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Boosting Food Security and Nutrition in Ghana and Malawi - GCP/RAF/480/GER

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme provides the framework in Africa within which sector reviews, expenditure reviews and investment planning related to agriculture and, increasingly, food security and nutrition, are undertaken. In order to ensure efficiency of resource allocation, assistance is needed to strengthen capacities for effective mobilization and use of resources for food security and nutrition, in particular in the development, implementation and monitoring of National Agricultural Investment Plans. In this context, the project was designed to address a number of key issues in Ghana and Malawi. These included insufficient human and institutional capacity to track and analyse resource flows to food security and nutrition, inadequate capacity to negotiate and facilitate public-private partnerships to attract domestic private investment, inadequate stakeholder engagement of diverse non-state actors, the private sector and civil society in policy, as well as political and accountability processes and mechanisms for food security and nutrition.

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