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AP News Radio
Scarred by war, Ukrainian children carry on after losing parents, homes and innocence
"UNICEF says an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian children are at risk of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. In lviv near the border with Poland, Ukrainian children dance with adults trying to bring some joy in wartime, one of the kids playing 9 year old Andrea recalls the day their house was shelled in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. We ran out of the house but everything was in a white fog. I was wounded right there, then we didn't see dad. When the fog lifted, he found his father on the porch, motionless and covered in blood, after being struck by a Russian projectile, their foster mother, Nina poliakova, told the AP and three is usually calmer than his sister Olga, but that's. At night, there are still births. Sometimes they are screaming hundreds of kids have been killed in Ukraine for the survivors, the wide ranging trauma is certain to leave psychological scars that will follow them into adolescence and adulthood. I am Karen Chammas
UN News
"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"Today, UNICEF has launched the state of the world's children report which sounds most comprehensive ever stop take of where we're at globally on Charlie realization and the worrying news is that over the course of the three years of the pandemic, we saw an unprecedented backsliding in the number of children getting unionized in fact 67 million children missed out on their basic childhood vaccination and the consequences of that are already being seen we're seeing more outbreaks of very infectious childhood diseases which can take children's lives, diseases like measles and diphtheria, polio, tell us what exactly is new about the data that you publishing today. So each year, UNICEF monitors the number of children who are being reached with vaccination and after the three years of the pandemic, we saw this unprecedented decline. So we actually lost something like 30 years worth of progress in three years. And at the same time, we know that that has a direct consequence on lives straight. So we're able to estimate every year how many lives are saved by vaccination and we've seen that number go backwards too already we know that hundreds of thousands will have lost their lives because they weren't vaccinated and that's a completely avoidable. Who are the children who are missing out on vaccinations are there regional differences around the world and who is most likely to be left behind? Even before the pandemic, there were some remote communities, children in more marginalized places that were being missed out for routine chartered immunization. We called them the zero dose children. They tend to be in communities that lack some of the most basic facilities access to healthcare clean water and have multiple deprivations and we already have an issue there. Since the pandemic, though, that number has grown considerably, it is in many parts of the world. It's not just isolated in the most low income countries, but in all of those countries that experience huge disruptions because of COVID-19. So we're seeing this is a really global problem and it will take a global collective effort to catch up all of the missed children. And then the report you say that misinformation during COVID has played a role here. Could you tell us more about the scale of this phenomenon of vaccine misinformation as related to childhood vaccinations? During COVID, we were all talking about vaccines in a way that we never had before. The number of conversations about vaccination went up so much. And in many ways, that was a good thing. It's good for parents and communities to discuss what's best for them for their families for their children. But at the same time, we saw an enormous exposure in the amount of negative information, both misunderstanding and confusion, but also some very deliberately misleading disinformation. And that's appears to have had an impact on top of lots of other causes, untangling the causes of a drop in confidence and uptake in vaccination is a complicated job to do, but we do know that there's been such an increase in misinformation that it's a really, really worrying phenomenon that must be tackled. Do you think vaccine hesitancy is here to stay? Well, there is some very good news, even after all of the worrying signals of the last three years, it's still true that the most respondents when asked will say, yes, I think childhood vaccination is really important. And most people will continue to vaccinate their children, but we are seeing some worrying declines in the levels of confidence and belief in the importance of childhood vaccination. It's not fatal. I think that we can tackle it. We know that there are strategies that work, good community outreach, where we work locally with communities to make sure that they have access to reliable and trustworthy information as well as tackling all of the online spaces in which some of these misleading claims are spreading around, can make a big difference. And finally, what can be done now to accelerate childhood vaccination efforts and help all these countries catch up. What's essential is that every country that's been affected by backsliding immunization now makes very concerted efforts to reach out and identify the children that have missed out. Those are children that were born right before the pandemic or during the pandemic so there almost passed the age when they would have normally got vaccinated. But there's still time to catch them up and make sure they're fully immunized. That action will require political leadership and the right unlocking of resources to make sure that healthcare workers are equipped to go and find those children, give them all of the lifesaving vaccines that they need. And if they don't do that, the consequences will be not just for those children, but for the communities they live in, but there's obviously more and more outbreaks. And as we know from this pandemic, that has a detrimental effect on whole societies. So it's essential that that's prioritized right away..
