Double the number of graduates trained to combat malnutrition using a multi-sectoral approach by 2025
Description
Our Action Plan is to promote the MSc Programme in Food Security Policy and Management to a wider audience of potential students around the world, including to those with strong work experience in this field from food-insecure countries who are keen to upgrade their knowledge, skills and academic qualifications.
We work closely with food and nutrition security organisations around the world, including those involved in our Applied Research Projects, and with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who provide an intensive workshop for a week each year. We are keen to develop stronger links with UN organisations such as FAO, WFP, IFAD and government agencies and NGOs to further promote the programme to a wider audience, but also to meet the needs of such organisations for postgraduates well-versed in best practice in, and at the cutting edge of, food and nutrition security.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
New Generation 4 Food&Nutrition Security
Description
The MSc in Food Security Policy and Management at University College Cork, is in its third year. The aim is to help build a cadre of professionals to deal with the complexity of working in the field of food and nutrition security, helping to meet the SDG2 goals of ending famine and hunger, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agri-food systems.
The MSc Team have trained students from a wide range of countries, but most of the demand is from the developing world, nearly all of whom are dependent on the small number of scholarships we have to offer. We are therefore committing to increase the number of graduates we train, and within that to ensure that we at least double the amount of students from developing countries that graduate from the country and to establish a much larger number of scholarships available to students from Least Developed Countries each year.
We have 3 commitments
1. A doubling of the number of graduates trained to combat malnutrition using a multi-sectoral approach by 2025
2. A doubling of the number of developing country students graduating from the Programme by 2025
3. The establishment of at least 5 Programme scholarships for students from Least Developed countries by 2025 and to increase that number by 2030.
In this way we hope to improve our contribution toward building the next generation of food and nutrition experts, particularly in developing and least-developed countries.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Operational
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of masters students graduating from the programme |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 10 graduates | 2022 |
| Target | 20 graduates | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Progress report | 15 graduates | November 2023 |
