06/04/2020
The past year marked a time of growth and renewed commitments for FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism, the principal pooled funding mechanism for partners willing to contribute flexible voluntary resources to the Organization. In 2019, FMM membership doubled from four to eight resource partners and commitments for the current phase amounted...

13/12/2019
On December 10 2019, Norway through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) officially signed an agreement to become a contributing member of FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM). The agreement, which was signed by FAO Assistant Director-General Roberto Ridolfi and Norad Director Mette Møglestue, commits to support of NOK...

06/12/2019
On Friday, 29 November 2019, the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) held its second Resource Partner Consultation meeting of the year at FAO Headquarters in Rome. The consultation opened with Director-General Qu Dongyu giving the opening remarks, and stressing the importance of robust flexible funding mechanisms like FMM in enabling innovation,...

02/12/2019
In the Bolivian countryside an appetizing industry has taken off, bringing a sweet new business to rural communities: chocolate production.