The United States is ready to work with other FAO members to address these urgent challenges. I am also confident this organization has put itself on solid footing to confront these challenges with agility, renewed emphasis on innovation, elevated attention to climate change, and energized public-private partnerships through its Strategic Framework adopted earlier this year. Read More»
Biden bolsters U.S. support for COVID-19 vaccinations abroad
The United States is joining international efforts to ensure COVID-19 vaccines and treatments reach countries around the world. Read More»
U.S. helps people and economies of Africa recover from COVID-19
The United States continues to help African nations fight COVID-19 while also helping their economies recover from the pandemic. Read More»
Global humanitarian aid has never been more important
The United States is the world’s largest single donor of humanitarian assistance. When more than 168 million people need humanitarian assistance and protection, every country has a responsibility to help. Read More»
Italy Travel Advisory – Level 4: Do not travel to Italy
UPDATE: The United States Continues to Lead the Global Response to COVID-19
The U.S. Government leads the globe with $12.5 billion allocated to benefit international COVID-19 response, including commitments for the development of vaccines and therapeutics, preparedness efforts, and foreign assistance. We are achieving real results, helping nations around the world respond to COVID-19 and thereby protecting the homeland. Read More»
Remarks by Ambassador Kip Tom at the Opening Session of the World Food Program Executive Board
Executive Director Beasley, this first year of a new decade— from the outset —is proving to be one that calls for more fortitude, perseverance and adaptation than we could have ever predicted. The United States more so than in the past looks to institutions like WFP to be a part of the holistic, constructive effort ... Read More»
U.S. relief groups protect most vulnerable from COVID-19
International relief organizations based in the United States are protecting the world’s most vulnerable people from COVID-19. These nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are collaborating with local officials to screen patients for COVID-19 in Africa and build a hospital in Bangladesh Read More»
USAID’S ONGOING DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES AND COVID-19 ASSISTANCE RESPONSE IN AFRICA
Today we are pleased to be joined by Dr. Kenneth Staley, U.S. Agency for International Development, Global Malaria Coordinator and leader of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force, and Mr. Christopher Runyan, USAID Senior Coordinator for the Bureau for Africa. Our speakers will discuss USAID’s ongoing development priorities and COVID-19 assistance response in Africa. They are ... Read More»
DAI Request for Proposals–RFP INVEST-044 Italy ESF Part 1: Catalytic Contribution, due June 3, 2020
Request for Proposal (RFP) to support the implementation of the USAID Economic Support Fund for Italy. This is one of two companion Requests For Proposals (RFP-044 and RFP-045). Read More»
DAI Request for Proposals – RFP INVEST-045 Italy ESF Part 2: Technical Assistance, due June 3, 2020
Request for Proposal (RFP) to support the implementation of the USAID Economic Support Fund for Italy. This RFP Iis one of two companion RFPs (RFP-044 and RFP-045). Offerors may apply to either or both RFPs Read More»
Transatlantic Cooperation on COVID-19
As President Trump has said, the United States is working with our friends and partners around the world to coordinate our efforts on stopping the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States values our cooperation with allies and partners in combatting the pandemic and in planning for our collective recovery. Read More»
U.S. sends coronavirus aid to Central and South America
The U.S. government is providing millions of dollars as well as training and supplies to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 to Central and South American countries, with a total of more than $73 million provided to the Western Hemisphere in response to the pandemic. Read More»
U.S. helps counter COVID-19 outbreaks in Middle East and North Africa
The United States is providing more than $110 million to help countries in the Middle East and North Africa fight COVID-19, including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, as well as the West Bank. The funding will improve disease detection and prevention, bolster lab capacity and treat patients. In addition, the United States is partnering ... Read More»
U.S. and Europe team up to battle COVID-19
The United States is helping European nations combat COVID-19, relying on long-standing partnerships to improve disease prevention and detection across the continent. Aid includes supporting laboratories and testing in more than a half-dozen countries. Read More»
Release of U.S. Government Action Plan to Support the International Response to COVID-19
Through the American people’s generosity and the U.S. government’s action, the United States continues to demonstrate global leadership in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More»
U.S. provides coronavirus aid across Africa
The U.S. government is supplying millions of dollars, training and equipment to African countries to help them combat the spread of the coronavirus. These efforts will help maximize each nation’s medical response capabilities and capacities. Read More»
Secretary of State Pompeo Announces Additional COVID-19 U.S. Foreign Assistance
Today I can confirm that we are prepared to commit an additional $225 million in health, humanitarian, and economic assistance to further boost response efforts worldwide. That’s on top of the roughly $274 million in funding we’ve already deployed to 64 countries across the globe. No country can match this level of generosity. The new ... Read More»
The United States supports the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Response to COVID-19
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is playing an important role in assessing and responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on people’s life and livelihoods around the world, the global food trade, markets, food supply chains and livestock. Read More»
The U.S. Role in International Organizations’ Response to COVID-19
The United States is by far the most generous and reliable contributor to crisis response and humanitarian action through the United Nations and dozens of international organizations. U.S. assistance, monetary and in-kind contributions, expertise and technology, are indispensable to the effort to combat COVID-19 Read More»
U.S. Foreign Assistance in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our leadership in the COVID-19 response is another example of how America—our government, our businesses and organizations, and our people—continues to be the world’s greatest humanitarians. Between existing resources, supplemental funding, the private sector, and the generous spirit of the American people, the United States is leading – and will continue to lead – the ... Read More»
Department of State Covid-19 website
The Department of State is taking decisive action to inform and safeguard U.S. citizens overseas, protect the homeland, advance the Administration’s commitment to building glo bal health security capacity for this and future outbreaks, and reduce the impact for U.S. companies and supply chains overseas. Visit the State Department’s Covid-19 website Read More»
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy – March 12, 2020
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy – March 12, 2020 Location: Italy Event: Due to reduced staffing that went into effect March 11, only emergency American Citizen Services and emergency visa services are available at the U.S. Embassy in Rome and Consulates General Milan, Naples, and Florence. The CDC advises travelers to avoid nonessential travel to Italy and State Department currently recommends U.S. citizens reconsider travel . See CDC information regarding high-risk traveler categories . On March ... Read More»
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