AP News Radio
Russia loses election to three UN bodies over Ukraine
"Russia did not fare well in recent elections to three UN bodies. I'm Lisa dwyer. Russia has lost elections to three United Nations bodies, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year ago remains strong. This week's votes in the 54 member UN economic and social council follow approval of 6 non binding resolutions against Russia by the 193 member UN General Assembly, Russia was overwhelmingly defeated by Romania for a seat on the commission on the status of women. It lost to Estonia to be a member of the executive board of the UN children's agency UNICEF, and Russia was defeated by Armenia and the Czech Republic in secret ballots for membership on the commission on crime prevention and criminal justice. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
"unicef" Discussed on The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
"More serious regulations and more and more serious pressures from institutions to provide information about who's transacting and we're circumventing KYC. So as crypto grows, it's going to encounter all these things. And you could almost argue that in a bear market, people are cryptos in a weak position to bargain in a certain sense. And we may people may institute pro crypto people may need to give up certain. In order to and they need to be certain things. So yeah, worrying, but the devil's in the details and we'll have to see how things proceed as far as the way I don't know. The way specifically the information is being used and how it can be circumvented, like how effective our VPNs, how effective is using a different RPC, easy that is for users. So ongoing worth monitoring and we'll be there to monitor it. Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that this is kind of for those who are worried about preserving their privacy. It's not kind of the end of meta mask. There are options. You can switch your RPC provider to alchemy or some other way to access the Ethereum blockchain. That's not inferior. So in Fira, and meta are both owned by consensus. So that's the link there of, I think, why only if you're using inferior with meta mask or IP is being stored, but you know, I think this option of using another RPC. You can also use a VPN to mask your IP. So there are alternatives. And in the case of uniswap, yeah, I guess. At least what's happening there is they are not storing users IP and wallets. But they say that if they're being compelled to buy law enforcement, then they'll give up a user's wallet addresses, not IP addresses. And that's important because I think the way that an external party can identify blockchain users is by linking IP addresses with wallets. If you just have a wallet, I think that's harder to do. But yeah, and also it's not like UNICEF is holding all this information right, you know, for everyone. It only if they're being forced to do so they'll hand that over. Yeah. So I think it obviously costs a lot of backlash and promotion, but I don't think it's,
AP News Radio
UNICEF's Nakate warns against new fossil fuel projects in Africa
"A climate activist press conference on the sidelines of cop 27 has called the new new fossil fuel projects in Africa Climate activists and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Venezuela has warned against such projects on the African continent To those who have come to cop 27 with the intention of promoting new fossil fuels I say no we will not let you gas Africa Gas is a dangerous destruction for Africa It feels any new fossil fuel projects would soon become stranded assets which would leave African countries with debt piled upon debt The oil and gas they dig up will be shipped straight back to countries in the global north And the profits in the pockets of the multinational oil and gas companies Other young activists have expressed concern for their future and say those responsible for climate change aren't doing enough to help I'm Charles De Ledesma
Epicenter
"unicef" Discussed on Epicenter
"We also mentioned market makers, can you maybe kind of detail what is the difference between a market maker and a liquidity provider and maybe what's the role of the market makers in Crescent? Yeah, so because we are hybrid text with AMM and auto book at the same time, we it is very important for us to make a synergy with these two different approaches. So AMM provides most robust liquidity also in a micro sense liquidity pool provides better liquidity in a very narrow price range, which is like narrower than zero point 2% or something. So if you are swapping very small amounts, then it will be very efficient to use this liquidity from AMM because AMM is providing liquidity exactly from current price to very near near the current price. But this order book a market maker will provide liquidity on not very near the current price. It will be distanced from current price for about 0.1% to 10.5% for the more volatile token you would be like 1%. So there are some different aspects of liquidity provided within this micro liquidity area, different distribution of liquidity and this different characteristic also. So when you trade in AMM, if you trade one time and then the price will move and then we will not come back until arbitrator trade back. So if you trade again the price will be worse because you already move the price. So this is like inefficiency of AMM. But for the auto book market maker, the market maker will provide the price and then if you consume it and they will replace the order again within exactly the same price again. You can consume it again. So I call this rechargeable liquidity, this is not the case in LP, but the market maker can do this because they can hedge in other markets. So these are like very different characteristics for these two different liquidity and there should be a good way for our community and governance to decide and calculate the contribution of liquidity coming from different methodology and major support of liquidity from different methodology and we need to distribute our incentive wisely so that we can create this very healthy competition between LP and audible market makers. So that we can optimize this capital efficient or liquidity providing incentives. So probably a good amount or listeners have actually provided liquidity before, whether that was on uniswap curve, sushi swap, or osmosis, very popular, also in question, right? So there's like many different places where people have kind of normal people who are like, okay, I can provide liquidity. What's going to happen with that? Is there a future where normal token holder can still provide liquidity on these exchanges or do you think this will all be replaced by professional and sophisticated market makers that can just play this play this new game that's arising? So I think great thing about blockchain ecosystem is that everything every different protocols can be connected each other without any trust assumption or verification assumption. So everything can be connected very well with this code based only. So if we can trust this algorithm, then everything can be connected very well. So I believe that even though the management of capital will be much more difficult in range liquidity, our concentrative liquidity world still there will be professional fund manager participating in this capital management and providing capital from retail investor for this fund. So which is called we are calling this managed P so managed LP is fund operated by professional fund manager, but invested by all these marital investors. So within this minimal trust within this fund manager, we can trust this manager to manage this capital with very restricted functionality within this decentralized document. So I think the future will be more like a ranged LP fund operated by professionals, but invested by retails, so one of the examples is called archives in Ethereum, which is providing this platform for users. So this fund manager has very restricted freedom about how to manage this fund. So it is quite safe for users to invest into because they don't allow any send out all these assets within the fund only. They can do is like a minimal amount of swap or changing the range of the LP that is the all the things manager can do. So I think more of this functionality will be available in the ecosystem. So I think retail investors can participate. But the actual operation can be more delegated to professions. All right, that's cool. So we can remain being LPs in the future too. It's good. So we wanted to, I guess, maybe switch topics a bit. Now we talked a lot about kind of liquidity in the context of this decks of this single network. Now obviously cosmos ecosystem as you mentioned already potentially will have thousands of networks and already has a lot of different taxes and yeah, maybe it would be interesting to hear your thoughts how you can aggregate liquidity across these different ecosystems and maybe add the role that Crescent place in this story. Yes, I think text aggregator is one of the interesting topic to discuss also. So I think in Ethereum, it is a transitional phase right now, like one inch users are trading maybe more than UNICEF frontend users right now. So it's like this is like a golden cross of web two evolving to web three. So web two web three, the definition is that when you, when the traders are locked into one front end, which is uniswap, then they can not utilize other liquidity coming from balancer or sushi sub or other products. So you are jailed into one website so that your back end is also jailed too. So this is web two in our definition. But when you use one inch, then you can reach out to all these taxes even very only one because you don't need any trust on this.
