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Strengthening Institutional and Human Capacities to Design, Implement and Generate Evidence for Nutrition Sensitive Programming Including Policy and Investments in Livestock Programming In Kenya - TCP/KEN/3802

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) The Government of Kenya is committed to ensuring food and nutrition security and has put policies and frameworks in place to support this commitment. Key among these are the latest Kenya National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (2017-2022), which has a strong emphasis on the food systems approach to address malnutrition. Despite this dedication, the government has identified gaps in the capacity of national staff to effectively design and implement nutrition-sensitive policies. In addition, the impact of their programmes was not well-known, as they lacked evidence on how livestock programming addressed seasonal spikes of malnutrition in children under five years of age. Policy and programme investments and implementation depend on evidence-based planning and results, highlighting another need to be addressed. Moreover, the country lacked a national information database on the food consumption of vulnerable populations, requiring additional research. To address these issues, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Development (MoALD) approached FAO for assistance.

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