Sudan delegation presents Paper on National Nutrition Strategy in Rome
The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), an inclusive inter-governmental meeting on nutrition jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in cooperation with the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), IFAD, IFPRI, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, WFP and the WTO, will be held at FAO Headquarters, in Rome on 19th – 21st November 2014. In addition to this important international event on nutrition, this report was prepared to inform the high-level ministerial conference and as a tool to propose a flexible policy framework to address today’s major nutrition challenges and identifies priorities for enhanced international cooperation on nutrition.
The ICN2 report was prepared under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation with support from United Nations agencies.
This report documents progress made towards improving nutrition since 1992 focusing on nutrition problems that remain critical as well as on the new challenges and opportunities for improving nutrition presented by changes in the global economy, in food systems, advances in science and technology and identifying policy options for improving nutrition.
The key objectives include:
1. Progress made since the 1992 ICN including country-level achievements in scaling up nutrition through direct nutrition interventions and nutrition-enhancing policies and programmes;
2. Relevant policies and institutions on agriculture, fisheries, health, trade, consumption and social protection to improve nutrition; and
3. Institutional policy coherence and coordination to improve nutrition, and mobilize resources needed to improve nutrition;
The report also addresses nutrition challenges while addressing all forms of malnutrition, focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable households and on women, infants and young children in deprived, vulnerable and emergency contexts.
ICN2 report is designed to provide information that can be used to build ongoing global political processes and initiatives to contribute to the post-2015 UN development agenda including identifying priority areas, nutrition development goals as well as the policies that are required to achieve, measure and account for them.
By Alula Berhe Kidani