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Food Security: Hunger and Drought in Niger

This week USDA and USAID hosted the International Food Aid and Development Conference. The event addresses policy and operational issues related to food aid and development and aims to improve cooperation among government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and agricultural and transportation sector companies. IRD has been highlighting stories, photos, and videos on our Facebook and Twitter channels this week to further the discussion on food security. We also polled our Facebook followers to see which world region they believed had the biggest food security challenges. While 83% of those who responded thought Sub-Saharan Africa was the hungriest and 17% thought Asia & the Pacific, the correct answer is Asia & the Pacific. Of the estimated 925 million people in our world who are hungry, 62% live in Asia & the Pacific, 26% live in Sub-Saharan Africa. more

Eighty-Nine Percent More Kids Finishing School in Cambodia

A two-hour boat ride on a warm breezy day takes us to Prey Kri Choeung Primary School, near the base of a rocky mountain in Prey Kri Tbong village in Cambodia’s Kampong Chhnang Province. There, Rath Khemra, a local Food for Education field monitor with the non-profit International Relief & Development (IRD), stops by to attend a local school support committee meeting. The schoolmaster, Hung Phalla, tells the group how delighted she is that USDA’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education program is contributing to significant improvements in her school. She notes the increased school attendance and enrollment rates of school-aged children and their teachers. “All of this has made for much better education in my school,” she says, adding that “the physical appearance of the students is healthier as well.” more

Third-Party Monitoring of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund

Project monitoring and reporting can be difficult in some developing regions due to lack of infrastructure and technology. As a result, implementers are sometimes able to provide donors with only limited data, making it difficult to determine whether a program is achieving desired results. To address this, IRD is strengthening the World Bank’s ability to effectively monitor the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) by ensuring year-round access to project sites across the country. more

IRD and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation Team to Increase Water Security in Somalia

ARLINGTON, VA – International Relief & Development (IRD), a major implementer of U.S. foreign assistance and a leader in the international stabilization and development community, today announced a partnership with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) to increase the water security of thousands... more

Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Jordan

Amman, Jordan - In collaboration with IRD, the Jordanian National Breast Cancer Program organized a Breast Cancer Early Detection workshop in March 2009. The workshop was sponsored by the Strategic Health Support (SHS) program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, which relies on a network of t... more