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World Food Programme (WFP) - Tanzania
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Tanzania
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Chad
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Burkina Faso
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies
Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies, published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides an understanding of OCHA's role in the coordination of response to complex emergencies (primarily man-made), explain its relation to the rest of the humanitarian...
United Nations System Key Focal Point - Youth
United Nations System Key Focal Point - Youth web page provides youth resources within the United Nations System.
Scaling Up Poverty Reduction and Global Learning Process, Shanghai, 25-27 May 2004
This World Bank conference brought together some 600 participants around a series of success stories in development, highlighting approaches that work in poverty reduction. The conference, held in Shanghai, was part of a nine-month global learning process, resulting in a searchable database of more...
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in two phases: the first phase was in Geneva in December 2003 and the second phase was in Tunis, Tunisia, in November 2005. The purpose was to discuss the impacts of information and communications technology (ICT) and how to bridge the...
ReliefWeb - Niger
A UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. Includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Niger. It provides the latest updates and information for the country and its humanitarian situation.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Chad
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...