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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSahel - Early action and scale-up of emergency response - 2018
Joint position paper
2018Also available in:
No results found.FAO, UNICEF and WFP have issued a joint position paper providing an overview of the food security, malnutrition and livelihood situation in the Sahel and calling for early action to respond to the most pressing needs. The analysis includes the latest data available following the November 2017 Cadre Harmonisé (CH) exercise. In the past months, several factors have exacerbated the food security and nutrition situation for specific livelihood groups including pastoralists in the first place. The majority of the vulnerable populations is likely to be similarly affected during the upcoming lean season. To address the immediate needs of the most vulnerable over the next twelve months, FAO, UNICEF and WFP have developed a common programmatic approach which also aims to address longer-term structural challenges. Timely support from all partners including donors can help mitigate the current and foreseen deterioration of the situation in the Sahel. This is also key to break the vicious circle of chronic hunger and malnutrition affecting millions of vulnerable people in this region. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSahel | Regional overview (October 2018)
Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger and Senegal
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Countries in the Sahel are among the most at risk of crises and disasters. Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, frequent droughts and floods, and land degradation threaten the livelihoods of highly vulnerable communities. In the last decade, a spike in armed conflict and violence has exacerbated chronic needs, forced the displacement of entire communities and disrupted livelihoods. This has resulted in a 300-percent increase in the number of people severely food insecure compared with 2017 ‒ levels unseen since the crisis of 2012. In response, FAO is committed to restoring livestock production ‒ often the only source of livelihood for pastoralists ‒ to improve food security and self-reliance, and is working together with governments and partners to address both the immediate needs and longer-term structural challenges. -
DocumentDisaster Risk Management Strategy in West Africa and the Sahel | FAO (2011-2013) 2011
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Every year, countries of the West Africa and Sahel subregion are adversely affected by natural disasters, such as droughts and floods, as well as transboundary animal diseases, economic crises and civil conflicts. These events result in losses of life, assets and livelihoods, consequently weakening the food and nutrition security of the populations. Given the increasing frequency and complexity of such crises, a holistic approach is needed. Such an approach would integrate actions intend ed to strengthen crisis preparedness and to prevent and to mitigate risks through effective and rapid response and interventions that facilitate the transition towards conditions of stability and development. In line with this need, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has elaborated a new Strategic Framework (2010-2019). The goals set in the FAO’s Strategic Framework 2010-2019 are to improve preparedness for and response to food and agricultural threats and emergencies through timely action before, during and after a crisis. The Strategic Framework provides the basis for FAO’s Disaster Risk Management Strategy in West Africa and the Sahel (2011-2013). This subregional strategy provides an integrated approach to planning disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction activities for the relevant FAO country offices, while at the same time laying the foundation for the development of national Plans of Action. The strategy will be impleme nted in coordination with other relevant actors, such as regional and subregional institutions, the governments involved, United Nations agencies and other non-governmental organizations.
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