AP News Radio
It's back to school in Ukraine -- but far from normal
"The first day of school in Ukraine will not include children sharing memories of fun vacations with their families their stories are more likely to be on surviving war For many Ukrainian children their last state of school was the day before the February 24 Russian invasion of their country at least 379 children have been killed since the war began while according to Ukraine's general prosecutor's office the whereabouts of over 220 others are unknown UNICEF spokesman James elder says education is critical to a return to normality that's fundamental but the safety of children remains the priority for now Schools that don't have quick access to shelters or are located close to the borders with Belarus and Russia or near active military zones will only have online study I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
25 million kids missed routine vaccinations because of COVID
"The United Nations says a global side effect of the coronavirus pandemic has been children missing out on routine vaccinations I'm Ben Thomas with the latest A report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF says 25 million children last year failed to get vaccinated against diphtheria tetanus and pertussis Those three diseases are seen as markers for childhood immunization coverage It continues a downward trend that began in 2019 before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic UNICEF calls the numbers a red alert for child health warning the lack of vaccinations and the current rise in global malnutrition will result in many lives lost Vaccine coverage fell in every region of the world but the worst effects were seen in East Asia and the Pacific Data shows the vast majority of children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries namely Ethiopia India Indonesia Nigeria and the Philippines I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Nobel sold for Ukrainian kids shatters record at $103.5M
"A Nobel Prize sold off Monday night raised a staggering amount for Ukrainian charity The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for a $103.5 million shattering the old record for a Nobel No word on who bought it muratov said in an interview after the auction I was hoping that there was going to be an enormous amount of solidarity but I was not expecting this to be such a huge amount muratov has said the proceeds will go directly to UNICEF in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine just minutes after bidding ended UNICEF told the auction house It had already received the funds I'm Jennifer King
The Aloönæ Show
"unicef" Discussed on The Aloönæ Show
"Understanding this UNICEF, you know, they just got into the space. You know, if you just look at technology itself, so many people, so many companies are getting into this space and utilizing this in so many different ways. It's just amazing. It excites me. I mean, I can talk about this with like a couple hours. That's exciting it is. Great. Fabulous. So I've heard you got your own online crypto academy. What exactly in your academy do you teach people about crypto? So we open it up and then we have to pull it back for a minute. So by in black truth from academy, we're looking at the basic user. Anywhere from the basic to the mid level to the expert. A basic user. The question is, how do I crypto? What is crypto? When did it come from? How was it formed? We asked the questions like that. We walk you through the process of, you know, what is an exchange? How do you get your feet at crazy? To exchange and buy a crypto asset. We walk you through that process. We walk you through the process of understanding what a blockchain is. We walk you through the process of understanding what the metaverse is. So we go from beginners to expert. And we try to be interactive. We try to have meetings to anyone who wants to join in, irregularly. And we do QAs. I think when you get a person who gets into space as a beginner and put their money, once you put your money into something, of course you want to learn more. And that's what gets you right there. So I think that's what we offer black crypto academy. We give you a place to feel comfortable and understand at an entry level of how to get into this space, and then as you progress, you know, we go to the medium level. Other things you can do when I say medium level. I start talking about.
UN News
"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"The society, most of these number and giving in Ethiopia and in Somalia and Kenya. They kind of say that half of them are children. And when it comes to children, the repercussions are not only on the lifesaving side, where accessing to food access into nutrition for accessing to water and sanitation. But we have seen also that the cushions, like only echo, we have over 500,000 children who drop out of school. I have seen them so that the form of exploitation in abuses against children are spiking. Just one figures in one community today told me that there is a significant increase in child march because parents would think that by giving their daughters to wealthier families, maybe they would get dowry that would give them income, but otherwise, so they would have a possibility of maybe giving their daughters to a wealthier family that can feed them. Just one example that has come to the story that I have witnessed have seen today. Magnetism need to be highlighted also because I have seen the spike between 21 to 27% increase from January 2021 compared to January 2022 in terms of severe and acute malnutrition. And as you know, the severe and acute malnutrition is the extreme form of malnutrition among children. It's a major leading cause to death. It has also once accounts through our life cycle for human being.
UN News
"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"This is Matt wells at UN news, as UN agencies warn of an impending famine situation in Somalia, a prolonged drought crisis in the entire Horn of Africa region is threatening to turn into a catastrophe, a combination of the impacts of climate change, conflict and COVID-19 has created the perfect storm of horror with the war in Ukraine, pushing food and fuel prices up, according to UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, regional director for eastern and Southern Africa, Muhammad M4. He's been in Ethiopia this week assessing the impact of the regional drought on families and children and started by telling UN uses Joshua Mali what he's seen on his trip, not far from the border with Somalia. The Somali programs where I would visit this morning to identity site. And what I have been seeing so far nearly have breaking its population seriously impacted by the severe drought that everyone is talking about. And it has impacted almost all aspects of their life. The IDP I was in touch with have worked through three days before reaching the site, which is close to embodied town. And they have come with almost nothing. They have lost their livelihood. They have lost their livestock, they have their hands completely empty. And they could see also the unique partners are working in the field to provide essential services, mainly services, related to water and sanitation, electrician treatment, for children, was severely impacted. Health education can have seen how the hospital community showing hospitality and generosity and sharing the very scarce resources they have with those IDP. What can be done immediately to help these people in this situation? I think a lot will be done. Let me first say that one of the reasons of my visit is also to increase a bit the visibility around this crisis and because George as you know, we are in a time we are at a time where most of the focus of the international community and the international media is on Ukraine. And if it's not Ukraine, maybe Afghanistan. But I just want to let the international community know that the crisis that is unfolding here is also one of the biggest city monitoring crises and I have spoken to IDPs who told me that the job they are experiencing and facing now is worse than what I have they have seen even in 2016, 17 and 2010, 2011. I think people go back to four decades to remember a job that have this level.
