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MOZAMBIQUE : Puting the Right to Food in Practice

MOZAMBIQUE : Puting the Right to Food in Practice. Right to Food Forum Roma, 1 – 3 Out. 2008. The International and National Framework of FSN. World Food Summit, Rome, 1996; 1998: GoM approved Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN I).

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MOZAMBIQUE : Puting the Right to Food in Practice

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  1. MOZAMBIQUE: PutingtheRight to FoodinPractice Right to Food Forum Roma, 1 – 3 Out. 2008

  2. TheInternationalandNationalFrameworkofFSN • World Food Summit, Rome, 1996; • 1998: GoMapprovedFood Security and Nutrition Strategy (ESAN I). • The Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) was created, based on the FSN Working Group.

  3. ESAN I: 2005 EVALUATION • Strengths • Institutionalization of the FSN working group • Multi-sector approach • Focus on three pillars: availability, access, use & utilization • Weaknesses • No integration of the Right to Food approach; • Missing the linkages HIV/AIDS – FSN; • Focused on rural FN Insecurity; • No plan & budget; • No clear-cut indicators of M&A.

  4. ESAN I: EVALUATION • Main Recommendation • To update ESAN I: • including • the new pillars • missing issues That is: • Formulation of ESAN II.

  5. ESAN II: FORMULATION PROCESS (2006-2007) • Interviewswith Key Informants- Government and Civil Society; • Participatory consultation at national, and sub-national levels; • Workshops: national and sub-national level; and • Meetingsof SETSAN Consultative Council.

  6. ESAN II: Status • Slogan: “Food Security and Nutrition: a Right for a Hunger-free and Healthy Mozambique”. • This strategy calls for integrated approach: • activities that promote FSN; • Safety nets and social protection. • ESAN II approved in October 2007; • Advocacy of ESAN II in progress - starting with II FSN Symposium.

  7. ESAN II: Updated Pillars • Food Production and availability of food; • Access; • Use and Utilization; • Stability; • Adequacy. • Pillars look at socially, culturally and environmentally acceptability and legal mechanisms to enforce the RtF.

  8. ESAN II: Challenges • IMPLEMENTATION of the strategy; • Setting up COORDINATION mechanisms; • Enactment of the RIGHT TO FOOD LAW.

  9. II SYMPOSIUM ON FSN • Maputo, Moz, June: 18-20, 2008 • Attendance: 728 participants: • Mozambique delegates; • International delegates : Angola, Brazil, Cape-Vert, São Tomé e Príncipe, FAO HQ. • Official opening by The President of the Republic of Mozambique.

  10. II SYMPOSIUM: Objectives Objectives General: • To advocate for FSN and RtF and discuss appropriate ways to accelerate the reduction of Hunger and Chronic Malnutrition in Mozambique. Specific: • To disseminate ESAN II and its PASAN; • To advocate the legislation on RtF in Mozambique.

  11. II SYMPOSIUM: Declaration • Food security as a cross-cutting concept: The role of each sector; • Investing in a future free of hunger; • Coordination of implementation of ESAN II; • Decentralization of the FSN programmes; • The role of the legislation for realizing the right to food in Mozambique.

  12. RtF: What was done • Diagnosticstudies on policies, strategies, plans and programmes related to FNS, HIV/AIDS, Budget and Legislation; • Manual for identification of vulnerable rights holders: OVCs and PLWHA, pregnant women and other vulnerable people.

  13. ESAN II and RtF in policies/regulations • Green Revolution Strategy: to increase food supply; • Action Plan for Food Production: to face rising prices; • Health and nutrition programmes: Nutritional vigilance, education & rehabilitation centres, Supplements, Primary health care; • Employment generation; • Social transfers as social protection tools: to most vulnerable households; • Approval of the Law of Right to Adequate Food through public consultation.

  14. Thank You Obrigado

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