l'INITIATIVE AGIR

Vers la résilience des populations,

Par Cyprien Fabre, ECHO

Nous vous proposons ci-après une présentation de M. Cyprien Fabre, Chef du Bureau ECHO pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest, au colloque international sur "l'agriculture, la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle" de l'Association des Femmes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.

For more go to http://ec.europa.eu/echo/policies/resilience/agir_en.htm - http://ec.europa.eu/echo/ 

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Defusing the Sahel time bomb – ECHO Director General visits the Sahel

 

At the beginning of the 2013 lean season in the Sahel, when people´s resources and food reserves start running low, ECHO´s Director General, Claus Sørensen, visited the region. Here is what he found on the ground.

 

 

 

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Mauritanie : 18 jours pour sauver Saada, 16 mois

Par la Croix Rouge Française / ECHO

 

Dans la région mauritanienne du Gorgol, près de la frontière sénégalaise, 13% des enfants de moins de cinq ans souffrent de malnutrition aigüe. Depuis 2007, ECHO finance la Croix Rouge Française et la Croix Rouge Mauritanienne afin d’appuyer le système de santé pour une meilleure prise en charge des cas de malnutrition. 10 500 enfants et ceux qui les accompagnent reçoivent une assistance à travers ce programme. Ici, nous suivons Saada Diallo et sa mère Fatimata qui ont bénéficié de ce programme.

 

 

 

Mauritania: 18 days to save Saada, 16 months

In the Mauritanian region of Gorgol, close to the Senegalese border, 13% of children under five suffer from acute malnutrition. Since 2007, ECHO finances the French Red Cross and Mauritanian Red Crescent to support the health system in taking better care of malnutrition cases. 10,500 children and those accompanying them receive assistance via this programme. We follow Saada Diallo and his mother Fatimata through the course of the programme.

 

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Partners in the Sahel moving towards a common roadmap on resilience

By the stakeholders of the AGIR Alliance

Following a series of consultations between Sahelian and West African countries, West African regional organisations, organisations of agricultural producers and pastoralists, the private sector, the civil society, financial partners and non-governmental organisations, stakeholders involved in food and nutritional security met in Ouagadougou on 6 December 2012 within the framework of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) to seal the Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative - Sahel and West Africa.

Mère et Enfant. CRÉDIT: ECHO

Stakeholders agreed to define resilience as the capacity of vulnerable households, families and systems to face uncertainty and the risk of shocks, to withstand and respond effectively to shocks, as well as to recover and adapt in a sustainable manner.

The general objective set by the stakeholders is to: Structurally and sustainably reduce food and nutritional vulnerability by supporting the implementation of Sahelian and West African policies.

The Alliance aims to achieve ‘Zero Hunger’, eliminating hunger and malnutrition, within the next 20 years. A roadmap, based on the Ouagadoubou declaration and scheduled for 2013, will provide quantitative specific objectives and monitoring indicators.