The work of FAO on Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) adopts a holistic, multi-faceted approach which takes into account the mutually reinforcing linkages between energy and nutrition, disaster risks and climate change, conflict, health, gender, protection and livelihoods.
The multidimensional impacts of disaster on health, nutrition, hygiene, security, protection, education, and livelihood of women are an absolute threat to the human rights and the dignity of the vulnerable women that are major hindrance in accomplishing MDG development agenda.
The report presents Save the Children's work over the last year, looking at each of its priority sectors (health and nutrition, education, child protection, shelter, food security and livelihoods, and water, sanitation and hygiene) in turn.
He called for an urgent escalation of humanitarian efforts to stop the crisis in the Sahel and made renewed calls for tackling the region's high levels of malnutrition through improved health systems, social services, social protection, and support for sustainable livelihoods and behaviour change.
UNICEF sees the current crisis as a new opportunity to tackle the causes of chronically high malnutrition in the Sahel by helping governments and communities build robust health systems, social services, social protection and support for sustainable livelihoods and behavioural change.
Right now, poppy farmers derive protection and their livelihood from those running the illicit drug trade.
"This crucial time will allow women and men to leave their abusive partners safely - get the help, protection and support they need knowing their livelihood is secure.
In Indonesia, the stated aim of Disaster Management Law 24/2007 is providing protection for life and livelihood including protection against disasters in order to attain public welfare.
However, the exclusive focus on securitization and marketization have been counterproductive for peacebuilding since these interventions render invisible issues connected to land ownership, environmental protection and sustainable livelihoods and mirror pre-war governing arrangements in which corruption, exclusion and exploitation took root.
Such factors have the potential to push children into the cycle of drug abuse," says UNICEF's Head of Child Protection and Adolescent Livelihoods in the Maldives, Laura Fragiacomo.
