The United Nations recognize the role of innovative financing during the MDG Summit - Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development. High representatives have strongly supported innovative financing during the MDGs Summit organized by the United Nations last 20-22 September 2010. Speeches of the French President and Prime Minister of Spain, during the opening of the General Assembly, have demonstrated a strong support for a levy on financial transactions to finance development. The Final Declaration, adopted by the United Nations on September 22, refers explicitly for the first time to the role of innovative financing to achieve the MDGs, as well as to the work of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing and to its initiatives undertaken on taxation of international financial transactions and education sector : Ҥ78.
This statement constitutes an important step following the Doha Conference on Financing for Development in December 2008, which already called for “scaling up” innovative financing. Text of the Declaration. UNITAID. Country Profiles -- Home. Www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/IEE/Resolution_IPAEnglish.pdf. About FAO. 2013 The United Nations General Assembly declares the “International Year of Quinoa” with FAO serving as the Secretariat of the IYQ, assisting the International Committee to coordinate the celebrations. Quinoa’s legacy is celebrated at headquarters with Peru and Bolivia during World Food Week. Also, this year a new partnership agreement is signed with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC),the world's largest humanitarian network, to help improve food security and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities.
FAO and the IFRC agree that FAO will provide technical guidance to complement IFRC's extensive network of 13 million volunteers - who in turn reach some 150 million people - to assist poor households cope with threats and disasters that impact agriculture, food security and nutrition. 2006FAO unveils its high-tech Crisis Management Centre to fight bird flu and other animal health or food safety emergencies. Projects - Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Projects Cofinanced with French Fund for Aid and Cooperation (FAC) Projects Cofinanced with France/French Agency for Development (AFD) Projects Cofinanced with France. Www.caadp.net/pdf/GPAFS brief to high level meeting.pdf. Ited Nations: Humanitarian Affairs. About WFP. In emergencies, we get food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters.
After the cause of an emergency has passed, we use food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded. Born in 1961, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. We work towards that vision with our sister UN agencies in Rome -- the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- as well as other government, UN and NGO partners. On average, WFP reaches more than 90 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year.
About 13,500 people work for the organization, most of them in remote areas, directly serving the hungry poor. System Participants - The Secretary General's High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis. "My High-Level Task Force is working to ensure that the UN system, international financial institutions and the WTO are ready to provide robust and consistent support to countries struggling to cope with food insecurity.
This is a long-term effort and it will require a comprehensive push to back solid partnerships, strong strategies and well-financed actions that empower communities to become food secure. " Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon The Task Force is chaired by the UN Secretary-General, with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva serving as Vice-Chairman. Assistant Secretary-General David Nabarro was appointed Coordinator of the Task Force in January 2009. Secretary-General's remarks at High-Level Event on Scaling up Nutrition — UN Headquarters, New York, 20 September 2011 Welcome, all of you: Nutrition leaders from across the UN system. Our valuable development partners, with your great expertise. Partners in civil society who reach out across communities.
Thank you very much.