Commitment

Access to nutrition for all Namibians

Civil Society Organisation / Namibia

Nutrition and Food Security Alliance of Namiba

Commitment made: 05 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - Nationwide
Verification status Verified Find out more

Commitment description

Advocate for the entire Namibian population, especially those previously disadvantaged and marginalised communities to be able to access safe, healthy, and nutritious food.

Namibia is currently the second most unequal society in the world (after South Africa), with the majority not being able to afford sufficiently nutritious food for themselves and their families. Social Protection is therefore key to ensure nutrition, equality and improved overall social-economic development, and Namibia already successfully implemented a pilot for an Universal and Unconditional Basic Income Grant (BIG - http://www.bignam.org), which will be one of the social protection mechanisms that NAFSAN wants to advocate for.

Commitment goals

Awareness of the effectiveness of Unconditional Basic Income Grants as a means to reduce poverty and ensure food and nutrition security has increased, and its efficency in implementing it (compard …

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Leadership and governance
  • Goal SMARTness index: High
  • Progress status: No response

Global Nutrition Targets

Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Low birthweight

Nutrition Action Classification across all goals

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

N4G themes covered by goals

  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Total funding and costs across all goals

Funders Current funding through EU-grant to support Civil Society will cover salary related costs = time and efforts going into advocacy.
Funding mechanism Donor-funding, secured until Mid'2025
Cost secured 100% costs covered for minimal but consistant advocacy, yet with more support one could even consider a bigger (and likely more effective) campaign or other related actios, such as a pilot to prove future possible success. (The amount of th N$180,000 is annual)
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (NAD) - Namibian dollar
Cost amount 180,000.0
$USD equivalent 10,941.42857 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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