37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
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Rome, 21 October 2010 – A US$ 52 million loan from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the Republic of Uganda will help to lay the basis for agricultural driven rural development.
The loan agreement for the Vegetable Oil Development Project Phase 2 (VODP2) was signed today in Rome by Deo K. Rwabita, Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda, and Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD.
KAMPALA, July 23, 2010—As African policymakers gather in Kampala this week to focus on maternal and child health as a high priority challenge, it’s important to look beyond Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole being largely off-track on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include targets for major reductions in mother and child deaths by 2015. To step up the pace of progress, the region at large could learn valuable lessons from countries that have made extraordinary progress despite the odds.
Press Release No:2010/428/AFR
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2010 -- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today discussed a new Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) that will support Uganda’s National Development Plan (NDP) to help transform the economy.
Acknowledging that Ugandan authorities had successfully maintained macroeconomic stability and pursued reforms leading to impressive growth and poverty reduction over the past two decades, the Directors also noted that Uganda still faces important challenges to accelerate structural transformation, including sizable infrastructure constraints, high population growth, regional disparities, and weaknesses in governance and service delivery.
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Theme: Maternal and Child Health
African Union
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Heads of State and Government of AU member states
14 April 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a new livelihood programme designed to address the underlying causes of food shortages in Karamoja, the poorest and most marginalised region in Uganda which has not had a successful harvest in five years and where more than 80 per cent of the population lives in poverty.
“Karamoja needs to find a way out of the almost continual need for food and other assistance and WFP is a vital part of the solution,” said WFP Uganda Country Director Stanlake Samkange.
10 March 2010 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is sending $50,000 in emergency funding to Uganda where deadly mudslides and flooding have left hundreds of thousands of people in need of shelter, food, safe water and proper sanitation, and at an increased risk of water-borne diseases.
The $50,000 will be used to procure urgently needed medical supplies, the agency reported. It will also help alleviate the costs associated with relocating or recruiting health workers, assisting with psycho-social support and training village health teams.
At least 92 people have been killed and hundreds of others are unaccounted for after a massive landslide on 1 March in Bududa district, near the extinct volcano of Mount Elgon on the Kenyan border.
Location: Kampala, Uganda
CAADP Roundtable process
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November 23, 2009—The World Bank’s World Development Report 2008 highlighted the key role of agriculture in meeting the 2015 targets laid out by the Millennium Development Goals. Soon after the report was published in late 2007, the global food crisis sharply underlined the need for sound agricultural policy and stronger agricultural information systems.
The World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working together on a new initiative aimed at improving agricultural data in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of this project is engagement with government counterparts in both line ministries and national statistical offices to design and implement panel household surveys emphasizing agriculture.
14 October 2009 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm on the worsening humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa today, noting that nearly five million children under the age of five in the region are now hungry.
This marks an increase of 1 million since May, while the number of people in need of emergency assistance in the region has also risen, climbing from 20 million earlier this year to 24 million, the agency said.
During 2009, some 500,000 under-five children will suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition.
The food insecurity has been in large part triggered by prolonged drought resulting in less than half the normal rainfall, which has lead to enormous losses in livestock and surging food prices.
2 October 2009 – More than a million Ugandans driven from their homes by decades of violent conflict are gradually moving back to their homeland in the north of the country thanks to an innovative United Nations-backed farming project, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said today.
A new rice-based farming system aimed at improving food security and reducing poverty in Uganda has enabled the incremental return of around 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) after living in makeshift camps for more than 20 years.
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis