IFAD President: "Rural youth need investment to build their own future" – Africa Food Systems Forum.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is stressing that investing in rural development and transforming food systems is essential to ending hunger, reducing poverty, and building long-term resilience to any type of shocks.
WHO releases new reports and estimates highlighting urgent gaps in mental health.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )WHO today releases two major reports — the Mental Health Atlas 2024 and the World Mental Health Today — alongside updated suicide estimates, presenting the most comprehensive evidence yet on the urgent need to strengthen mental health services and prevent
WHO updates list of essential medicines to include key cancer, diabetes treatments.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released updated editions of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc), adding new treatments for various types of cancer and for diabetes with associated comorb
IFAD and EADB to co-finance rural development in East Africa.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the East Africa Development Bank (EADB) signed a cofinancing agreement to increase their impact through combined investment in IFAD’s projects for rural development and food systems transforma
Global hunger declines, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (News )It is projected that 512 million people could be chronically undernourished by 2030. Almost 60 percent of those will be in Africa.
IFAD supports five million rural people to strengthen climate resilience in Ethiopia’s lowlands.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia signed a financing agreement to launch the second phase of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project.
Africa speaks out: WHO consultations bring urgency and hope to health worker migration crisis.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )From Praia to Port Louis, governments and health professionals are sounding the alarm: Africa is losing too many of its trained health workers to international migration
WHO designates new WHO-Listed Authorities, strengthening global access to quality-assured medical products.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )WHO expands the growing list of WLAs, now involving 39 agencies across the world, supporting faster and broader access to quality-assured medical products, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).