Mozambique Country Component

In Mozambique, the project is working closely together with SETSAN, an inter-ministerial body that is mandated to coordinate food security and nutrition interventions and monitor the implementation of the Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN II). The strategy of the project is to advocate and promote a human rights-based approach to food security in a progressive manner. The overall focus is on strengthening SETSAN’s capacity to function as inter-disciplinary coordination body on right to food issues and thus enhancing policy coherence.
The project is therefore supporting SETSAN sensitizing stakeholders through advocacy on, and integrating the right to food in plans, programmes and events. Particularly, the project has been supporting SETSAN during the organization of the IX Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).

For the last few years, the Government of Mozambique has made progress with the inclusion of the right to adequate food in its legislation. In this regards, the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty for 2006-09 (PARPA II) explicitly calls for the development of a right to food law and the Food and Nutrition Security Strategy II (ESAN II), launched in 2008, is guided by the right to food. As a result of the strong collaboration between Mozambique and the FAO, important ground work has been done regarding capacity strengthening, advocacy and the design of a participatory process for the development of the right to food law during the course of previous projects.

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