AP News Radio
Ukraine's child refugees a huge challenge for host countries
"According to figures released by UNICEF children account for about half of the more than three million Ukrainians who fled the country trees bordering Ukraine Poland Hungary Slovakia Romania and Moldova body century to seemingly unending flow of refugees and the authorities of facing the additional monumental task of providing long term mental cat to traumatize Ukrainian children over the past twenty days an average of fifty five children have been fleeing every minute a friend unlikely to change as Russian forces continue their advance new arrivals are expected to overwhelm underfunded and poorly managed schools in tiny Moldova but also incredibly affluent Poland I'm Charles Taylor that's my
UN News
"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"This is Conor Lennon from UN news. There was already a learning gap before the pandemic with disadvantaged and marginalized children lagging far behind in terms of educational achievement. Since the onset of COVID-19, which has seen millions of children affected by school closures, it's become a golf. And by some estimates, around 70% of ten year olds can't read a simple piece of text. Richard Jenkins, the director of education at the UN children's agency UNICEF spoke to me ahead of the international day of education, marked on the 24th of January, and began by explaining the severity of the COVID effect on children's at schooling. It's important to remind ourselves that we still very much have a crisis in terms of the scale of the school closures and partial school closures. More than 635 million students remain affected by either full or partial school closures at the moment. So in no means are we out of the out of this in terms of the conversation around the importance of reopening schools of prioritizing and reopening, ensuring schools are the first to reopen during the reopening process. And the last to close, if indeed, some countries are in that closing process. So still at scale, still a big challenge. Still, I'm very much a dialog taking place all over the world around the importance of keeping schools open. So the impact has been in a few ways. Let me start with the learning because, of course, coming from the education sector, that's where we often immediately gravitate to, but in no means is it only a learning issue, the impact of school closures. But specifically on learning, we are very concerned as more and more data is emerging on the learning loss and the disproportionate impact school closures have had on marginalized children in terms of learning losses. Globally, the big estimate is that before the pandemic, 53% of ten year olds living in low and middle income countries were not sufficiently effectively reading, did not meet the minimum standards of foundational literacy and numeracy. That is estimated to be going up to 70%. So that's 70% of ten year olds being unable to read or understand a simple text. That's a just one little snapshot into the levels of learning loss. Of course, it depends on how long schools have been each individual child school has been closed. It also depends on the level of access to remote learning that they have..
TED Talks Daily
"unicef" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Three languages. I speak fluently in Arabic, English, and Turkish. And recently I started to learn French. Learning languages makes me feel powerful as I challenge my mind. It also makes me feel I can communicate with other people, which is important to a connected and equitable world. And also it's one of the many ways that can bring us all together as human. Because of my academy achievement, a few years ago, UNICEF Sudan wrote an article about me, in which I shared my biggest dream to one day to go to Colombia university and instead of medicine. And now today I'm one of UNICEF Sudan is advocate. Championing the rights of other child to access the quality education. I told you I have big dreams. Since we're coming, I just advocate with students of Sudan. I've been emphasizing the importance of peace and education. And I see how using the come look up to me. And how my parents and siblings, whose prescribed with the opportunities I have given, which makes me feel proud. And I love seeing everyone in the camp once also to fight for education. Recently, I have the opportunity to fly to the capital of Sudan her tomb. It was the first time to me to be on airplanes. And first time also to live. I even had the opportunity to meet the prime minister of Sudan, along with other use representing every state in Sudan. Which was truly overwhelming for me. I am from Utah ID become where the prime minister of Sudan, but it also an eye opener. I connected with other use who came to the capital of hope and a mind filled with determination, wanting to share their stories from their parts in their country. I realized that despite of our different culture of the ground, we were all one. We have the same plight and needs, but we all wanted one thing. Peace and fair treatment and access to services and opportunities. And this must be true with every child around the globe. The visit also reminded me that there is so much unfairness in this world so I was lying in my hotter room with SC on an electricity. I sort of how I struggled in the camp to study on a sleep because of lack of electricity. When I study I rely on flashlights, I can't help but ask the question why? I realize that and in so many ways so lucky. Because I have opportunities to succeed in life and I have the great privilege to continue to increase awareness about education for all children like me and across the world. Imagine if they were given the skills power and knowledge. Imagine the difference that we make in their life and in our world. They have big dreams to education just like electricity. Shouldn't just be for some. It's a necessity on the right, just like hopes, dreams, and opportunity. Shining away for world for each of us and in turn, allowing us to make the world better for us. I'm not sure if we can. But I am so much more than that. I say it proudly with the power of education. I can make the world a better place. We all can. Thank you. PRX..
UN News
"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"I read from the latest UNICEF report that 14 million people in Afghanistan are facing acute food insecurity. And an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of 5 are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of this year. Are these the up to date numbers? Was the situation like on the ground for children in Afghanistan? UNICEF has been in Afghanistan for over 70 years. So we have presence across the entire country north south east west and central. And all our offices in those regions are open. We have never left, not even on August 15. So all our offices remained open and our warehouses are full at the moment that are 22.8 million people. Facing food insecurity across the country. And that means that they can not access affordable or nutritious food around 23 million. And that is half the country. Okay? The country is 38 million people. So it's in fact it's over half the country. Now, of that 23 million figure, 60% are children. So that's around 14 million 1 4 million children are food insecure. And so what does that look like for an impoverished family? It looks like parents who are decreasing the portion size of meals. It looks like parents who are not eating three meals a day, somewhere only eating one meal a day. It looks like parents who wake up in the morning, and they don't know where their next meal is coming from. It's that level of food insecurity. Now this has been exacerbated by several factors. This is what when we talk about the perfect storm in Afghanistan and the looming crisis. What we mean is that against a backdrop of drought against a backdrop of a poor harvest because of the drought. Against a backdrop of rising food prices. Then the families who are struggling at the moment are going to struggle more. And they're going to struggle more because winter is now here. And we're only at the start of winter. We have four more months of this and an Afghan winter is.
AP News Radio
UNICEF: Battered by pandemic, kids need mental health help
"The U. N.'s child protection agency is urging governments to pour more money and resources into preserving the mental well being of children and adolescents the U. N. children's fund says it's state of the world children's study is this most comprehensive look so far this century after the mental health of children and adolescents globally the coronavirus crises forcing school closures that upended the lives of children and adolescents has thrust the issue of the mental well being to the fore UNICEF's executive director Henrietta full says too little investment is being made by governments to address these critical needs I'm Charles de Ledesma
The Vance Crowe Podcast
"unicef" Discussed on The Vance Crowe Podcast
"I mean you're seeing it already kind of exists. But you really have to know what you're doing you at least have to have a sense for where to go and who to trust. When does this become something that a motivated person. But the that isn't well-connected could could start using you know. I think probably a motivated person can already use some of this stuff right now. access a lot of these apps and a lot of these tools right. Now if you're if you're nouri enough so then you know you've got this motivated person. They can do it. Where do they even go if they wanted to be able to start separating from the more traditional banking credit system. Yeah that's a. That's a. I i am not somebody that is that has gone down that path at all. I have friends that do it. And so i can't give like a nuts and bolts walk through other than setup a coin mesa count You know kinda. Start playing around with that Checkout unicef wa. that's a that's a decentralized exchange or if you just google u. n. i. b. s. a. r. s. w. ap unicef That's like a distributor coin base. And so if you will Defy probably. This is something that That i should write about is like suitable. More nuts and bolts intro. But i personally i'm not a i'm still very much. Time is traditional financial system. Like i'm kind of waiting on some of these things develop. I'm not an early adopter with the stuff really with with most of anything on. I'm i know too much about tech to to be an early adopter of especially something critical like like for my finances. So so i am not. I'm not the guy to walk by three. Like how kind of unplug from the banking system and get loans on unicef walk acting so speaking early adopters. You've written a lot about Artificial intelligence machine learning and one of the big subjects that you were covering that i thought was like touch..
