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Stimulating Innovation and Partnerships With Africa’s Trust Fund

December 22, 2016

The Strategic Value of Unearmarked Funds In 2013, FAO launched the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund, a unique Africa-led initiative to ...

Politics & Foreign Affairs

2016: The Year in Review and What to Expect in 2017

byDavid Pingree

December 16, 2016

As the New Year approaches, numerous columnists and media personalities have been vocal in their lamentations of past year. 'Watch ...

Society

A Life in Limbo: Between Borders

byChiara Castrovillari

December 13, 2016

The shores of Southern Europe are no stranger to asylum seekers. With hands tied, fugitives are forced to walk the ...

SDG Series

IMPAKTER ESSAY: The Unlikely Journey to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

byOlav Kjørven

December 8, 2016

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY, OLAV KJORVEN, UNICEF's Director for Public Partnerships. THIS PIECE IS PART OF A ...

SDG Series

Ending Child Marriage: An Urgent Global Challenge

byAna Perianes

November 30, 2016

Gender equality and women´s empowerment are essential to transform our world. Gender inequality affects women and girls in every country, ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been working with Caritas, a national NGO, and other partners on farming projects at schools in Juba. Teachers have been trained as facilitators to provide onward training to students on urban agriculture and best agronomic practices. The objective is that the students apply the practices they learned at home, diversify their diets by adding vegetables to their main meals, and sell a portion of the crops at markets so the school can reinvest in agriculture next season.

These photos show the efforts at a school in the Kator area of Juba.

Access to water for agriculture purposes has been a main challenge for schools participating in FAOÕs project. The project has therefore provided the school with water harvesting structures (1 per school) to capture rainwater as the rainy season progresses.

Philanthropy

The Strategic Value of Pooled Funds in Development

byMs. Nadine Valat - FAO

November 14, 2016

Since 2010, the FAO has been receiving unearmarked funds. The impact has been significant and the FAO is advocating for ...

Workers pass rocks hand to hand along a line. The United Nations Mission in Haiti's Community Violence Reduction program is employing 1345 local residents in a Cash for Work program building rock walls and planting vegetation as a way of saving arable land and avoiding flooding in lower areas.
Photo Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH

Philanthropy

Cash Transfers, a New Way to Provide Aid

byRodrigue Vinet - Head of the Knowledge Management and Capacity Building for Action and Support

September 12, 2016

Cash Based Programmes Strengthening the resilience of agricultural livelihoods to adverse climate events and economic shocks is a corporate priority ...

SDG Series

Millennials and the SDGs

byPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Former Executive Director at UN Women

August 30, 2016

From Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2016 Oscar acceptance speech on climate change, to Vivienne Westwood’s Climate Revolution Charter, to Will.i.am’s partnership with ...