"DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS"

United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, model and actress Sabrina Dhowre Elba, visited Kenya recently to draw attention to the increasing threat that climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine are having on small-scale farmers’ productivity and livelihoods in Africa and around the world. IFAD

Amid violence, decreased humanitarian aid, world must not leave Yemen behind, Emergency Relief Coordinator tells Security Council.

In Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, governments are looking at ways to halt migration and encourage young people to stay in their home countries, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In El Salvador, a rural development programme is having positive results, encouraging young people to take up careers in agriculture. IFAD

In Colombia to mark the fifth anniversary of the peace accord between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC-EP, Secretary-General António Guterres visited a small mountainside village where former combatants and civilians are living and working side-by-side. UNITED NATIONS COLOMBIA

Noon briefing by Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Security Council President says transparent elections critical for Mali, commends Niger’s ‘embrace of democracy’, in briefing on visiting mission.

Continued attacks by illegal armed groups in Central African Republic thwarting progress towards implementing peace agreement, Special Representative tells Security Council.

The Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support hold a high-level event which aims to discuss successes in the field, highlighting key examples and outlining a way forward.

Almost three years after the signing of the peace deal, South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly has been reconstituted in a formal ceremony presided over by President Salva Kiir. UNMISS

World has money, skills, vaccines to create inclusive, healthy planet for all, global leaders say, as high-level political forum ministerial segment begins.