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	150 million more women than men were hungry in 2021 by CARE, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, agencies   July 2022   150 million more women than men were hungry in 2021 - CARE International   An analysis by humanitarian organisation CARE highlights, for the first time, a global link between gender inequality and food insecurity. Analysing data from 2021, the report shows that across 109 countries, as gender inequality goes up, food security goes down.   Christine Campeau, CARE’s Global Advocacy Director – Food Systems:   “Between 2018 and 2021, the number of hungry women versus hungry men grew 8.4 times, with a staggering 150 million more women than men hungry in 2021. And the implications of the escalation of conflict in Ukraine will make the situation even worse for women, who play a crucial role across food systems and in feeding their families and communities. Gender equality is highly connected to food and nutrition security at a local, national, and global level. To put it simply, the more gender inequality there is in a country, the hungrier and more malnourished people are.”   Of the four major global datasets on gender, including the World Bank’s Gender Data Portal, the only sex disaggregated food indicators reinforce women’s role solely for their importance in reproduction: measuring anemia in women of childbearing age and counting stunting for children. Most food security datasets are strangely silent on gender. And, despite women being responsible for 90% of preparing and buying food, they are eating last and least.   Even when both men and women are technically food insecure, women often bear bigger burdens. For example, in Somalia, while men report eating smaller meals, women report skipping meals altogether.   Aisha, who lives in a village in eastern Somalia said, “I don’t remember how old I really am, the drought has affected me mentally and physically so much that I can’t remember. Most days we don’t get anything to eat, other days we eat one meal.”   In the World Bank Gender Data Portal on food and women, the only sex disaggregated food data is related to the number of women who believe, or do not believe, that a husband is justified in beating his wife when she burns the food.   Ms Campeau said, “As women keep feeding the world, we must give them the right space in our data collection methods and analysis to make the gaps they encounter visible and work with women themselves to find solutions to those gaps. Global datasets should be publishing sex disaggregated data on food—whether the focus is on gender or on food. It is time to update our global understanding of food security and gender inequality, and, local actors, including women’s organisations in crisis-affected communities, need to get the flexible funding and support desperately needed to protect women and girls from hunger-associated gender-based-violence and protection risks.”   http://www.care.org/news-and-stories/press-releases/care-analysis-150-million-more-women-than-men-were-hungry-in-2021/ http://www.careevaluations.org/evaluation/food-security-and-gender-equality/ http://plan-international.org/publications/beyond-hunger/ http://plan-international.org/news/2023/01/26/girls-invisible-victims-food-crisis/ http://www.concern.net/news/women-and-hunger   June 2022   Findings from the Covid-19 Poverty Monitoring Initiative - Chronic Poverty Advisory Network   Since the onset of the global pandemic, the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network has worked across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia with high populations in poverty, carrying out repeat interviews with men and women who, prepandemic, were from households either experiencing chronic poverty, becoming poor, or able to sustain their escapes from poverty. We tracked their experience of the pandemic and its effects on their livelihoods and wellbeing and have published a series of country bulletins. We also looked at the evidence from household surveys.   There was a general impoverishment with considerable downward mobility into monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty, especially but not only in the urban informal economy. This was almost entirely driven by the policy responses to the pandemic. In fact what was remarkable was the uniformity of the effects, with travel restrictions, workplace, market and border closures putting widespread and similar downward pressures on livelihoods and incomes whether urban or rural, and even extending out to remote rural areas.   These effects might have emerged at different times in different places, and their severity varied, but disruptions to livelihoods were near universal. Some of the impoverishment has been quite dramatic as people who were previously resilient non-poor became poor.   What is remarkable from our data is the universal inadequacy of measures to prevent impoverishment – they are simply not there in most countries.. The limited access of the poorest people as well as vulnerable people to the often few social protection and other potentially protective measures which could mitigate the effects of the pandemic and pandemic policy responses is striking.   There’s evidence suggesting Covid-19 highlighted gaps in social protection provision but these often haven’t been filled in response.. The crisis is far from over for many people who continue to face higher costs of living due to energy and food price inflation and predatory pricing combined with lower incomes due to limited employment and casual labour opportunities. For many, the losses incurred at the height of lockdowns were never recovered, with assets sold and debts incurred to cover daily subsistence.   And children who have dropped out of school or married early due to the crisis will experience lasting effects over their lifetimes. Many households interviewed at the end of 2021 expressed concerns about the future, both directly and indirectly related to Covid-19..   http://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/chronic-poverty-report-2023-pandemic-poverty/ http://www.un.org/development/desa/socialperspectiveondevelopment/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2022/06/PMI-Policy-Brief100.pdf http://www.un.org/development/desa/socialperspectiveondevelopment/2022/06/30/chronic-poverty/
	The world’s most neglected displacement crises 2022 by Norwegian Refugee Council   June 2023   Around the world, millions of displaced people endure exceptional hardship, overlooked and cast aside by those in power and those who have the resources to bring a brighter future. This suffering is not inevitable, as the urgency and scale of the response to the war in Ukraine have demonstrated.   Each year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a report of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. The purpose is to focus on the plight of people whose suffering rarely makes international headlines, who receive little or no assistance, and who never become the centre of attention for international diplomacy efforts.   Once again, countries in Africa dominate this report of the most neglected displacement crises – indeed, many have never made it off the list.   This year also sees a return to the list of countries in Latin America, a region with growing humanitarian crises vastly overlooked by the international community. None of these countries is neglected by accident.   The powerful response to the suffering inflicted by the war in Ukraine has shown that neglect is in fact a choice. Where there is the will, political action can be impactful and swift, funding can be vast, and media coverage extensive. This is in stark contrast to the reality for millions of people forced to flee in other countries, far from media headlines and international pledging events.   Global decision makers, powerful media outlets and donors are too often swayed by geopolitical interests and the rhetoric of the day, rather than allocating resources based on need. We cannot stand by and let this selectivity become ever more entrenched.   A life is worth the same, whether the person is from Ukraine or from Burkina Faso. We need to take lessons from the Ukraine response and show the same humanity elsewhere.   2022 saw the warnings of increased disparity become a reality around the world – fuelled by a global economic downturn and the reallocation of resources due to the Ukraine response.   The gap between the funding needed and the amount provided for humanitarian assistance was larger than ever in 2022. For every dollar raised per person in need in Ukraine, just 25 cents were raised per person in need across the world’s 10 most neglected crises.   People fleeing from Ukraine were also met with open borders and strong solidarity by the public. We should aspire to this for all crises. Responsibility must be truly global – new donor countries must come on board and step up their support. Neglect is reversible.   The number of people requiring humanitarian aid continues to spiral as global inflation deepens suffering and climate change knocks resilience.   It is the most vulnerable, often those facing conflict and displacement, who bear the brunt. And as new emergencies appear, existing crises only deepen and become ever more protracted.   The vast majority of the countries featured in this report have done so since its inception seven years ago. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has not dropped below second place. Here, neglect is entrenched.   Yet it is possible to lift these contexts out of neglect. Seven out of ten countries in this year’s report represent the smallest humanitarian appeals, each around 1 per cent or less of what’s been requested for humanitarian aid globally. A little bit of political will would go a long way.   While the picture is bleak, we must not lose hope. If neglect is a choice, then the world can choose to end it.   These are the countries profiled from 2022: Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Colombia, Sudan, Venezuela, Burundi, Mali, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia   http://www.nrc.no/feature/2023/the-worlds-most-neglected-displacement-crises-in-2022/ Visit the related web page
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