Participatory nutrition

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MDGs and
Right to food
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MDGs

• United Nations Millennium Summit in September
  2000
• http//www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
• UN strategy for MDGs
• UN GA in September 2005

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UN strategy for MDGs

• The Millennium Project
• The Millennium Campaign (political support for
  Millennium Declaration - developed and developing
  countries).
• Country-level monitoring of progress towards
  achieving MDGs (UN Development Group).
• Operational country-level activities, coordinated
  across agencies through UN Development Group
  (helps countries implement policies for achieving
  MDGs)

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The millennium project

• Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to SG on MDGs
• 10 task forces to report by December 2004
• Hunger Task Force
• coordinated by Pedro Sanchez M.S. Swaminathan
• FAO member Kostas Stamoulis
• Internal FAO task force
• Patrick Webb also member
• MDG reports launched in Rome 18/1/05

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HTF report Global programme to halve hunger by
2015

• Creating political will and action
• Major policy reform and creating enabling
  conditions
• Improving nutrition and reducing vulnerability to
  shocks
• Improving agricultural productivity of
  food-insecure farmers
• Making markets work for the poor
• Restoring natural assets for the food insecure

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MDGs and Right to Food two parallel processes

• UN-supported
• Culminate at the same time
• FAO (in particular ES) involved
• 2 documents
• Hunger Task Force Report
• vs. Voluntary Guidelines
• Commonalities but also differences
• in content
• in process
• in actors (driving forces, partner institutions)

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... which must link

• to ensure synergy
• avoid confusion
• make the best use of available resources

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How?

• Same countries
• MDG country reports
• MDG priority countries Cambodia, Ethiopia,
  Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Senegal, Tanzania,
  Uganda?
• Same donors?
• Learning from each other?

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Issues for consideration

• Concerted FAO approach and use of relevant trust
  funds (e.g. FNPP, Norwegian funding, LSP)
• Provide technical assistance to relevant
  initiatives
• Document lessons learnt
• Build upon local/national experience and
  resources
• Link with other initiatives (country and global)

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Nutrition goal and process

• Nutrition, household food security, livelihoods
  and poverty inter-related
• SCN inter-sectoral and inter-institutional forum
  (UN, NGOs, donors, private sector?)
• Right to food and nutrition
• Hunger task force and nutrition