AP News Radio
UN: Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan Expected to Worsen
"UNICEF says eight concerns are growing in Afghanistan the U. N. agency for children expects the humanitarian situation in the country to worsen due to a severe drought the onset of winter and the corona virus pandemic the agency says ten million children in Afghanistan already survive off humanitarian assistance and around a million are expected to suffer from life threatening malnutrition this year it says some four point two million children including two point two million girls are out of school I'm Charles de Ledesma
ABC Perspective
Many Survivors of Haiti Earthquake Expect No Help From Officials
"Last weekend's devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Compounding the misery, Tropical Storm Grace, the aftermath of President Juvenal Maurice's assassination. And, of course, the coronavirus pandemic. ABC is Matt Gutman is in Haiti with more from what we've seen. AIDS seems to have been slow in coming to the southwest of Haiti, that devastated area UNICEF now doing assessments, saying that there are now 500,000 Children without adequate shelter without food without clean water. When you drive by these areas, you see house after house, especially in these mountain villages completely collapsed. And when we spoke to the locals, we noticed that There's nothing there. There was no aid. There were no Tark's. There's no water food being brought to them. There's no insurance whatsoever, and they said they didn't expect to get any not from the government. They hope that maybe NGOs would help. But as far as we have seen help, had not gotten to some of those most remote villages that perhaps needed it most and hospitals right now are slammed. There are patients still coming in. With injuries from the quake. We were at a hospital, a nine year old boy came in with a bilateral pelvic fracture Incredibly painful well over 100. Patients have been medevacked here to Puerto Prince for further treatment. But this is going to last a long time. Matt Gutman, ABC News
UN News
The United Nations Intends to Remain in Afghanistan
"The delivery of lifesaving aid and medical supplies to millions of afghans must not be cut the u. n. health agency has said citing a threefold rise in the number of trauma cases according to the world health organization. Seventy the health facilities at support across afghanistan treated nearly fourteen thousand conflict related cases. Last month that compares with only four thousand and fifty seven cases senior a year ago sustained access to humanitarian assistance including essential. Health services and medical. Supplies is a critical lifeline. For millions of afghans must not be interrupted said dr amid madari the w eight show regional director for the eastern mediterranean the development comes as u n agencies repeated their commitment to stay and deliver assistance to those in need in afghanistan after the taliban secured the capital on sunday at a press conference in geneva. Un children's fund unicef said that eighteen million people in the country need aid assistance and one in three children is expected to be severely malnourished. This year his the agency's chief of filled operations and emergency mustapha. Ben massoud speaking from kabul on tuesday derek impacts office Inviting direct impact is civilian memorised. Children have seen injured in such a way that it's difficult to describe young children as young as ten month.
Arizona's Morning News
Death Toll From Haiti Earthquake Passes 2000
"The devastating earthquake in Haiti is now risen past 2000. UNICEF says more than 37,000 homes have been destroyed. Flooding and mudslides in tropical storm grace are hampering rescue and recovery efforts. You're
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Haiti Braces for Tropical Storm After Earthquake
"It appears haitians are not done with the bad news. Either grace has been downgraded from tropical storm to a depression which is great. But it's still on a path that will put it directly over the country later today that follows a few days after tropical storm. Fred visited and after a magnitude seven point. Two earthquake struck saturday killing nearly thirteen hundred people. That number will continue to grow today. They say as they clean up. Hospitals are struggling to keep up with the fifty seven hundred people who are hurt. Some centers have run out of space with others. Treating patients underneath trees and on the side of the road. More than thirteen thousand homes have been destroyed as we always say unicef dot org red cross and united way are all places. You can donate if you're trying to
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"unicef" Discussed on What Bitcoin Did
"Centralized kobe's the decks is already do that. She his interface to those taxes. Now today that interfaces centralized we're on aws neck against shutdown tomorrow There are ways of decentralizing many elements about web out. And i believe ultimately we will be able to decentralize all elements out. There are already websites out there that run on these like aps s which become pretty close to immutable and again. None of this stuff is perfect. It's not a panacea. You can see where the trend is going. What am i. what am i missing anything. I'm talking one thing. I'm wondering about so you. You mentioned Ships discouraged he doesn't charge any fees so obviously the token holders will be expecting shapeshifts to make a profit not as a business but as the dow ride in. I assume so like how. How is that going to work out. So how hard token holders going to see. Yeah so think about it this so. In a normal centralized organization you have shares and the governance of the organization falls shareholders to elect a board who lexin executive team and the economic value that accrues to the project ultimately belongs to the shareholders in a token world. It's the token does that token is what governs the projects. That's how you know where if a decision to get made ultimately it will fall and settle down to took an older and it's the system generates revenues it can go to those token holders and it's up to the token holders win and how they want to create night so this is the case currently with unicef unicef has no fees they go to tobin holders and yet the unicef token is like a multi billion dollar market cap. Why are people willing to hold. Those tokens similar to how someone who owns a share of a company. That doesn't pay. Diffidence knows that in the future. That company may be able to eight evidence. And certainly if they hold enough of the tokens they can make it pay. Dividends in in a shares in a token world platform like unicef slob one year from now ten years from now can attasi that goes to the token older. That's up to them. They can choose. When and how to deploy level it should be up. Very similar to how shareholders do that in a centralized organization right right so maybe doesn't make business sense when that case doesn't make sense for the product to to charge now but it would at some point and and i guess the point is that the token holders can't decide. What's the right time to do that. Yeah and there's all it's also not as simple as like you must charge a fee or not the the stuff in defiance getting very very interesting to the point.
