In Numbers USD 5.5 m six months (January 2024- June 2024) net funding requirements Operational Updates WFP and the Government of Saint Lucia entered a new agreement to augment the existing Caribbean...
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In Numbers USD 5.5 m six months (January 2024- June 2024) net funding requirements Operational Updates WFP and the Government of Saint Lucia entered a new agreement to augment the existing Caribbean...
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FRANCESCO VAROTTO, CLARA ARIZA, ROBERTO MENDEZ, NARAYA CARRASCO, SURANGA KAHANDAWA Recovery takes time. Six years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, among other...
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OVERALL PROGRESS For the first six months of 2023, the Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross Society has spent substantial time on fostering a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of...
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In Numbers USD 6 m six months (November 2023- April 2024) net funding requirements, representing 51 percent of total Operational Update Following the sixth round of surveys on food security and...
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Bridgetown, Barbados, November 23, 2023. Yesterday, the FirstCaribbean International ComTrust Foundation and CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) met to celebrate...
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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, October 20, 2023. CCRIF SPC made two payouts totalling US$3.4 million to the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the British Virgin Islands following Tropical Storm...
The Caribbean island of Barbuda still bears the battle scars of its most brutal encounter with climate change. In 2017, Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 leviathan of unprecedented power, roared across...
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In Numbers USD 10.7 m six months (September 2023 – February 2024) net funding requirements, representing 78 percent of total Operational Updates • WFP’s Regional Director for Latin America and the...
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New York - At the UN Climate Ambition Summit today in New York, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced the development of a large-scale, collaborative push to establish life-saving Early...
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In Numbers USD 8.3 m six-month (August 2023 – January 2024) net funding requirements, representing 55 percent of the total Operational Updates On 7 July, WFP Executive Director, Mrs. Cindy McCain,...
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In Numbers USD 356,550 cash-based transfers made* USD 8.6 m six months (July-December 2023) net funding requirements, representing 54 percent of the total 2,959 people assisted* in JUNE 2023 ...
INTRODUCTION A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred at 06:33:23 (UTC) on 20 December 2022, 95.5 km (59.4 mi) W of Codrington, Antigua and Barbuda; 120 km (74.8) SW of Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda and...
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Overview In 2022, the world faced a food crisis of unprecedented proportions which was exacerbated by the Ukraine crisis. The socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 - coupled with the cost of living...
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Overview In 2022, WFP transited from the Interim Multi-Country Strategic Plan 2020-2022 (IMCSP), which finished in February, to the new Multi-Country Strategic Plan 2022-2026 (MCSP), which started in...
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Summary Date of assessment: 22 February 2023 [...] Background information Exposure assessment Diphtheria Between 2012 and 2021, the Region of the Americas recorded an annual median of 57 confirmed...
Natural disasters propagate gender-differentiated effects. Women and girls are disproportionally impacted owing to existing inequalities in access to endowments, economic opportunities, and agency...
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Caribbean countries are exposed to high levels of risks from natural hazards, which can have significant negative impacts on their economic and fiscal stability. In recent years, countries in the...
CONTEXT The Caribbean region is highly prone to disasters, causing destruction of infrastructure and property, loss of income, and costs as individuals and businesses work around disruptions...
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DONALD R ROTHWELL Small island states are now adopting a determined strategy of “lawfare” to bring attention to environmental threats. The call for a global response to the impact of climate change...
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Excerpt NATIONAL SOCIETIES’ PROFILES The 13 National Societies of the Dutch and English speaking Caribbean countries vary in size, while sharing common values and principles and facing similar...