Transcript Achieving MDGs

Achieving MDGs
How can the SCN working group
on Household Food Security
contribute?
Millenium Development Goals
(MDGs)
• Eight (interlinked)
• First MDG: eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger:
– reduce by half the proportion of people living
on less than a dollar a day
– reduce by half the proportion of people who
suffer from hunger
• Global plan for the achievement of MDG
goals by mid 2005 - creation of Hunger
Task Force
Hunger Task Force (interim report)
• Mobilise political action to end hunger
• Review national policies
• Implement and scale-up proven actions
International Conference on
Nutrition (ICN, 1992)
• Review macro-economic policies, legislation
and national investments
• Review sectoral policies and programmes
• Participatory and integrated action at
community level
International Alliance Against
Hunger (IAAH, 2003)
• Joint advocacy for political will to end hunger
• Strengthen hunger and poverty alleviation
initiatives at all levels
• Empower communities and build-up capacity
Towards a two-track approach
• Economic development
• Protect and improve food security, nutrition
and livelihoods of poorest and most
vulnerable households (including food aid)
People-centred planning...
• Household food security, livelihoods, nutrition
and gender cannot be dissociated:
– shift from methodology to common principles
– build from local capacity/experience (appropriation)
• Target food insecure households and
communities
– in food insecure areas
– but also in wealthy areas
• Understand coping mechanisms
... to respond to local needs
• Capacity building of local institutions
• At community level:
– Community support team
– CBOs/Social mobilisers
• National level institutions
– to facilitate/ provide support to local level
– ensure feedback into policy and decision making
• Nutrition education and training
Monitoring and evaluation
• Free standing and/or incorporated in
relevant M&E systems
• Indicators:
– anthropometric indicators
– food consumption/diversity
– local specific/participatory
Ensure synergy of existing
initiatives
• at local level:
• at global and national level:
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other MDG task forces
poverty alleviation
right to food
UNDAF
SCN Working Group on
Household Food Security
A dual role:
• assess, promote and protect household food
security for improved nutrition
• ensure that promotion of household food
security is compatible with protection and
improvement of health and care
How can SCN WG on HFS
contribute?
• Strengthen integrated planning at all levels
– intensify collaboration
– joint capacity-building & backstopping
• Promote country strategies for HFS, nutrition and
sustainable livelihoods
– review and capitalise on local experience
– address coverage/scaling up
• Focus on eco-systems/livelihood groups
– exchange of information and experience
– training and communication materials
Conclusions and
recommendations
• build upon/add value/scale up existing
initiatives to ensure people-centred approach
• working groups at country/regional levels
• incorporate HFS and nutrition into highvisibility projects and initiatives (PRSP,
emergency, HIV/AIDS)
• Combine local experience, science and policy
Recommendation 1
• at global level: incorporation of household
food security and nutrition in MDG Global
Plan
• at country level: incorporate HFS for
MDGs in relevant programmes and projects
(e.g. UNDAF, PRSP)
Recommendation 2
• In selected countries:
– review HFS/community nutrition interventions and
lessons learnt
– review macro policies to incorporate HFS, nutrition
and livelihoods considerations for the achievement
of MDGs
• discuss implications with WG
Recommendation 3
In representative eco/systems and/or for specific
livelihood groups:
• review available experience, material and
lessons learnt
• promote exchange of information/expertise
• disseminate lessons learnt and best practices &
post relevant information/material on the web
• develop and test collaboration mechanisms
within and between geographical areas