USAID Provides $22 Million to Support Resilience and Food Security in Madagascar State Department and Notre Dame Host Academic Centers of Conflict Anticipation and Prevention Conference Joint Statement on the Global Forum to Prevent Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism Highlights from the COP 29 Global Methane Pledge Ministerial The Bureau of Energy Resources Announces New Support to Advance Energy Security, Transition, and Decarbonization USAID Provides $22 Million to Support Resilience and Food Security in Madagascar United States Agency for International Development Press Release November 15, 2024 The United States, through USAID, is providing more than $22 million in additional assistance to build resilience and improve food security for Madagascar’s most vulnerable people. The funding, representing the first year of two new five-year resilience and food security projects, will help our partners reach up to 88,000 extremely poor and marginalized households in the Androy, Anosy, and Atsimo Atsinanana regions of Madagascar. This assistance, which will be implemented by consortiums led by USAID partners Catholic Relief Services and Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, will support marginalized households to build sustainable livelihoods, develop financial capital, and increase their savings and assets. It will also support households to access existing health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene services, and bolster households' capacity to withstand future shocks and stresses. This support builds on USAID’s long standing emergency programming in Madagascar to respond to recurrent disasters like drought and cyclones, as well as efforts to strengthen emergency response and increase resilience in the face of these disasters. The United States has provided nearly $103 million for humanitarian assistance in Madagascar in Fiscal Year 2024 and remains committed to supporting the people of Madagascar. State …
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