Www.fanrpan.org How Can We Deliver Impact on Food Security and Human Health Through Partnerships? Presentation by Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN CEO.

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How Can We Deliver Impact on Food Security and Human

Health Through Partnerships?

Presentation by Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN CEO Africa College, University of Leeds

22 June 2011

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Outline

• The Challenges We Face– Food & Nutrition Insecurity– Human Health and Ecosystems– Policy Environment

• Global Targets / Initiatives • Partnerships for Impact

• Take Home Messages

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Insecurity: Food-Nutrition Nexus

• 195 million children are stunted- 30% of the world’s under 5s

• Under nutrition causes an estimated 3.5 million maternal and child deaths annually

• In some African countries the proportion of children stunted is as high as 50%

• 265 million African suffer from chronic hunger

• 40% of child bearing women are anemicRef: A Montpellier Panel Briefing: Scaling-Up Nutrution (SUN)

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Household ExpenditureHousehold Expenditure

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Human Capital

www.fanrpan.org Ref: A Montpellier Panel Briefing: Scaling-Up Nutrution (SUN)

US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton: “these deaths are intolerable because they are preventable”

His Excellency Ngwazi Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika , President of the Republic of Malawi: Jan 20101“in 5 years no African child should die of hunger and malnutrition”

Ban ki-Moon, September 2010: -UN-MDG Conference“Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. We must hold each

other accountable.

Political Leadership

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Levers for Impact: Put Food First

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Global Targets/Initiatives

• MDGs - Millennium Development Goals 1 to 8

• CAADP -Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program

• SUN - Scaling Up Nutrition

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Global Development Targets

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From Hunger and Malnutrition to Food Security

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Causes of Food Insecurity

Source: Evan Schmidt (jtt[://schmidtomics.blogs.com/

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Low economic growth Poor education and health care

low levels of assets/savings low incomes /productivity

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SUN-What Needs to be Done• Increased productivity of crops high in micronutrients

• Increased storage capacity and waste reduction

• Education and supportive policies for growing a greater diversity of crops

• An increased capacity to process raw crops including fortification of stable crops

• Direct nutrition-specific interventions focusing on pregnant women and children under the age of two

• Multi-sectoral approaches: Supporting agricultural development, Improving social protection, Ensuring access to healthcare

Ref: A Montpellier Panel Briefing: Scaling-Up Nutrution (SUN)

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Food Security: What Needs To Be Done

• Investing in People – Support actions in the area of human and social development

• specifically via training and education• Knowledge sharing platforms

• Infrastructure– Improving access to basic infrastructure essential for economic growth and

development• Basic Infrastructure such as housing, roads, electrical reticulation and

communications, essential pillars for economic growth.

• Services– Enhancing agricultural productivity, competitiveness, and rural growth

– Improving access to assets and sustainable natural resource use

– Strengthening institutions for the poor and promoting diversified rural livelihood

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Partnerships -Road Maps for Impact

CAADP

1.Generate the evidence base for CAADP Compact & investments plans

2.Create multi-stakeholder policy dialogue platforms

3.Develop stakeholder databases

4.Share experiences and best practices

5.Global advocacy

SUN 1.Task Teams established

2.Build National Capacity

3.Advocacy and Communications

4.Social Mobilisation

5.Engagement of donors

6.Involvement of Private sector

7.Monitoring and evaluation

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The Building Blocks for Impact

Create an environment in which cooperation can thrive by• Building effective regional and global partnerships• Developing mutual accountability mechanisms • Using communication and advocacy to promote change

Build the evidence base• Collect relevant data in timely fashion, improve tools and

methods, and invest in monitoring and evaluation. • Rope in African Universities to be custodians of knowledge and

partners in development• Equip Communities with Evidence

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Enhancing Impact

Sustainable Development through Agriculture

•Farmer-centered: focused on giving farmers, especially smallholder farmers, the tools and information they need.

•Broad-based: inclusive of all groups throughout the agricultural supply chain, from farmers and suppliers to policymakers and scientists.

•Knowledge-driven: comprehensive in its approach to finding sustainable systemic solutions for agricultural production balancing environmental, economic, and social needs.

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Partnerships for delivering Impact in Food Security and Health

• Policy formulation process– Greater information sharing between health and agriculture

sectors– Public sector to collaborate with non state actors in policy

development– Alignment of local evidence and needs to the global agenda and

calendar• More investment from public and private sectors

– More public investment is required in agricultural research, inputs subsidies, marketing infrastructure, extension services.

– Conducive environment for private sector investment in the areas of research, food technology, bio fortification and plant breeding

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Partnerships for delivering Impact in Food Security and Health

• Multi- and trans- disciplinary Research– Public Health researchers, nutritionists, agriculturalists and food technologists

forming functional research teams;

– Plant breeder and nutritionists should venture into research on improving productivity and nutritional value of traditional crops and orphan crops

• Value Chains– Involvement of all value chain actors (farmers, input suppliers, plant

breeders, food technologists, food processors and nutritionists, retailers and consumers)

– Creating and promoting markets and improving value chains for orphan and traditional crops to improve access

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Partnerships for delivering Impact in Food Security and Health

• Inclusive approach in programme design and implementation

– Plant breeders, technologists and nutritionists should involve Farmers, consumers in their innovations

– Regular feedback in the system

• Social protection– Effective identification of vulnerable households – Effective and holistic programme targeting (Package to include: Enhancing food

production, better health , nutrition and sanitation) – Targeted cash transfers and relief distribution

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Partnerships for delivering Impact in Food Security and Health

• Improving access to water and sanitation– There can be no impact without access to water– Improving access to water for drinking , cooking and for agricultural production -

irrigation– Experts should collaborate to ensure adequate supply of water for the multiple uses

• Integrating health, nutrition and food security Information for households

– Extension and health workers should collaborate when delivering their messages to households to integrate health nutrition and food production messages

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What Do Good Partnerships Share?

• Common purpose• Risks• Responsibilities• Resources (human and financial)• Competencies• Benefits and gains

Partnerships should be transformative!

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Obstacles to Successful Partnerships

1. Trust (suspicion about private sector/government)

2. Information gap (reliable up to date databases; research on local systems not documented)

3. Financial resource gap

4. Human capacity gap

5. Perceived benefits gap (pull factor is weak)

6. Networking platforms

7. Non Conducive Policy environment

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Take Home MessageINNOVATIVE ≠ NEW

INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS FOR IMPACT

1.Links local development needs to regional & global agenda

2. Multi disciplinary & cross sectoral

3. Sustainability (economic, social & environmental)

4. Bring value add-Empowerment

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FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Awards

Rewarding African Success

20082009

H. E. Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika

President – Republic of

Malawi

H.E. L. DIEGO, Prime Minister –

MozambiqueOn behalf of President Emilio

Guebuza

2010

Hon. Abraham Ivambo, Minister

of Education – NamibiaOn behalf of President Hifikepunye Pohamba

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