Nutrition Situation Overview. As significant scale-up of emergency response since September/October 2011, in combination with the off season harvest and the Deyr (October-December) 2011 harvest has had a considerable impact on improving food access, acute malnutrition, and mortality levels in the southern Somali population.
As a result, famine outcomes characterized by evidence of of all three of the following outcomes, based on the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) version 2.0, are no longer existent in Southern Somalia:
La Embajada de Italia en Guatemala, a través del Programa de Emergencia “RAN Guatemala”, ha llevado a cabo la construcción de ocho casas que fueron entregadas el viernes 24 de febrero a familias afectadas por la TT Agatha.
Mapping of grazing corridors for the Garre and Degodia clans in Wajir and Mandera Counties in Northern Kenya and Moyale, Dolo Ado, Filtu and Hudet Woredas in Southern Ethiopia
Il faut renforcer de toute urgence la protection
des populations civiles durement touchées
(Goma) - L'opération militaire
Kimia II menée par le gouvernement congolais dans l'Est du Congo, appuyée
par les soldats du maintien de la paix des Nations Unies et visant à contrer
les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR, milices hutues
rwandaises), a entraîné un coût inacceptable pour la population civile,
ont déclaré aujourd'hui 84 groupes d'aide humanitaire et de défense des
droits humains constituant la Congo Advocacy Coalition.
Enhanced Protection Urgently Needed
Due to Disastrous Toll on Civilian Populations
(Goma, October 13, 2009) - The
Congolese government's military operation in eastern Congo, Kimia II, backed
by United Nations peacekeepers and aimed at neutralizing the threat from
a Rwandan Hutu militia group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation
of Rwanda (FDLR), has resulted in an unacceptable cost for the civilian
population, said 84 humanitarian and human rights groups in the Congo Advocacy
Coalition today.
THE ITALIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
APPROVED THE NEW THREE YEARS PROGRAM TO SUSTAIN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN THE
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
has approved in October, 2006, the Italian three year Aid and Development
Program to Support the Health Sector in the Palestinian Territories (PAST
, Programma di Aiuto Sanitario ai Territori Palestinesi 2007-2009,). This
program established by the Italian Cooperation Office in Jerusalem corroborates
the Italian Cooperation commitment and experience in defining and
Abstract from the COOPI's Annual Report
2005, January 2006.
Programs in progress:
1) Healthcare organization for the Regions
of Bamingui and Vakaga, Phase 2:
This 11-month Program was begun in November
2004, with a contribution of 331,357,600 CFA Francs from the European Union
- in the framework of the EDF initiatives. It aims to support the process
of health management and reorganization in the two Prefectures, in order
to guarantee equal and efficient access to health services for the population,
by improving the quality of the services.
Résumé des activités de COOPI, Rapport
Annuel 2005, Janvier 2006 .
Programmes en cours:
1. Assistance sanitaire dans la préfecture
de La Vakaga et de La Bamingui Bangoran I Phase:
Le Programme, débuté en novembre 2004
et d'une durée de 11 mois, est financé par l'Union Européenne - dans le
cadre des initiatives du FED - pour un montant de 331.357600 Francs CFA.
Il a pour objectif l'amélioration des processus de gestion et réorganisation
de la situation sanitaire des deux Préfectures afin de garantir à la population
On 1st December 2004, COOPI - Cooperazione
Internazionale signed a letter of agreement with FAO, regarding the following
activities for IDPs and WAPs in Mellit Locality (North Darfur):
- collection, characterization and conservation
of local landraces of millet, sorghum, sesame and groundnut;
- distribution of 40.66 MT of crop and
vegetable seeds and 12,100 tools to 3,000 HHs;
- vaccinations and anti-parasitic treatments
for 10,000 chickens and 68,020 shoats/donkeys belonging to 9,717 HHs;
- broadcasting of 1 MT of local pasture
seeds through distribution to pastoral/nomadic HHs;
The Ethiopian Government has launched an
appeal
to help 11.3 milion people affected by a severe lack of food and drinkable
water. If nothing is done to help them, more people could die than in the
1984 crisis, which killed some 1 million.
The Ethiopian Government, United Nations
and relief NGOs working in Ethiopia want to intervene immediately to help
prevent innumerable deaths.
Mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Peshawar, 20th AB Canal Road, University Town
E-mail: peshawar@coopi.org
General Information
COOPI is an Italian NGO, working since
1965 in developing countries, with development and emergency relief projects.
COOPI is present in Afghanistan and Pakistan since April 2001, in the framework
of a Public Health project in the province of Badghis, in the north west
of the country. After the crisis originated in the known events of September
the 11th, COOPI has strengthened its presence in Pakistan, in order to
Kidnapped: They have been captivated
during the several attacks on the villages launched by the rebels throughout
the war started in 1991. Attacks made in order to destabilise the government
and to punish the civilians whose only alleged guilt had been not to revolt
against what the rebels considered a corrupt government. Onslaughts went
hand in hand with the worst atrocities (houses were looted and burnt, people
mutilated, killed, raped), and torn families apart. The rebels kidnapped
thousands of children, maybe 10.000 since the beginning of the war. The
A civil war has been going on in Sierra
Leone since 1991. A war triggered off by the economic interests in the
rich diamond mines in the northern part of the country. In order to destabilise
what they consider a corrupt government and in order to get control of
the mines, the rebels, led by Foday Sankoh, carry brutal onslaughts on
villages, plundering them, reducing their children to slavery or forcing
them to become soldiers. The difficult and fragile peace process which
has started in July 1999, is leading to the liberation of hundreds of these
