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In a keynote speech to members of the Executive Board that oversees the work of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the agency’s Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, today presented her strategic framework for WFP’s role in meeting the huge challenge of feeding the world’s hungry.

“We are standing at the threshold of a brand new era in our work in breaking the cycle of hunger,” Sheeran said on the first day of WFP’s Executive Board meeting in Rome. “We have created progress – and I applaud the many nations that have created great gains against hunger. And yet, every 5 seconds, a child dies from hunger. We must – and can do – better.”

Sheeran underlined WFP’s commitment to the first UN Millennium Development Objective, which calls for a halving of the proportion of hungry folks in the world by 2015. She noted that WFP food and nutritional assistance reaches about 10 per cent with the world’s 850 million hungry, and spoke with the need for resolve to overcome the many obstacles that stand inside the way of progress.

“WFP must continually analyze and adjust its strategies in a rapidly changing world. Climate change, rising commodity costs, and conflicts more than resources, are among the growing challenges facing the world and WFP,” she stated. “As we face these daunting challenges, let me assure you that WFP will work closely with all our partners to try to get ahead of the hunger curve.”

In a speech that highlighted WFP’s partnerships with UN member states, other UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, and other actors on the humanitarian stage, Sheeran spoke of the agency’s unique operational and logistics role, and capacity in disaster prevention, emergencies and sustainable recovery operations.

“We must build bridges between emergencies, rehabilitation and prevention to ensure that there is a firm hand-shake and a smooth hand-over among humanitarian action and long-term sustainable development activities,” she said.

The Executive Board – which has a rotating membership of 36 countries – meets four times a year to review the policy and programmes of WFP. Sheeran, who was speaking to board members for the first time, gave them an overview of her first two months in office, which included trips to Sudan, Chad, and Ethiopia, where she saw at first hand the positive impact that WFP’s local purchases of food have on farmers and markets.

“I met with grain traders, farmers and officials, to explore new and innovative ways of using WFP’s purchasing power in local and regional markets to promote development, food security, and supply stability for small African farmers,” she stated. “Increasing cash contributions have produced it possible for WFP to become a stable and substantial purchaser of surplus food, and not only in Africa. Globally, WFP now buys half our food from the least developed and low-income countries, up from one third only two years ago.”

Executive Board members welcomed Sheeran’s strategic focus, and her understanding of the importance of local procurement. They also supported her calls for a strengthening of partnerships as recommended by the UN High-Level Panel on System-Wide Coherence and her commitment to ensure continued transparency, accountability and credibility.

“Let us make chronic hunger a portion of history,” she told her audience, laying down her own challenge to the global humanitarian community. “Advances in science and technology put this dream within our grasp. One thing is for certain: the world is changing, and WFP has to change with it. For me, this is a challenge that presents us with an opportunity. With the assist of all the good forces gathered here today, I am confident we can succeed.”

Before joining WFP, Sheeran built up more than 20 years of management and leadership experience in diplomacy, government foundations, international journalism and business. Throughout her career – which included a posting as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs in the U.S. State Department – Sheeran focussed on helping developing nations become more self-sufficient through economic empowerment.

Copy with the Executive Director’s statement is available here.

WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency: on average, each year, we give food to 90 million poor individuals to meet their nutritional needs, including 58 million hungry children, in 80 of the world’s poorest countries. WFP – We Feed Men and women.

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The hurricane season is upon us again. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urges individuals and businesses to start planning before hurricane force winds or storm flooding may occur. Early preparations can assist minimize injury and property damage.

EPA’s hurricanes Web site includes information for business operators on preventing and reporting chemical releases due to severe weather, which can be required by law. Local governments and community agencies can find suggestions for preparing and protecting water and wastewater facilities. There is also detailed information for debris planning, since storm debris can occur in enormous amounts that overwhelm local landfills, and can also present serious dangers to human health and the environment.

This information is currently available in English and Spanish. Hurricane preparedness information in Chinese and Vietnamese will be posted on the EPA Web site early subsequent week.

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The share of food aid sourced from farmers inside the developing world and channelled to the hungry rose to its highest level in history last year. Newly published figures inside the latest “Food Aid Flows” report from INTERFAIS, the International Food Aid Information System, show that the total amount of food aid originating in developing countries rose to 2.6 million tonnes in 2006 – nearly 40 per cent of global food aid deliveries.

