and sustainable food systems
At the time of writing, approximately 200 million children suffer from stunting or wasting worldwide. Worldwide hunger is estimated to be moderate, but it is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has undermined food and nutrition security for many. The impac
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Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health and Nutrition Through Structural Solutions in West Hararghe Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia Abdiboru Project Final
The objective of the project was to empower girls in rural West Hararghe, Ethiopia, through improved reproductive health, nutrition, and education. Ethiopia is characterized by a high level of early marriage. For many girls, early marriage results in them
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Adjusting Food Distribution Standard Operating Procedures in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak Ver 2
These interim recommendations for school and food distribution are useful for COVID-19 response, when looking at phase 3 of a large scale response, working with social service systems and child protection actors to ensure continuity of critical services t
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COVID-19 Aftershocks: Secondary impacts threaten more children's lives than the disease itself
While current evidence shows that children are not particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus, previous experience from the Ebola outbreak suggests that children are more vulnerable to the secondary impacts of the outbreak. Such threats include food insec
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An Assesment on the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Livelihoods in Mandera Turkana and Wajir Counties
COVID-19 is having a significant impact on already vulnerable communities in Turkana, Mandera and Wajir counties who are still suffering from consecutive climate-related disasters including drought, floods, and the recent locust invasion. It is also antic
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Jukwaa Letu Newsletter January-August 2020
This publication highlights our program activities from January to August 2020: such as door to door immunization supporting declining vaccination rates amid COVID-19 pandemic, Community Health Volunteers extending services to children living with disabil
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2021: Children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America
Mexico and other countries in Central America are facing significant humanitarian needs due to migration flows, violence, internal displacement, food insecurity and poverty. The ongoing difficulties in Mexico and Central America is exacerbated by the ongo
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Community-Driven Financial Inclusion for the Most Vulnerable Households: Lessons from the Tat Lan Programme's Village Savings and Loan Associations in Rakhine, Myanmar
This report highlights lessons from the Tat Lan Programme’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) in Rakhine, Myanmar. The Tat Lan Programme, funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) in Myanmar was implemented in two phases (20
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The State of the World's Children 2019- Children, food, and nutrition: Growing well in a changing world
The 2019 edition of UNICEF's flagship report "State of the World's Children" examines the issue of food and nutrition as it relates to children. Despite progress in the last decades, one-third of children under five worldwide are malnourished. Meanwhile,
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A Cost of the Diet Analysis in Sylhet and Moulvibazar District of North-East Bangladesh
This research brief summarises the key findings and recommendations of the Cost of the Diet (CotD) assessment conducted in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts of Bangladesh in 2018. The study was conducted to estimate the potential contribution of DFID & EU
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From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses
After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,056 households have had their land and crops partially o