Commitment

Enhance the national food systems pathways

Government / Yemen

December 2021 — November 2030

Description

build and strengthen the capacity of all stakeholders to enhance the food systems, through:

1. Developing and strengthening national and subnational coordination mechanisms for food systems platforms and stakeholder;

2. Support value chain addition to local agricultural products such as Horticulture, Diary, Cereals, Fisheries etc

3. Enhance and adopt nutrition-sensitive interventions to prevent child malnutrition especially to reduce stunting levels;

4. Build capacities of national codex programmes/structures and enhance their participation globally to codex alimentarius meeting and through addressing the weaknesses or gaps; develop national food standards based on codex texts as appropriate; a have well-functioning Codex Contact Point. Develop and operationalize food safety multisectoral action plan in the health sector

5. A joint multi-sector needs analysis before, during and after a humanitarian response and to include wider measures of nutrition need and progress. These measures may include and not limited to:

- commitments to measuring minimum dietary diversity for women and girls; and

- measures to assess the impact of seasonal food availability patterns on infant and young child feeding practices and household dietary diversity.

6. Strengthen the capacity of national and sub-national staff and community to address all forms of malnutrition.

Progress will be assessed by the government every two years.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Support game changers to food systems

Description

By 2030, the government of Yemen, commits to build and strengthen the capacity of all stakeholders to enhance the food systems, through: 1. Developing and strengthening national and subnational coordination mechanisms for food systems platforms and stakeholder; 2. Support value chain addition to local agricultural products such as Horticulture, Diary, Cereals, Fisheries etc3. Enhance and adopt nutrition-sensitive interventions to prevent child malnutrition especially to reduce stunting levels; 4. Build capacities of national codex programmes/structures and enhance their participation globally to codex alimentarius meeting and through addressing the weaknesses or gaps; develop national food standards based on codex texts as appropriate; a have well-functioning Codex Contact Point. Develop and operationalize food safety multisectoral action plan in the health sector5. A joint multi-sector needs analysis before, during and after a humanitarian response and to include wider measures of nutrition need and progress. These measures may include and not limited to: - commitments to measuring minimum dietary diversity for women and girls; and - measures to assess the impact of seasonal food availability patterns on infant and young child feeding practices and household dietary diversity. 6. Strengthen the capacity of national and sub-national staff and community to address all forms of malnutrition.Progress will be assessed by the government every two years.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Superseded
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SMARTness index

Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
  • Community geography
  • Refugee status or status as an internally displaced person
  • Socioeconomic status
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
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Leadership and governance
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food

Measurement

Key indicator Number of implemented national food systems pathways
Value Measurement date
Baseline 0 national food systems pathways 2021
Target 11 national food systems pathways November 2030

Progress

Status:
Off Course
Why this status?
Given the current trajectory, the target is off course to be met by the end date.
Value Measurement date
Progress report 0 national food systems pathways July 2024

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