World Bank Donates US$50 Million To Fight Hunger And Malnutrition Three United Nations agencies leading the response to a dire hunger and nutrition crisis in South Sudan yesterday said they received US$50 million donation from the World Bank to address food insecurity and malnutrition in the country. 12 September 2017 World Bank Donates US$50 Million To Fight Hunger And Malnutrition
By Jale Richard JUBA, 12 September 2017 [Gurtong]-The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program (WFP) said the World Bank’s support, channeled through South Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture, is vital to maintain the momentum of helping millions of men, women and children who would face starvation without sustained assistance. Early this year famine was declared in some parts of the country but due to massive emergency response, including large-scale food and nutrition assistance, famine conditions in South Sudan have abated. However, the UN said Six million people still face hunger. According to UNICEF, more than 1.1 million children are estimated to suffer from malnutrition across the country, with almost 290,000 severely malnourished in need of urgent humanitarian aid. “With half of South Sudan’s population struggling to feed itself and more than one million children suffering from acute malnutrition, this is vital assistance that will save many lives, while helping communities to help themselves,” said Mahimbo Mdoe, UNICEF’s Representative in South Sudan. UNICEF’s efforts to prevent and treat severe acute malnutrition in children will be significantly scaled up over the next year because of the donation from the World Bank of over US$16 million. Adnan Khan, WFP Representative in South Sudan said the contribution from the World Bank is a step in the right direction towards ending hunger and malnutrition, which both threaten lives and are impediments to child development. WFP will receive nearly US$26 million for food and nutrition assistance to 110,000 people particularly in areas with acute hunger and threatened by famine. “Thanks to the funding from the World Bank, we can work towards a sustainable future by supporting the most vulnerable farmers, pastoralists and fisher folk rebuild their livelihoods,” said Serge Tissot, FAO’s Representative in South Sudan. Tissot said FAO will receive nearly US$8 million to support the recovery of crop, livestock and fisheries production in areas hard hit by food insecurity. “By restoring their livelihoods, ending hunger and extreme poverty can become a reality,” he said. WFP said it has assisted 4.2 million people in South Sudan so far, this year – the highest number of people reached by WFP in South Sudan since independence. In July, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance for 2.9 million people. FAO has assisted 3.9 million people with emergency livelihood kits (fishing, vegetable and crop), and reached 3.1 million livestock under an animal health campaign. In the coming months, FAO will be scaling up its response to farmers in the second planting season in the Equatorias. Posted in: Home, Foreign Aid/Assistance -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orp3K6dOXL22E4Unmw%3DYF2byGsBusvvKaz1RWC7mG4gEg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