“Connecting farmers from the developing world to feeding the hungry, helps to create a virtuous circle in fighting poverty and hunger,” said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). “The increase in food aid sourced from developing countries demonstrates that WFP and other humanitarian agencies are making significant purchases in support of farmers and markets within the developing world, and it also shows that developing countries themselves are playing a component in feeding the hungry.”

In 2006, WFP was responsible for 56 percent of all global food aid deliveries including 78 percent of emergency food aid deliveries. When cash donations were provided, last year WFP purchased 77 percent of its food commodities from developing countries – 1.6 million tonnes, valued at US$ 460 million.

This food aid identified inside the INTERFAIS report, was either a direct transfer from developing countries, or purchased in developing countries and delivered to the hungry by non-governmental organisations and other humanitarian agencies like WFP. The report notes that the proportion of food aid sourced from farmers in developing countries has more than tripled more than the past two decades.

The positive growth in food commodity purchases from the developing world comes against the backdrop of an overall decline in the volume of global food aid deliveries in 2006. Compared to the previous year, many governments reduced their donations in 2006.

In accordance with INTERFAIS – which is hosted by WFP to track worldwide donations of food aid – deliveries dropped by 18 per cent, to 6.7 million tonnes last year. This is the continuation of a downward trend in recent years that has put donations at their lowest level since 1973.

One of the many factors that may have contributed to this decline was the scaling back of humanitarian operations inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 2006. There were also relatively few complex humanitarian disasters last year compared to 2005, which witnessed major crises such as the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake and the impact of hurricanes in Central America.

“While donations are declining, the numbers of hungry are growing,” said Josette Sheeran. “With less food available, WFP has to be more creative about how it strives towards meeting the Millennium Development Objective of halving the proportion of hungry people by 2015.”

The “Food Aid Flows 2006″ report and a number of additional statistical tables can be found on the INTERFAIS website (http://www.wfp.org/interfais)

WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency: on average, each year, we give food to 90 million poor folks to meet their nutritional needs, including 58 million hungry children, in 80 of the world’s poorest countries. WFP – We Feed Individuals.

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A poor harvest coupled having a worsening economic crisis will leave more than 4 million men and women in Zimbabwe in need of food assistance by early subsequent year, according to a report issued by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

Since of crop failures in southern provinces and escalating poverty in both rural and urban areas, about 2.1 million folks will face serious food shortages as early as the third quarter of 2007. The number of folks at risk will peak at 4.1 million in the first three months of 2008 – more than a third of Zimbabwe’s estimated population of 11.8 million.

An estimated 352,000 tonnes of cereals and 90,000 tonnes of other food assistance will be required to meet their basic food needs, according to the Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report, based on a joint mission to Zimbabwe by the two UN agencies from 25 April – 18 May.

“While drought devastated crops in many areas, Zimbabwe’s overall production was also hampered by insufficient fertilizer, fuel and tractors and by the country’s crumbling irrigation system,” said Henri Josserand, chief of FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System.

“Most importantly, uneconomic prices set by the government have discouraged many farmers from producing surplus cereals for sale.”

These factors resulted in a six percent decrease inside the amount of land planted with cereals compared with last year, and a substantial reduction in the average yield per hectare. Overall, the mission estimates that the April/May 2007 harvest in Zimbabwe is just 925,000 tonnes of cereals, including 799,000 tonnes of maize and 126,000 tonnes of sorghum and millet – a 44 percent decline from last year’s official estimated output.

The worst-affected provinces are Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, and Midlands, where many families harvested nothing and could run out of food as early as July. Cereal harvest in Manicaland and Masvingo was also about half last year’s.

“Zimbabwe’s looming food crisis is the result of another poor harvest, exacerbated by the country’s unprecedented economic decline, extremely high unemployment, and the impact of HIV/AIDS,” stated Amir Abdulla, WFP’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

“Hyperinflation, currently over 3,700 percent per annum, and the ever plummeting Zimbabwe dollar have drastically reduced people’s purchasing power, greatly limiting access to available food supplies for low and middle income people, particularly in urban areas,” added Kisan Gunjal, Joint CFSAM Mission Leader.

The report estimates that about one million men and women in urban areas will face food shortages over the coming months and could need food assistance; however, additional assessments are required to refine these figures.

Taking into consideration the forthcoming October wheat crop and current stocks, the report estimated that domestic cereal availability is about 1.29 million tonnes against a total national utilization of 2.34 million tonnes – leaving over a million tonnes to be imported.

