The Government, with the support of Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has launched a strategic review of food and nutrition security. It aims to identify the challenges to be met at the national level and to help define the priority axes with a view to achieving the zero hunger goal (SDG2) by 2030.
Achieving zero hunger requires integrated approaches that respond to the multiple, interconnected causes of hunger and malnutrition. To respond to the Zero Hunger Challenge, the Government of Lesotho commissioned the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR). The purpose of the ZHSR was to support national efforts to accelerate actions towards eliminating food insecurity and malnutrition.
The National Zero Hunger Strategic Review aims to facilitate implementation and progress towards SDG 2 and SDG 17 to enable Madagascar to work towards eliminating food insecurity and malnutrition and improve the quality of stakeholder engagement with the Government, align it with national development objectives and facilitate strategic consultations. The Strategic Review (i) identifies gaps in interventions, resources and institutional capacity at the national level, and (ii) proposes priority areas for action where all stakeholders could achievement of SDG2.
The Government of Zambia commissioned the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) to lay out in a comprehensive manner the status, trends, responses and gaps in the five pillars of the Zero Hunger Challenge. The review recommends actions needed to achieve SDG 2 by 2030. It provides a situational analysis of food and nutrition security in Zambia to contextualise the challenges and opportunities of achieving Zero Hunger by 2030.
This Review is inclusive, based on a consultative process and provides a comprehensive analysis of the problems faced by Tajikistan in ensuring food security and nutrition, and in achieving SDG 2 by 2030.
The review identifies a basic level for a common understanding of the problems and gaps in food security and nutrition, thereby facilitating the coordination of priority actions needed to eradicate hunger by 2030. The conclusions and recommendations of the Strategic Review will help to form the future directions and national priorities identified in the development programmes and strategies of Tajikistan, and will contribute to the evaluation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
Considering the multifactorial and multidisciplinary aspect of the fight against hunger and malnutrition, the Ivorian Government has launched in 2016 a new National Nutrition Policy and a National Multisectoral Plan for Nutrition, in addition to the existing sectorial strategies.
In this context, under the leadership of His Excellency Daniel Kablan DUNCAN, Vice-President of the Republic, the Government launched the Zero Hunger Strategic Review process, aiming to strengthen efforts and accelerate progress towards the elimination of hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
The objectives of the Strategic Review are to: 1) take stock of the state of food and nutritional security in the country with the key problems that emerge from it; 2) take stock of the deficits in the policies and programmes implemented to respond to these problems; and 3) propose strategic lines of action not only to address these weaknesses, but also to put the DRC on the path to achieving the targets chosen by the fixed horizon.
Eswatini working with key sectors undertook the Zero Hunger Strategic Review in an effort to inform implementation of SDGs 1 and 2. The Review seeks to analyse the obtaining food and nutrition situation and its linkages to poverty in the country and identify opportunities to strengthen current and future programmes and strategies aimed towards the attainment of zero hunger and ending poverty by 2030.
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2019 Annual Report describes the third year of activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
This think piece was produced by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in collaboration with Oxford Policy Management and sets out a vision of how social protection can support households facing climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2018 Annual Report describes the second year of activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
RBA Canada Resilience Initiative - 2017 Annual Report describes the initial planning and activities to promote food security and strengthen resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Sierra Leone is pleased to share a copy of the Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR) Report ¡ª officially launched on 16 October 2019 on World Food Day.
This Strategic Review is a product of the inclusive review process, a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced and the country¡¯s institutional capacity to address them. The review also identifies priority actions to achieve SDG 2 ¡°Zero Hunger.¡± These priorities inform the plans of national stakeholders and partners in Sierra Leone.
The Lead Convenor oversaw the whole process together with a fully-fledged technical research team. From 2017 to 2019, the review involved a wide range of national stakeholders, government ministries, departments and agencies, civil society members, private sector partners, donors, and international organizations.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ commends the leadership of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Sierra Leone for all their efforts.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ also expresses its sincere thanks to sister agencies, namely FAO and UNICEF, for also playing a big role in the process.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Sierra Leone has officially released its Food Security System (FSMS) Assessment Report. The complete findings was finalized in August 2019 and validated by representatives of the Food Security Working Group (FSWG) in September 2019.
The Assessment Report shows great concern in the food security situation in Sierra Leone and demonstrates significant increase in food insecurity amounting to now 53 percent nation-wide as opposed to 44 percent in 2018. At district level, food insecurity was highest in Bonthe, Kailahun, Tonkolili and Koinadugu.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ will continue to lead discussions on ground, together with the FSWG, to review the implications along with making immediate decisions on how food security partners can work together to address the needs.
The Mid-Year Operational Snapshot highlights Â鶹ÊÓƵ Aviation operations¡¯ achievements in support of humanitarian response across the world during the first half of 2019.
