Niger Archives

2020 17 June

Faced with Covid-19, the EU and UNICEF guarantee continuity of vital care for malnourished children in Niger

UNICEF Niger will benefit from USD 2.6 million dollars of financial aid from the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Union (ECHO), ensuring that children suffering from severe acute malnutrition receive quality treatment and care during the Covid-19 crisis. “We are deeply concerned at the crisis...

2020 04 June

The EU and UNICEF to ensure continuity of life-saving care for malnourished children in Niger

David Martin | Child nutrition Humanitarian field SUN Donor Network, SUN UN Network 0

UNICEF receives additional USD 2.6 million funding support from the EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) to ensure that children suffering from severe acute malnutrition receive quality care and treatment amidst the Covid-19 pandemic context. The country estimates that the number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition...

2020 03 April

Number of hungry people spikes in Central Sahel as COVID19 looms

David Martin | COVID19 Humanitarian field SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The humanitarian crisis in the Central Sahel region of Africa is spiralling out of control - with more than 5 million people facing severe food insecurity across the region, according to a new joint food security assessment released by food security partners including the United...

2020 13 February

UK provides UNICEF with new funding to tackle child malnutrition in Niger

David Martin | Investments SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development is supporting the UNICEF nutrition programme in Niger with an additional contribution of US$6,7 million over a period of two years. This new contribution will support UNICEF and partners in their efforts to contribute to reducing the incidence...

2020 06 February

UN raises alarm in the Central Sahel where millions face hunger

David Martin | SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Joint FAO, UNICEF and WFP press release The number of people facing a critical lack of food and vital livelihood opportunities in the Central Sahel has spiked in one year due to rising insecurity and climatic shocks. The situation may further deteriorate unless the international community...

2019 21 October

Global Hunger Index 2019: the challenge of hunger and climate change

David Martin | Global initiatives Research SUN Civil Society Network 0

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger persists in many countries, and in some instances progress is even being reversed. The GHI...

2019 02 September

Multi-sector programmes at the sub-national level: insights from Ethiopia, Niger and Bangladesh

David Martin | ENN Info systems SUN Country Network 0

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2019 29 July

Nutrition Forum in Mali ends with strong commitments to make nutrition a political and a financial priority

David Martin | SUN Country Network, SUN Lead Group and Secretariat, SUN UN Network 0

The second National Forum for Nutrition closed in Bamako, with the strongest commitment of the Republic of Mali and other stakeholders, to ensure nutrition is a political and financial priority – in response to a call to action by a range of world-renowned nutrition champions...

2019 18 July

Reducing stunting through multisectoral efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa

David Martin | Child nutrition Global initiatives Nutrition-Sensitive Regional initiatives Research SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

All Hands on Deck Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa A copublication of the Agence française de développement and the World Bank The report book lays the groundwork for more effective multisectoral action on reducing stunting by analyzing and generating empirical evidence useful for informing the...

2019 22 May

Nine new SUN Movement countries will join the Global Financing Facility

David Martin | SUN Donor Network 0

Following the GFF replenishment event in November 2018 that raised more than USD 1 billion for the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), the GFF announced that 9 countries, all of them part of the SUN Movement (Chad, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, Tajikistan,...

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