Assistant Administrator for Global Health Dr. Atul Gawande made this known signed Wednesday.
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The team lead of the CSOs, Suleiman Ahmed, made the call during an Advocacy to the Bauchi State Ministry of Education in Bauchi, the State capital.
The program was launched in 2020 to bridge the gender gap within the energy sector and equip women with essential skills and knowledge to thrive and grow in their careers.
These skills the agency in a statement said will enable children and youth affected by insecurity crises and conflicts to progress to higher levels of education, training, or engagement in the workforce.
Speaking at a meeting with a team from USAID Feed the Future Nigeria, on Friday, in Calabar the state capital, Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Okon Owuna, said ICT would improve farm extension services in the state.
At the outset of 2021, we all had high hopes of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, another variant has come to the center stage of global concern. However, thanks to renewed global health collaboration efforts, vaccine development and distribution is gradually making headway.
The MoU is the first step towards enhancing urban water service delivery in Lagos State by improving infrastructure and accountability, strengthening regulatory oversight of the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission, and strengthening the governance, financial and technical capabilities of Lagos water utilities and private sector water vendors.
The award organised by Stop TB Partnership Nigeria in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) USAID, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme among others in Abuja was in honour and recognizion of those who have contributed to the fight against the deadly disease (Tuberculosis).
Nigeria currently faces a food security crisis that is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has significantly disrupted already fragile agricultural value chains across the country, including smallholder farmers’ ability to produce, process, and distribute food. This disruption to agricultural productivity and limited access to markets has a negative impact on livelihoods, especially among the most vulnerable households, women, and youth.
We appreciate Nigeria’s leadership in the region, standing up for the integrity of democratic nations in West Africa. Nigeria was among the first to condemn the recent coup in Guinea, regularly recognizes the need for presidential term limits, and supports its best and brightest to serve in the highest ranks of international organizations – most recently demonstrated by Chikwe Ihekweazu’s recent appointment to Assistant Director-General at the World Health Organization.
The interagency team included the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Mission Director, Katie Donohoe; U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Country Director, Dr. Mary Boyd; U.S. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Country Director, Dr. Laura Chittenden; and PEPFAR Coordinator, Mark Giambrone. The Director General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) was part of the joint delegation.
The charge was given by BA-N’s State Behaviour Change and Advocacy Core Group when they paid a courtesy visit to the governor’s wife
The USAID Mission Director Dr. Anne Patterson, joined Nigerian education officials and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to mark the ceremony.
Eighty of the children are from displaced Fulani communities that resettled in Ungwan Gwandara, while 20 are locals from the host community.
The distribution was launched at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, by Governor Seyi Makinde.
This was revealed during a press briefing held at the Ministry of Health headquarters, Abakaliki, on Monday, as part of events marking this year’s World Breastfeeding Week.
The activity was recently launched in Adamawa and Bauchi states.
This agency said it will achieve this goal through its State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2state) activity, which will last for a period of five years, 2020-2025.
The USAID/Nigeria Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics activity, a part of the global USAID MOMENTUM project, will reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity by supporting institutions and local organisations to introduce, scale-up and sustain evidence-based prevention and surgical management of obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation, mitigating the adverse effects and complications of these conditions.
Known as: Improving Sanitation, Hygiene and Safe Drinking Water in North West Nigeria, the activity to be managed by UNICEF will provide life-saving WASH services to more than 300,000 people in need of assistance.