Promotion of income-generating activities in cotton-producing areas
01/04/2024
Despite measures taken both at the international and national level, child labour is a persistent reality in Burkina Faso. The factors behind the prevalence of child labour in the country are numerous and interconnected. They are linked to socioeconomic, cultural, [...]
Promoting the central importance of the economic and social roles of women in the context of the United Nations Rome-based Agencies Resilience Initiative
24/01/2024
From 2017 to 2023, with support from the Government of Canada, the United Nations Rome-based agencies (RBAs) – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme [...]
Lessons learned and good practices from FAO Peacebuilding Fund projects
07/09/2023
The Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) is the United Nations' instrument of first resort for responding to violent conflict. It was created in 2005 as a multi-year funding mechanism to support post-conflict and peacebuilding activities. Since 2018, the portfolio of projects [...]
Improving resilience through knowledge sharing and the provision of productive assets in Dosso and Maradi regions
30/06/2023
In the Niger, rural women are at the forefront of the agricultural value chain and at the core of household feeding. Nevertheless, they have restricted access to productive resources such as land, agricultural inputs, finance, credit, extension services and technology, [...]
20/04/2023
In a bid to make food security analysis data from West Africa and the Sahel more accessible to a wide range of users, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has collaborated with the Cadre Harmonisé (CH) partners to integrate CH [...]