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"unicef" Discussed on Storytelling with Puck
"Opinion based on said inflammation in the knowledge and trusting me to be a reasonable person which i consider myself to be then i could also put my needs and even my rights and freedoms decides for somebody else. I do that on a daily basis. Because i live with a foster child for her wasn't a daily basis i think that very much depends on all of the elements involved in the equation. So in this particular instance for example for the reality that we're living in now the reason why i would not put my right side is because i have not had free access to information much of it has been censored amongst the experts. Objectively speaking experts. Don't well i was about to say. I don't understand why but i believe i do and i think that this is why i have this feeds into this concern that i have this general concern that i have towards the way that the world is headed and my general opinion towards and view of establishment powers the ruling elite those who define the parameters of our lives economically speaking things. A a terribly clear. The unicef published a report this year talking about how the rich have become five hundred. Forty billion dollars richer of this pasta while the bottom percentage of society will take up to ten years to recover from his economic there. Are things a play power. A play that are being ignored. That will have terrible consequences. I believe which is why. I will put my right side in this in this on this occasion and i think as possible solution because you say that. What does the solution and i think. That's a great question because we often talk about problems with up until by issues of eighth people have solutions. And i'm very much these days trying to be solution based. I'm trying to live my life by solutions. I don't want problems again the way so my solution has been an. I have come to realize that. I think that this could also be a possible solution for a lot of people.
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UN: 100,000 Children in Ethiopia's Tigray Face Deadly Hunger
"The U. N.'s a children's agency says more than one hundred thousand children in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region could face a serious threats in the coming year UNICEF warns the region's children risk the most extreme life threatening form of malnutrition over the coming months as humanitarian aid remains blocked from the region of some six million people the estimate is a ten fold increase over the usual caseload in Tigray officials from the U. N. and U. S. the visiting Ethiopia over the coming days to press the government to lift what Washington cools the siege of Tigray some two hundred food laden trucks a stock well the only remaining road into the region I'm Charles de Ledesma
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"unicef" Discussed on Because You Need to Know
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"unicef" Discussed on Because You Need to Know
"Consume it and understand it so that is a critical piece. It's a critical piece. That is exciting because it is entrepreneurial right you get the figure out and be part of that. So is there anybody in leadership that has you say you have had discussions. So we're has that fallen. What what's the future so it interesting thing. You know what we're doing. A noise management is a function that does not have prominence is a function that we have only between thirty and thirty five stop in organizational kicked in two thousand and most of these people like myself were headquarters. Regional offices with few in country offices. has decentralized structure with offices all over the world in like km at south doesn't have prominence. However you use the keyword enterpreneurial in this is what we have donald past years saying. Okay we have. We don't have the prominence you know we're not have not been a priority as poss- years however being under the radar sometimes allows you to to be able to do things without having to many permissions right and do good stop experiment and try and pilot and i had to sit at the. Sometimes you need to internal spiritual need to seize potenza. Bosa need to support a leadership matters. So i don't need necessarily like the top top management to be supportive but you know if you have a supervisor got a manager you can have a director right above you. Who are supporting. That's enough and if you have a network and a community to work with Thing about when came networks because yes we have three stop but guess what we have a network off seven hundred plus stops they might have different titles where they will engage with say. Kiem is not that everyone's job because when you say that we could be nose job at which we are saying is that everyone has a role to play with it. And i don't care how much how many stops him have. Of course if we had more staff. I'll be happier but even if you don't have more cam positions as long as it's a function embedded in people's work and everyone has a role to play in a meaningful way than yes. That's fine is not about imposing. Am i always say people kill km cam but if you keep doing it. I'm so happy. Not about recognizing keenum is about adding value of km. Then call it whatever you want. That's my personal opinion would pass yours. It is amazing the amount of people in the world that would just as soon lose the terminology of knowledge management. It it has some baggage with it. And it has misconceptions with it and it. It has a almost a little bit of what i wanna say like a passing paradigm or passing business item. That people like oh. Yeah while we did that a couple of years ago. We're not gonna do that again. Kind of like a transitory way of doing business. But don't you think that's changed your where of knowledge management iso standard for knowledge management. I think this question has come up a not a lot but it has come up when you ever set to discuss in organization Is people outside my ask. Well how much this definition of standards by us those important indian the you know what the people in your organization don't really care so much in honestly even when i thought at the beginning like we just developed strategy. I thought the beginning. Let's just like you know used leverage this. This was supposed. I the initial was supposed to help organizations help. Practitioners say hey. This is a serious thing. We have standards. But you know what in the end. Ama- very practical pragmatic person people in in a specific ation maybe different different contexts. But he might experience so far in. I'm not talking about unis about osada exclusive have daycare only about the added value. Give in the context. you're at they. Don't care about standards or or whatever research can bring in Maybe worse than different cultures but in this case it does not add value in fact what we did in the end. What really helps us is have our own. Definition management heavier owned the finish understanding of knowledge management. That works for us. And that's what medicine dan because it's all about adding values all about improving. Got our effectiveness about making sure that whatever we do actually have access to to noisy experience that we need that we keep learning and improving and adapting. I mean and that's about it and if we can find out what the finishing and help us do that so that we on same page the same things we don't have different are standing than that. The job is done young. So tell me what's the definition village management. My friend say very simple. We define knowledge management as the the set of practices that we put in place to capture organized a share and use knowledge to achieve results and for children and advance state rights that set very simple forest apps. You know the different steps annoyed psycho. Which was four to simplify simplified and is has to be a bug results vastly rights children. That's it so. How does this get embedded or aligned to the strategic view of the organization. Right now what we're doing. We have a media strategy and this is about setting. I call it kind of like. Filling in the gaps is on died called. We call this strategy filling in the gaps that we come to have globalization right. So what am i doing work next. Two years we started is creating a bunch of public goods it's tools templates guidance platforms a couple of ones like a cam hobbits platform in a learning program. Salukis talked about the stuff capacity that will enable us to develop this capacity overall needed to along with an extra final that because now yes because new strategic plan so the then after two years as we kinda like copper basic came because this is our first global cam strategy than the next strategy will be aligned to define where we say okay. Let's use all public was we had developed that we have piloted because we do political demi contre office party clock the next extra to the goals of their gains -ation and that's where we can align the next strategy so this has been intentional. Let's focus on building the basics and then later week on a line but you in the past theoretically already be aligning because when he uses tools that guy that sent and templates skills development of course in office. You have to do it the line. Your office goes in visuals. So that's important. I'm interested to ask is uh in the global footprint that you affect as an organization. Is there a specific continental or citizenry base cultural base regional base that is more adaptable to knowledge management versus others. Have you seen a difference in the application of knowledge management practices and.
