CAADP Nutrition East and Central Africa
The second CAADP Nutrition Capacity Development workshop was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, from February 25 to March 1, 2013, for East and Central Africa.
Participants from 18 countries represented the sectors of agriculture, health, education, finance, private sector, and civil society. Representatives from the African Union Commission, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), CAADP and Nutrition Development Partners, Donors, UN and NGOs also attended.
The outputs of the workshop at country level include:
1. Nutrition Country Papers summarizing information and providing an analysis on the nutritional status as well as on the key policies, actions and coordination mechanisms in place of each country.
2. Country-specific roadmaps based on a guidance check list, outlining how countries will address their nutrition gaps and how they will move forward with developing, strengthening and/or implementing priority program areas that add value to the CAADP Compacts and IPs.
Countries covered during East and Central Africa Workshop : Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Congo DRC, Congo Republic, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Presentations
Presentations
DAY 1
Nutrition situation at global and regional level
The CAADP process and framework for African Food Security
Integrating nutrition and agriculture: key concepts and issues
DAY 2
Parallel session 1: Changing consumer behaviours to influence the food system
- Integrating nutrition education in agriculture extension and improving Complementary Feeding with local foods - Example from Malawi
- Linking agriculture, education and nutrition: Home Grown School Feeding
- Marketing of nutritious foods: the experience of the orange fleshed sweet potato
- Marketing as a nutrition education tool: Farm Concern International's experience on marketing indigenous foods
- Session wrap-up
Parallel session 2: Diversifying local production and supporting local livelihoods
- Tanzania experience of diversifying food production
- Livestock and Nutrition
- Fisheries and Nutrition
- Linking agriculture and social protection to reach the most vulnerable: Ethiopia's Household Asset Building Programme
- Session wrap-up
Parallel session 3: Nutrition sensitive value chains
- Integrating nutrition in value chains and smallholder farming systems - case study from Uganda
- Biofortification: the experience of Harvest Plus
- Fortification: description of fortification strategies and update on progress in the region
- Food safety: aflatoxin control
- Session wrap-up
Parallel session 4: Agriculture-Nutrition linkages in an urbanizing world
- Food and nutrition security for African cities: territorial and environmental challenges
- The Peri-urban Horticulture Project, a success story fron Congo DRC
- Street food vending in West Africa
- Prevention of malnutrition by promotion of good hygiene practices
- Orange-fleshed sweetpotato: super foods
- Session wrap-up
DAY 3
Institutional arrangements and coordination for integrating nutrition and agriculture
- Strenthening multi-sectoral coordination at country level: update and lessons learnt from SUN
- Understanding effective public-private partnerships in agriculture
- Strenthening multi-sectoral coordination for nutrition: the case of Tanzania
Developing capacities for integrating nutrition in agriculture
- Capacity to develop capacity: the role of universities
- Assessing the capacity of the agriculture to address nutrition: case study from Ghana
- Integrating nutrition into extension systems:
DAY 4
Costing and funding issues
- What is an investments plan? Cost and financing process, delineating nutrition content and nutrition cost: what to cost and how
- Nutrition integrated into agriculture investment plans: how will it be funded (eg. GAFSP)
DAY 5
Next steps
- Identification of key next steps
- Opportunities for follow-up: Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)
Challenges & Solutions
Challenges & Solutions
Intercountry working groups by thematic - Outputs
Challenge 1: Investment
Challenge 2: Integration of nutrition in country investment plans
Challenge 3: Inter-sectoral coordination
Challenge 4: Common framework
Challenge 5: Nutrition education
Challenge 6: Generate political will
Challenge 7: Capacity Development
Challenge 8: Make it happen at household level
Country Outputs
Country Outputs
Template for country roadmaps
COUNTRY | COUNTRY | |
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Burundi | ||
Cameroon | ||
Central Africa Republic | ||
Congo DRC | ||
Congo Republic | ||
Djibouti | ||
Equatorial Guinea | ||
Eritrea | N.A. | |
Ethiopia | ||
Gabon | ||
Kenya | ||
Rwanda | ||
Sao Tome | N.A. | |
Sudan | N.A. | |
South Sudan | ||
Somalia | N.A. | |
Tanzania | ||
Uganda |