For the second consecutive year, the region must prepare for a major food and nutrition crisis in 2021. The March update indicates that 27.1 million people might need...
In support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Member States and country offices, the FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (SFE) in 2018 published a five–year Resilience Strategy and a two–year Resilience Programme of Work 2018–2019. Thanks to generous contributions from resource partners, a significant part of the Programme of Work has been implemented.
However, in order to sustainably transform the lives and livelihoods of Eastern Africa’s rural population and reduce the number of people facing acute food insecurity, FAO must bring these programmes to scale, learn (openly) from both its successes and failures, and make the deliberate choice of building multi–dimensional partnerships.
East Africa Resilience Strategy 2018–2022: Programme of Work 2020–2021
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