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ProjectStrengthening Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Countries of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem - GCP/INT/985/GFF 2025
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The Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) is one of the most productive and biologically diverse large marine ecosystems in the world. It features a diverse range of marine and coastal habitats, including wetlands, estuaries, seagrass beds, mangroves and coral communities, which host a large number of endemic and migrant species. The seven countries of the CCLME (Cabo Verde, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco and Senegal) endorsed the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) to address the degradation of the area as a result of overfishing, habitat modification and changes in water quality in 2016. In an effort to capitalize on the momentum and partnerships built during the first phase of the CCLME project (2010-2017), the present project undertook a number of interventions, at different levels, to strengthen partnerships and foster engagement for CCLME SAP implementation, as well as to strengthen the capacity of fisheries institutions and communities for the sustainable use of transboundary fisheries resources and associated ecosystems. The project focused on strengthening regional cooperation and fostering dialogue for sustainable governance of fisheries, marine and coastal habitat and biodiversity conservation, and improved water quality in the CCLME, in the process establishing partnerships for SAP implementation with national stakeholders, regional projects and programmes, as well as international agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the donor community. -
ProjectStrengthening Capacities of Parliamentarians in Africa for an Enabling Environment for Food Security and Nutrition Including the Right to Adequate Food - TCP/RAF/3612 2020
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Despite remarkable progress in some sub-regions and countries, the overall situation of food security and nutrition (FSN) in Africa continues to lag behind global trends. Approximately one out of four persons in Sub-Saharan Africa and one out of five on the continent were estimated to be undernourished in 2015. Although the overall prevalence of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa fell by 30 percent between 1990-1992 and 2015 in absolute numbers, undernourishment increased over the same period and the progress made in tackling hunger did not translate into improved nutrition. The region is not on course to meet most World Health Assembly nutrition targets for the next decade. In 2014 the Malabo Declaration committed African leaders to reducing stunting to 10 percent in Africa by 2025, with the aim of eliminating hunger in Africa in the next decade. The Africa Regional Nutrition Strategy 2015-2025 outlines the specific role of the African Union Commission (AUC) in the elimination of hunger and malnutrition. Evidence has shown that the most effective FSN policies and frameworks are those anchored in legislation. Although the right to adequate food is explicitly expressed in seven national Constitutions in Africa, and implicitly in a further 18, there remains the need to address structural challenges and create an enabling environment for FSN. Given their legislative, budgetary and policy oversight roles, parliamentarians are critical partners in the fight to eradicate poverty and malnutrition. In May 2016, at the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Second Pan-African Parliament over 100 parliamentarians from across Africa -
Book (series)Evaluation of the “Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH): Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition” programme
Project codes: GCP/BGD/059/USA and GCP/BGD/063/EC
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No results found.The Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH) programme, funded jointly by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Union, had the overall objective to improve the enabling environment to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition in Bangladesh. The programme enhanced a national policy shift toward addressing nutrition by improving policy processes with more participation of civil society and subnational stakeholders, enriching policy and programming to address needs throughout the country. The programme supported significant enhancement of technical capacities to gather and analyze food security and nutrition evidence, innovative approaches for engaging students in nutrition learning activities, and improved the links between research and policy-making. Subnational capacity development support was initiated in the middle of the programme, identifying important opportunities for impactful multi-stakeholder collaboration on implementing national policy. The evaluation noted important effort on gender issues, but pointed out that emphasizing women’s empowerment and gender equity within all FSN programming is critical to success. To eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition throughout Bangladesh more work is especially needed in formalizing improved food-sector collaboration and multi-stakeholder governance mechanisms to continuously develop, learn, share and implement good practice at all levels.
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