Enhance the national food systems pathways
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 |
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 >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
Key indicator | Number of implemented national food systems pathways |
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Value | Measurement date | |
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Baseline | 0 national food systems pathways | 2021 |
Target | 11 national food systems pathways | November 2030 |
Progress
Value | Measurement date | |
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Progress report | 0 national food systems pathways | July 2024 |