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"unicef" Discussed on Because You Need to Know
"I support our internal stop so they actually can have the tools the guidance the good practices that can adopt their own context the us but even if i work with them i it's important to be aware of this right so for example. The fact that you know is not just about technical as much as about the expertise that what the research says with volition About a few like a new c. D. illitch developments early on but he's also a connection which resemble more and more appreciative fag. That national stuff. That people who are from a country working contracts you have noticed may be technical expert with a phd degree. You know might have so is really being aware that a even if i don t work with communities directly right now so how do you get the culture to share. How does unicef plant the seeds of propagating more sharing across and within the organization. I find that unicef say. This isn't just my personal experience but we don't have much of a culture of for example. If you wanna talk about the opposite which is hoarding. I think is a pretty. If i may use the word. Shield culture right Which is amazing because nsf Hesitant doers. Being more in a field is kind of activity called for the un environment. I mean we also have bureaucracies at trump but That's what i was wondering who you know. You're you're kind of saying words that could describe an anti bureaucratic or Structure were. You've got administrators running channels and divisions and containers of people in process. And we have that okay. We had that. But i think is always depends which where you come from compared to other or simple agents organization. The republican led bit that. There's i don't think so much about structures because we have in my opinion still very heavy structures. But i think is more about a culture. The people i haven't seen it so much Sharing is really more. We have many organizations like a problem all over flow of information or too much production of documents especially the explicit knowledge codified knowledge and so really and people being like Busy in developing at union commented the Project centric cetera. israeli monday. you should find time to to access the most in need in using it. But i think younger is not the barrier berry. Renar context is more like selecting and using so it almost sounds like your your organization may be really ripe for developing a business intelligence cell that can start the analysis and extraction of all this content. Is that does that fall. Into the knowledge management realm now this is a dispatch yet. This is a a fighting pasta discussions about all this because unicef. I've been there only two years so i kinda like for little extra point of view but isn't organization that has invested law to from what i'm gathering in the past years so-called evidence punctuation omega making. We have a research capacity making sure we have data collection. Now this a You know make sure we have a strong integration function. Blizzard the so-called program monitoring functions all ice cold evidence generation functions. But then. okay. Once collect joined the evidence highly transplant into the programs. Like how. close the loop in how to make sure that their use run less forget is not only about evidence those about original edge like we said earlier. What donna had this not necessarily in the reporter in research on data that we collect so. Let's not forget. I see this my personal opinion but is especially having the notes All evidence functions in connected with the of knowledge like Implicit knowledge and is what enables oldest evidence that knowledge to be actually implemented a program so we had the connection between worth the programs. Projects end the sources of evidence knowledge. So this is how i see a campbell. You're right we have right because the law in the past induce evidence generation. That's an exciting place to be right. Because that that sets you up for a great world of expansion and added value we go back to the value of what you're doing and what's being done for the organization if you've already got a culture that is already okay with the cross pollination of thought ideas conversation but it's still structure that's pretty set in stone so to speak this element of what knowledge management could help provide as a return on investment of all this research and data because to me. The data's in the collection of data is the easiest thing to do. That's like storage in taxonomy and things like that is like a foundational piece. But if that's all you've done is built the foundation. Okay now what you know that that only serves a certain amount of customers so to speak but in an organization. I used to work in military intelligence. There was a thing. That was called obi obi is overcome by events. You get such a flood of reports and data and information and all these things that eventually you just become overwhelmed and stuff gets on the floor. I mean stuff just lands on the floor because you just don't have time to.
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"unicef" Discussed on Because You Need to Know
"Welcome to because you need to know. I am edwin k. Moore's president and founder of pioneer knowledge services. This series is your digital resource of valuable conversations with nonprofit and knowledge management enthusiasts from across industries and from around the globe..
