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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 6 December, 2021 | Topics: Agriculture, Ambassador, Key Officials, News | Tags: Climate Change, Covid-19, FAO Council
The United States is joining international efforts to ensure COVID-19 vaccines and treatments reach countries around the world.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 28 January, 2021 | Topics: News | Tags: Covid-19, Vaccination
The United States continues to help African nations fight COVID-19 while also helping their economies recover from the pandemic.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 10 December, 2020 | Topics: Africa, News, USAID | Tags: Africa, Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 15 October, 2020 | Topics: News, USAID | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
By USUN Rome Mission | 6 August, 2020 | Topics: Alert, News, Notification | Tags: Alert, 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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 2 July, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, development, Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 30 June, 2020 | Topics: Ambassador, Key Officials, News | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, WFP, World Food Program
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
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By USUN Rome Mission | 8 June, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 4 June, 2020 | Topics: Africa, Agriculture, Key Officials, News, Press Releases, USAID | Tags: Africa, Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
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).
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By USUN Rome Mission | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: News, USAID | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Health
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
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By USUN Rome Mission | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: News, USAID | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Health, USAID
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, News, Press Releases | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 8 May, 2020 | Topics: News, USAID | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 4 May, 2020 | Topics: News, USAID | Tags: Africa, Covid-19, Middle East, Refugees. humanitarian assistance
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 23 April, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: 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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 17 April, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, News | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 16 April, 2020 | Topics: Africa, News, USAID | Tags: Africa, Covid-19, USAID
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 8 April, 2020 | Topics: News, U.S. Secretary of State, USAID | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 3 April, 2020 | Topics: Agriculture, News | Tags: Covid-19, FAO, Food Security
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
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By USUN Rome Mission | 31 March, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, News | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, World Food Program
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 26 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Covid-19, Humanitarian Assistance, Secretary of State, USAID
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.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 13 March, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Department of State
Mission Italy, Embassy to the Holy See, and USUN Rome Change in Operations due to COVID-19 The U.S. Missions to Italy and to the United Nations Agencies in Rome and the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See will limit their operations as of March 11, 2020, in accordance with the Government of Italy’s March ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 12 March, 2020 | Topics: embassy, Messages for U.S. Citizens, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Italy
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 ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 12 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19