The government has already contracted for 400,000 tonnes of maize from Malawi and is expected to import a further 239,000 tonnes of wheat and rice, despite the scarcity of foreign reserves. In addition, it’s estimated that 61,000 tonnes of maize could to be brought into the country through informal cross-border trade and in-kind remittances, especially from South Africa – leaving a gap of 352,000 tonnes of cereals to be met by food aid.

Along with its call for substantial food assistance, the report makes recommendations to improve subsequent year’s harvest and national food supply. These would include an adequate and timely supply to farmers of good quality seeds and fertilizer ahead with the subsequent cropping season. It also urges the government and the international community to work jointly on improving food security by investing in farm mechanization and infrastructure, including tractors and rehabilitated irrigation systems.

Finally, the report supports the government’s newly stated aim of moving to market based economy. Specific measures could include a reassessment of producer price controls, allowing farmer-to-farmer grains sales, lifting the ban on private sector imports, and removing restrictions on cross-border trade.

A full copy of the CSFAM report is available here.

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Everyone has heard the warnings and the facts are self-evident. Within the next decade, the world could face a deadly pandemic that could easily kill millions, disrupt the normal flow of life worldwide and create economic havoc. The question has shifted from “what if?” to “what can we do?”

This year, the third annual meeting of the Pacific Well being Summit, June 12-14 in Seattle, focuses on the threat of worldwide pandemics. Delegates from public health, business, well being care, and government from around the Pacific Rim will meet in Seattle to discuss and set plans of action that could assist diminish, deter or defeat a potentially lethal pandemic.

“A global pandemic is the No. 1 health crisis facing our planet,” said Michael Birt, executive director of the Pacific Health Summit. “The good news is that we can develop tangible and effective measures to respond to, and possibly prevent, pandemics. Health-care and policy leaders from around the Pacific Rim have come here to collaborate on these measures. We have the right men and women here to do great things. It will be an effective and influential Summit.”

One with the major issues under review is the need to develop and distribute vaccines in Pacific Rim countries in the frontline of pandemic outbreaks. Last month, members with the World Well being Organization (WHO) agreed on principles for sharing avian influenza virus samples for vaccine research through a global network. New outbreaks in various parts of the world have created the need for collaboration on avian influenza and other pandemics paramount.

“If an influenza pandemic emerges, the traditional ‘just in time’ distribution model will simply be too late,” said Joe Hogan, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, a founding sponsor with the Pacific Health Summit. “Now is the time for governments, non-governmental organizations, academia and businesses to work together to strategy for a pandemic and to ensure everyone has access to vaccines and other medical technologies when they need them.”

The 2007 Pacific Wellness Summit will showcase and discuss the profound policy implications of possible new scientific and technological developments related to improved vaccine capabilities for avian influenza. The timing of the discussion and the possible scientific breakthroughs are a unique opportunity to launch global efforts at pandemic preparedness that could yield much more effective and equitable responses for both developing and developed worlds.

Participants in the 2007 Pacific Well being Summit include:

— Margaret Chan, M.D., Director-General, World Health Organization

— Tadataka Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., President, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

— Nils Daulaire, M.D., President and CEO, Global Wellness Council

— Huqun Bai, Deputy Director-General, Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Wellness, China

— Anna Barker, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Strategic Scientific Initiatives, National Cancer Institute

— William Castell, Chairman, The Wellcome Trust

— Zhu Chen, Ph.D., Vice President and Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences — Chris Elias, M.D., M.P.H., President, PATH

— Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Well being, Council on Foreign Relations

— Bruce Gellin, M.D., M.P.H., Director, National Vaccine Program Office, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

— David Heymann, M.D., Assistant Director-General, Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization

— Joe Hogan, President and CEO, GE Healthcare

— Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., President, Institute for Systems Biology

— David Nabarro, M.D., UN System Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza

— Triono Soendoro, Ph.D., Director-General, National Institute of Wellness Research and Development, Ministry of Wellness, Indonesia

— Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

About the Pacific Health Summit

The Pacific Well being Summit launched in 2005 to connect science and policy for a healthier world and, now in its third year, has become widely recognized as an important event on the global health calendar. The invitation-only Pacific Well being Summit brings together a broad spectrum of stakeholders necessary for an effective response to key health issues, a unique model where agendas are set aside for the global greater good. The Pacific Well being Summit is co-presented by The National Bureau of Asian Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Russell Family Foundation is the founding organization for the Summit. For more information, please visit http://www.pacifichealthsummit.org.

