Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

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Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

Digest No. 1187

2 September 2015

Discussion 119

 

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Nutrition-sensitive social protection programmes around the world – What’s being done and to what effect?

until 13 September 2015

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Dear members,

Below you will find the first contributions to the discussion on
Nutrition-sensitive social protection programmes around the world – What’s being done and to what effect?”.

The number and complexity of social protection programmes has grown over the past twenty years and so too has interest in making them work better for nutrition.

We are looking for experiences of social protection programmes which improve nutrition and views on how to strengthen the link between these programmes and nutrition outcomes. Your feedback will also contribute to the upcoming Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs convened in Moscow on 10-11 September.

The topic introduction and the questions proposed for the debate below and on the website. Please send your comments to
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We look forward to further exchange!

Your FSN Forum team

 

 

Lucy Basset, co-facilitator of the discussion

Dear all,

Many thanks to our early contributors. I am just back from Guatemala, and was looking first-hand into how to deliver nutrition services to the most vulnerable. Some of what is discussed resonates already.

Anna Antwi

Inherent to many discussions of social protection are issues around human rights, respect, and equity. Who is included? Under what criteria? In what locations? Do the programs fundamentally impact their dignity? Should we even *need* programs?

In fact, the scope of this conversation is at its core about experience, and the opportunity here through the FSN Forum and in-person in Moscow is to examine how we can collectively increase quality of life across multiple fronts. Thanks for the comments on food education and measurement of nutrition outcomes, which are examples of things we need to think about in more detail.

These conversations, and the questions included here, reflect an identified need to link nutrition and social protection programs. We often discuss ways to ‘reduce the equity gap’, and this is one of them; what we anticipated when putting this discussion together, is a way to compare, contrast, and share ways that address the roots of malnutrition better than has been done. There is an old proverb saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” While the FSN Forum may not be a channel reaching directly to those affected by the programming, it is a powerful tool to reach many outside the ‘ivory towers’ who know how to improve programming. We are convening as a global community, taking a small slice of a much larger issue, and pushing forward together.

We look forward to remaining weeks of this discussion (and hope to see more contributions from social protection experts)!

 

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iconJane Sherman, FAO, Italy

Jane highlights the role of nutrition education in increasing chances that food security interventions have a positive impact on nutrition and stresses the need for suitable indicators for measuring nutrition outcomes. She also calls for more social protection experts and practitioners to contribute to this discussion. [...]

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iconMohammad Jafar Emal, IFAD/RMLSP/MAIL, Afghanistan

Mohammad shares an article on Innovative Backyard Poultry Development; the project increased egg consumption improving the nutritional status of 5,000 vulnerable rural households in Northern Afghanistan. [...]

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iconClaudio Schuftan, PHM, Viet Nam

Claudio points out that social protection and nutrition are both human rights and that the debate on nutrition-sensitive social protection should take a different approach and look at the root causes of inequalities which lead to poverty and malnutrition. [...]

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iconDosse Sossouga, Amis des Etrangers au Togo (ADET), Togo

To Dosse's knowledge, there are no nutrition-sensitive social protection programme in Togo. [...]

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