This project funded under the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) will leverage the extensive experience and the lessons learned from 40-years of FAO’s SSTC Programme. It will complement and synergize with ongoing and planned OCOP initiatives including the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme (USD 5 million) supporting capacity-development and demonstration activities in 15 countries.
A new Innovation Policy Lab (IPL) approach is proposed to support innovative, evidence-based policy solutions and their implementation in a multistakeholder setting. This approach has already been applied by the FAO Office of Innovation to support the innovative policy making in several countries.
In line with the FAO Rural Youth Action Plan, the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI), the FAO Strategic Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals, this subprogramme hence aims to achieve the following impact: “Sustainable economic and territorial development in North Africa has been fostered through responsible agrifood businesses led by young women and men agri-entrepreneurs”.
The Hand in Hand (HIH) Initiative is an evidence-based, country-led, country-owned programme to eradicate poverty (SDG 1), end hunger and all forms of malnutrition (SDG 2) and reduce inequality (SDG 10).
This subprogramme follows the Blue Transformation Agenda, builds on previous FAO projects and operationalizes the call for action of the UN Food Systems Summit, which recognized aquatic foods and school meals as priority action areas.
This project will focus on capacity building of national and local stakeholders to make use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) to improve the land reform processes ongoing in the 3 countries.
For phase II of the subprogramme on “Scaling up livestock climate action to enhance NDC”, six countries are targeted including two new countries (Bhutan and Lao PDR). In the new countries, policy analysis will inform how sectoral policies directly or indirectly support mitigation and adaptation measures for national climate actions.
The key outcome for the subprogramme is the strengthening of Members regulatory instruments and institutional capacity to promote accountable governance for sustainable agrifood systems towards food security and nutrition through effective implementation, compliance with, and enforcement, of relevant agrifood systems legal frameworks.
The main strategy behind the subprogramme is to catalyze reductions in FLW through engendering change and improvements in the agrifood systems at global, regional, and national and sub-national level in beneficiary countries.
The two-year subprogramme with a total budget of USD 1.5 million is conceived as a Phase 2 of project FMM/GLO/155/MUL and also takes recommendations of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) 2022 into account.
Start date
01/04/2024
End date
31/12/2026
Recipient / Target Areas
Ghana, Madagascar, Namibia, Philippines, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania