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An innovative approach is showing progress in addressing severe acute malnutrition, which affects an estimated 20 million children under the age of five worldwide. The approach combines community-based care for severely malnourished children with traditional hospital-based remedy.

A statement by the World Wellness Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) and UNICEF issued today highlights new evidence that about three-quarters of children with severe acute malnutrition – those who have a good appetite and no medical complications – can be treated at home with highly fortified, ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs).

These are palatable, soft and crushable nutrient- and energy-rich foods that can be eaten by children over the age of six months without adding water, thereby reducing the risk of bacterial infection. RUTFs present the nutrients required to treat a severely malnourished child at home, without refrigeration, and even when hygiene conditions are not perfect. The technology to produce RUTFs is relatively simple and could be used in all countries with high levels of severe acute malnutrition.

The traditional response to severe acute malnutrition has been to refer children to a hospital or specialized in-patient treatment unit, to be fed special milk-based diets. Though this remedy is effective, families may not have easy access to wellness facilities that could supply such care in the poorest countries where the majority of children with severe acute malnutrition live. In-patient therapy may not be an option for parents who simply cannot leave their homes for several weeks. Furthermore, severely malnourished children are vulnerable to infections as a result of weak immunity and could be at risk in crowded hospital wards.

When implemented on a large scale, and properly combined with hospital remedy for children with complications, community-based management of severe acute malnutrition could prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children each year. The approach has already greatly improved survival rates for severely malnourished children in emergencies in such countries as Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Sudan. The aim is to expand the approach to reach the larger numbers of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, who live in communities untouched by emergencies.

Severe acute malnutrition kills a minimum of an estimated one million children each year – an average of 1 child every thirty seconds. These children are up to 20 times more likely to die than well-nourished children.

“The 20 million children under five inside the world today who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition urgently need treatment. This integrated approach really should present a new impetus,” stated Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. “It is urgent that this approach, along with preventive action, be added to the list of cost-effective interventions being used to improve nutrition and reduce child mortality.”

Emphasising the importance of the three UN agencies partnering in this endeavour, Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director, said: “With this new approach, we have the right product composition to save millions of young lives: this is an example with the new technology and capacity which bring us closer to achieving the first Millennium Development Goal.”

The community-based approach brings services close to people’s homes, so that families can identify children with severe acute malnutrition before the onset of life-threatening complications. Children are treated by heath workers with basic oral medication and given a weekly supply of RUTF. Meanwhile, parents can learn how to assist malnourished children and pinpoint danger signs.

“Ready-to-use therapeutic foods have proven very effective in addressing severe acute malnutrition in children,” says UNICEF Executive Director and Chair of the SCN, Ann M. Veneman. “Malnutrition plays a part in some 53 per cent of the deaths of children under five years old, so these interventions are an important tool in reducing child mortality.”

The joint statement stresses the importance of measures including optimal infant and young child feeding, ensuring access to quality foods, improved water and sanitation systems and hygienic practices, and strengthening and improving access to well being services.

– Download the Joint Statement on Community-Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today thatit will present technical assistance to support an emergency operation inLebanon mounted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for PalestineRefugees inside the Near East (UNRWA). The operation will assist peopledisplaced by the ongoing clashes in two of the largest Palestinian refugeecamps, al-Hilwah and Nahr al-Bared.

At the request of UNRWA, WFP has deployed three staff to supply support inlogistics, communications and coordination of assistance among partners.

On Monday (4 June), UNRWA issued a flash appeal for US$12.6 million toassist an estimated 27,000 men and women displaced from the Nahr al-Bared camp.The agency estimates that most of the camp’s population has fled, seekingshelter with relatives, in UNRWA schools or within the nearby Beddawi camp,where living conditions are now seriously threatened as the population hasmore than doubled – to 37,000. Those still remaining in Beddawi camp arewithout adequate water and sanitation.

“We are concerned for the safety and welfare of thousands of refugees bothinside Beddawi camp as well as those who have fled to other areas; manyare still without power, medical support or supplies,” said Naila Sabra, WFP’sRegional Director for the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.”WFP is working closely with UNRWA and the UN country team to reach thosein need,” she added.

Since fighting broke out in Nahr al-Bared camp near the northern city ofTripoli on 20 May, thousands of civilians have fled the camp with only thebelongings they could carry. Clashes erupted earlier this week in a secondcamp, al-Hilwah, near the southern city of Sidon.

