EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The focus of the assessment was to understand awareness of the INEE Minimum Standards (MS), how they are being used, and how they are institutionalized in plans and policies1. In particular, the assessment aimed to measure the value added of the INEE Minimum Standards Handbook to date as a tool for:

• Advocacy

• Coordination

• Program planning and response

• Research

• Institutional change

FAITS MARQUANTS

• Fond CERF de 400 000 dollars alloué pour la réponse au choléra.

• 1240 ménages se seraient déplacés dans le Territoire de Walikale.

• 26 860 personnes retournées bénéficient de plus de 223 tonnes de vivres.

• Forte prévalence de cas de paludisme dans les aires de santé de Kashuga et Kalembe.

I. CONTEXTE GENERAL ET SITUATION SECURITAIRE

Note: Map in 8 pages

Rainer Gonzalez Palau
Social & Strategic Infrastructure Desk Officer

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

UNDP/PAPP’s Development for Freedom: Empowered Lives. Resilient Nation: 2012 – 2014 places the Palestinian People at the centre of development programming geared to support their aspiration for Statehood. It focuses particularly on three geographic areas where the needs and the challenges are the greatest in achieving sustainable human development and statehood: the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Area C.

By Hamadoun Toure, Special to CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Mobile broadband can help Africa reach Millennium Development Goals, says Hamadoun Touré

• He argues that broadband can teach children information technology skills

• Mobile technology is transforming healthcare and banking, Touré says

Editor's note: Dr Hamadoun Touré is secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union -- the U.N.'s specialized agency for information and communication technologies.

Appeal Target: US$ 1,702,082

Balance Requested: US$ 1,329,422

Dear Colleagues,

More than 100,000 households are displaced in Pibor, Uror and Duk counties in Jonglei state of South Sudan and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. This humanitarian crisis is a result of retaliatory attacks in the inter-communal conflict in the state, which continued until late January 2012. The tribal conflict was a result of many factors including: socio-economic, political, historical enmity and presence of small arms.

Mary Alice Salinas

Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and its biggest oil producer. The West African country exports more than two million barrels of crude oil a day.

Despite its oil wealth, however, a new government study says the number of Nigerians sinking into extreme poverty has grown, particularly in the predominantly Muslim north.

VOA sent reporters across the region to hear what some are doing to survive.