Unprecedented extreme weather events linked to climate change are contributing to the current global food and energy price crisis and severely impacting livelihoods and food and nutrition security. In this context, expectations are high for the 27th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) taking place under the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
قيادة مجتمعية لإدارة النفايات على نطاق واسع
معظم حكومات المدن في بُلدان الجنوب العالمي تعاني من صعوبة جمع النفايات، والتي قد تصل عادةً إلى 30٪ من ميزانية البلدية، ولكنها كثيراً ما تترك قطاعات كبيرة من السكان بدون خدمة.
ولكن في القاهرة على مدار السبعين عامًا الماضية، تم تطوير نظام لجمع النفايات بقيادة وإدارة مجتمعية. هذا النظام يقدم ما لا تستطيع الحكومة المحلية توفيره- خدمة منتظمة، من الباب إلى الباب، تكلفة منخفصة، خدمة كثيفة العمالة بمستويات عالية من إعادة التدوير والتي تساهم في التخفيف من حدة الفقر من خلال فرص العمل التي توفرها.
NEW PUBLICATIONS | Impact Evaluation report: Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program – Second round report
Egypt introduced the Takaful and Karama Program (TKP), a pair of targeted cash transfer schemes in March 2015. Takaful and Karama was designed as a conditional cash transfer program providing income support targeted to the poor and most vulnerable; namely poor families with children (under 18 years of age), poor elderly (aged 65 years and above) and persons with severe disability.
Unequal Under the Same Roof: Feminization of Hunger
The annual state of food security and nutrition in the world report[1] published by a group of UN agencies a few months ago revealed some shocking and frustrating updates regarding the prevalence and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition in the world. According to the report, in 2020 almost one third of the world’s population did not have access to adequate food, 811 million individuals suffered from hunger, more than one fifth of children below 5 were stunted, and 45.4 million children were wasted.
NEW PUBLICATION | Egypt: Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crises on Poverty and Food Security
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have witnessed rapid and significant increase in recent months, driven largely by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and associated sanctions im-posed on Russia. Other factors, including governments’ responses and export bans, have also con-tributed to rising prices (Laborde and Mamun 2022). Palm oil and wheat prices increased by 56 and 100 percent in real terms, respectively, between June 2021 and April 2022, with most of the in-crease occurring since February 2022.
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