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"unicef" Discussed on UN News
"And you know when you have this kind of shock. One of the biggest risk is separation in in an apartment. It's really heartbreaking. Be with children in therapy them interact with them and realize that from the time of the attack. They got separated with their parents. They enter in the boat in which you want to feel people can in from the same location and hearing from those people were hosting them that they keep on a daily base calling the parents data getting ams and you could lead and you could see from the children's ice the fear and anxiety about the whereabouts of their parents. Do we know how many children are in the situation we are talking about. I think the exact number is one thousand nine hundred seventy children while unaccompanied or separated. Close two thousand team which is for me. A big beden in which full. I'm so require a lot of work in terms of psychological support in terms of psychosocial support up in terms of you know mental health also to be taken as part of the challenge. That people are facing. I could see until malnutrition becoming a serious issues. Our t. i'm doing active activists funding. Because i'm so most of the time when the cal is mother's mother stay on trying to use. Traditional protocol antipasto fusion get tickled before heading visited today. A health center supported by unicef. Where a so a a child severely limited new my news today and now being going back to life because of the treatment and the whole day bliss and after six days i'm seeing a so this movement of population people would have been living with hiv. Because ids hiding in this region but because of displacement and because of movement they dropped out of the three months putting them in increasing the risk that they are facing of course we are still in the context of the benjamin for of covid. Nineteen you know respecting the precautionary measures like social distancing wedding moskva. Washing him those also remain big challenges in own throughout this area because of the promiscuity people's congestion one point which is important to highlight is water and sanitation. i have seen for the island of ibo. A paneth. lake huron shock an outbreak of cholera. Which to me is nothing else than the. Did you see that. The people in the facing when it comes to access to safe water when i'm to access and sanitation i have seen a soul. My e need of children who need to access to education because the school was already very friday but since they are very accommodating to displace children this further increase. You see most score at abetting in two three shifts to be able to combine the accommodation of the displaced children with the need of observing at a minimum level. The cautionary measures against covid nineteen spray. Just to say that almost every angle you take which is related to child survival child protection child will be childhood. Development is a area with massive. Need and i think we need to talk about those at the international level for people to realize the kind of difficult cessation of the population of this part of the world. Great i would like to ask you about that so looking at the future. What are the priorities for yourself. What is the agency gonna be focused on for me. A thing of the greatest priority is access because most of the time when you have the security issues in talent you have the incidentally or loan said adamant operating here making it difficult for us to assess you have some time the government security forces of so being present and that limits the kind of access we have to sutton population and while you need. I think getting increased access is something which is extremely important. One of the message. I will take back of to maputo. When we engage with government at a high level. It will be how they can facilitate the visa the working operation facilities for the non governmental organization to operation. I think the government is working when he was the united mission. But as we knew you weren't is sitting updates footprint like our suffolk is now in bar has been growing in the. We are not only dense of number. But even in terms of ceos not in terms of the stock deploy here but we as we as uni said. We need to collaborate with did to a with enjo- resilient society is to organizations to increase our age. Because alone we will come up a notch detector and platform about. we need. I think that would be a sense of never done so. I feel so that there is a need for the ink. The national community to increase its financial support to his operation. We started the year with humanitarian. I'm appealing for timber of over fifty million dollars. So far it is funded for by sixty percents in context with day by day you are seeing the number of. Id peaking busy today in this region. We are talking about seven hundred thousand. Ibp's half of whom are children in that many india where we don't have access in probably also population walk in dire situation or will have that could be greater than even the population we have access to..
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Global COVID Vaccine Inequality 'Becoming More Grotesque'
"World. Health organization has warned that glaring covid nineteen vaccine inequality has created a two track pandemic with western countries protected and poor nations still exposed. The warning came as the leading charity. Unicef said that millions of coronavirus vaccine could be wasted if wealthy nations send large amounts of left overdoses to the developing world. In one go. Well let's get the latest on this now with monocle. Twenty four health and science correspondent dr. chris smith chris is also a consultant virologist at cambridge university. Good afternoon to you chris. Good to have you on the program as always and let's start with that issue about. I guess western countries being undone by their own largest this problem with flooding these needy markets in one go. There just isn't infrastructure to cope with that. It's a tricky one isn't it. We've never been down this path before. We've never tried to do what we're attempting to do. Which is vaccinating entire planet. An entire planet with eight billion people on it. We think there's probably in the region of seven billion people who are not immune because one billion have either had the infection recovered and become immune or they've had vaccine so far
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Siebatcheu's Late Header Sends USMNT to Nations League Final
"We'll be welcoming in. Hercules gomez to talk about the us as game against on doors that we witnessed last night. Thank you so much for joining us. Her let's just take a look back at the starting eleven some of the stats as well. In this game. We finished one nil to the. Usa had their stars by from europe. It was a strong side that was put out that not without. its struggles. though. What do you make of that performance. Erc underwhelming very underwhelming k. Steve if we look at the starting lineup a few questions unicef didn't play it was the bachelor jet jackson. You'll tyler adams. Still not back from fitness concerns. That back still bothering and we're going to see if they can get him back for. What is the final. But that's a big big player missing right there. His ability to cover ground his ability to protect that centreback. Line or though centreback perry. And i should say when the us press is so high up the field against an opponent they leave him so so exposed and what is defensive transition. We sought against switzerland. It was sergio desk to was on the receiving end of the swiss attack. Time after time. Well it's a little bit of the same. Still a lot of those problems resurfacing. In what is that transition. You have strings of good play. But overall don't really put the ball in the net when they should put in the ball in the back of the net. Make the game more difficult than it has to be a lot of questions being asked of honestly smithfield and we should. We should be calm about things. I don't want to overreact because missing a player like tyler adams food for my liking. The leader of this team is going to hurt not having a christian pulisic more on the ball and more into his game that's going to hurt the transatlantic flights to come into altitude and what is denver against a very difficult concept. When i mean by that is we saw the tricks. We saw the opponent and how they were going to play. We saw the physicality of the game is still very young. Team is getting used to
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Congolese Residents Flee Goma Amid Warning of Second Volcanic Eruption
"Hundreds of thousands of people but likely need assistance in eastern democratic republic of congo or. Drc has people in goma continue to flee the threat of further eruptions by mount iago you and humanitarian said on friday. The first eruption on the twenty second of may killed over thirty people and the gohmert volcanological observatory has warned that the risk of a new explosion israel the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs or archer said it reported strong tremors on thursday one of the measuring four point nine on the richter scale along with large traffic jams. Gomer with some four hundred thousand people potentially on the move. The un children's fund unicef warned that two hundred and eighty thousand youngsters may need help. The un agency said that many of those to go in the first wave headed to nearby sake which is an area prone to cholera outbreaks and where at least nineteen suspected. Cases have been recorded in. The last. two weeks needs already high in this part of the country. North kivu where more than two million people are internally displaced and three and ten severely food insecure
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Congolese Residents Flee Goma Amid Warning of Second Volcanic Eruption
"Hundreds of thousands of people would likely need assistance in eastern democratic republic of the congo or drc as people in goma continue to flee the threat of further eruptions by mount nyiragongo un humanitarian said the first eruption on the twenty second of may killed over thirty people and the gohmert volcanological observatory has warned that the risk of a new rupture is israel. The un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs or archer said on friday. It reported strong tremors on thursday one of them measuring four point nine on the richter scale along with large traffic jams out of goma with some four hundred thousand people potentially on the move you in children's fund unicef one third. Two hundred eighty youngsters may need help. The agency said that many of those who left game in the first wave headed to nearby sake which is an area produce cholera outbreaks where at least nineteen suspected cases have been recorded in. The last two weeks needs already high in this part of the country. North kivu where more than two million are already internally displaced and three and ten are severely food insecure