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Titre : SA-RES : initiative for the Response to the Emergency and the Strengthening of the resilience of vulnerable populations in the SAhelian belt of Cameroon

Pays : Cameroun

Date/Durée : Actual start 2023/01/11 // Planned End2024/10/30

Description
Save the Children (STC) Italy, with its partners in Egypt (Save the Children Egypt, Handicap International, Giving Without Limits Association, El Ber and Al Betisaam) is proposing an action to address barriers to social and economic participation of women and youth, including those living with disability in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt. Assiut’s poverty rate is the highest in Egypt, while indicators such as maternal and infant mortality and women’s empowerment fall well below the national average. Both women and youth living in poverty face significant barriers to accessing decent work and livelThe program aims to provide humanitarian and early resilience assistance and tools to refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, and host communities in Cameroon and Chad, both affected by their respective humanitarian crises. Specifically, the program -formulated in coordination with local authorities and other international humanitarian actors- will focus on the following sectors : Protection, Agriculture and Food Security, Health, and Education, keeping a multi-sectoral approach. Gender Equality, Protection and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, and Water, Sanitation, Environment, Land, Natural Resource Management, and Climate Change are the three main cross-cutting themes of the Initiative.

Buts
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations

Financement : AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development (Government) _ Budget : € 3,000,000

Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (AICS)