Although WFP closed its office in Lebanon in October 2006 right after concludinga three-month emergency operation, it has maintained a national liaisonofficer in Beirut who is monitoring the situation, liaising with UN andother counterparts and participating in emergency preparedness activities,including inter-agency contingency planning processes.

From late July to October 2006, WFP provided food assistance to over810,000 Lebanese who were affected by the bombing of their country lastsummer.

WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency: on average, each year, wegive food to 90 million poor individuals to meet their nutritional needs,including 58 million hungry children, in 80 of the world’s poorestcountries. WFP — We Feed People.
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on May 29 sent a letter to Department with the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urging the department to increase the transparency of tax-exempt organizations, CQ HealthBeat reports. Not-for-profit hospitals and wellness care organizations account for about 75% of revenue among tax-exempt charity organizations, in accordance with CQ HealthBeat.

Grassley in April asked the Government Accountability Office to review how not-for-profit hospitals meet their requirement to provide community benefits in exchange for tax-exempt status. Inside the letter to Paulson, Baucus and Grassley wrote that Internal Revenue Service Form 990, which is used by the not-for-profit sector, “has not kept up with modern practices in the charitable sector and needs significant updating.” A revision of the form would “allow the IRS to better identify those entities that warrant additional review or further questions” and would improve transparency, the senators wrote.

Grassley in a news release said, “Fast and loose games in this area (compensation of charity executives) and others undermines the mission of nonprofits and fosters a public cynicism that’s very detrimental to all charities as they rely on public support and backing for their nonprofit work.” Baucus in the same release complimented the work of not-for-profit organizations, adding that it can be “important to ensure, however, that these organizations receiving tax-exempt status earn it on a day-to-day basis and keep their activities and policies in line with the special status conferred on them by the tax code” (CQ HealthBeat, 6/4).

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President Bush’s request last week for a $30 billion, five-year extension with the President’s Emergency Strategy for AIDS Relief did not include an “acknowledgment that the U.S. must in the same time increase [its] commitment towards the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) writes in an opinion piece for The Hill. Lee writes that although PEPFAR “provides critical targeted resources inside the fight against HIV/AIDS in 15 countries,” the Global Fund “provides broader support to 136 countries … that have delivered results that are measurable, tangible and very real.”

According to Lee, the Global Fund, “[u]nder the leadership” of Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine, has “laid out a plan of operation” and “stands ready to rapidly scale up [the Global Fund's] activities and take the subsequent step toward achieving the goal of universal access to care and therapy for all.” However, Global Fund goals “will require the commitment of the international community” and the U.S., Lee writes. To help the Global Fund meet its goals, Lee suggests that Congress allocate $1.3 billion to the organization for fiscal year 2008, which would allow the Global Fund to continue its programs and add new ones.

Results from Global Fund and PEPFAR programs “have been very encouraging,” Lee writes, adding that to “achieve sustainable change and reach the objective of universal access,” the U.S. “must now plan the subsequent phase of the global response” to HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. Lee concludes that she is “confident” Congress will respond in a “bipartisan manner to expand” the U.S. “commitment to PEPFAR and ensure that the Global Fund remains an integral component” within the fight against HIV/AIDS (Lee, The Hill, 6/5).

C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Monday included a discussion with David Gartner, policy director for the Global AIDS Alliance, about President Bush’s PEPFAR funding request (“Washington Journal,” C-SPAN, 6/4). Video of the segment is available online.

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“Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance From the G8, European Commission and Other Donor Governments, 2006,” Kaiser Household Foundation and UNAIDS: The report examines funding for HIV/AIDS services in low- and middle-income countries provided by the Group of Eight industrialized nations and other donor governments. The report tracked funding levels of donor governments and found that in 2006, international HIV/AIDS commitments from the G8, European Commission and other donor governments reached $5.6 billion, its highest level but still short with the estimated need. The U.S. government provides the largest share of donor government funding for HIV/AIDS, accounting for nearly half, or 47%, of funding commitments produced by these governments in 2006, followed by the Netherlands at 17% and the United Kingdom at 14%. However, when donor efforts are assessed based on national wealth, or AIDS funding disbursements per one million dollars of gross domestic product, three non-G8 members — the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland — lead in funding. The U.S. falls inside the middle and Japan and Italy are in the bottom (Kaiser Household Foundation/UNAIDS release, 6/5).

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