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Bolivia Country Component
In Bolivia the project has been supporting the above processes mainly by strengthening the capacity of the National Council for Food and Nutrition (Consejo Nacional de Alimentacíon y Nutrición - CONAN) and its sub national councils (the Departmental Council for Food and Nutrition (Consejo Departamental de Alimentación y Nutrición – CODAN) and the Municipal Council for Food and Nutrition (Consejo Municipal de Alimentacíon y Nutrición – COMAN) to incorporate right to food in programming and by increasing partnerships with key national stakeholders in view of sensitizing them on the relevance of the right to food in their work. Particularly, the support of the project to the CT-CONAN’s effort, made an impact on the advances in the formulation of the National Food and Nutrition policy within the framework of the Law No. 144. A draft proposal of the policy was presented and approved by Parliament and includes the right to food as one of its six major strategy areas.
In 2009, Bolivia has taken a major step towards the realization of the right to food by including the latter in its Constitution. At national level, CONAN has been key to the inclusion of the right to food into the Multisectoral program Zero Malnutrition and in many other programmes and projects. In addition, the present political conjunction favours the strengthening of the right to food in the country on several fronts including awareness building, work with parliamentarians, strengthening institutions and decentralization. FAO has supported the decentralization and institutional building process of CONAN by promoting the incorporation of the right to food into sub national and municipality development plans. Additionally, in the past Norway and FMPP supported the integration of the right to food into national food security policies and plans. |
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