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ACT Rapid Response Payment Request for US$ 49,846. ACT member AIDRom is planning to respond with distribution of relief food & mineral water, and family hygiene kits.

Emergency: Romanian Authorities Declared State of Emergency After Cold Snap and Severe Snow Fall.

Date of Emergency: 27 January – 15 February 2012 (still ongoing)

Requesting Member(s): Ecumenical Association of Churches in Romania - AIDRom

DETAILS OF THE EMERGENCY:

Building resilience and improving our responses to humanitarian emergencies through innovation and better use of evidence

Introduction

The predicted impact of climate change, rapid and unplanned urbanisation, and conflict mean that the frequency and severity of crises will increase and affect more people in the future. To prepare for this uncertain future we will need to find innovative ways of working and use the best science to help identify the most effective interventions.

CLIMATE CHANGE ENGAGEMENT IN MEXICO

1 - The Government of Mexico (GoM) has requested a Strengthening Social Resilience to Climate Change Development Policy Loan (DPL) in the amount of US$300,751,879.70 million. This request underscores the GoM’s continuing desire to engage with the World Bank in its efforts to promote sustainable, resilient development through improved climate change adaptation and mitigation policies that benefit the poor.

CONFÉRENCE DE L'UNION
Dix-huitième session ordinaire
29 – 30 janvier 2012
Addis-Abeba (Éthiopie)

Assembly/AU/Dec. 391 – 415 (XVIII)
Assembly/AU/Res. 1 (XVIII)
Assembly/AU/Decl. 1 - 3 (XVIII)

Coopération suisse avec le Mali: Les perspectives communes 2012-2015 sont définies

Acta de Compromiso para la implementación de normas mínimas de asistencia humanitaria en Ecuador, SNGR

Getting results from Australian international agricultural research

Media release
Canberra
8 February 2012

The Australia Government is working to deliver more for every dollar it invests in international agricultural research.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said with approximately 1 billion malnourished people in the world, and the global population estimated to grow by a further 2 billion by 2050, it is critical Australia maximises its investment in agricultural science, technology and training.

For many years, the countries of Central Africa have been suffering from the effects of epidemics and endemic diseases, as well as natural and man-made disasters. Conflicts have led to significant population displacements and put at further risk vulnerable groups that are already challenged to provide for themselves. Recently, the increasingly high cost of living has added a further burden to Central African populations.