| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Global - So far we have had students from 15 different countries across the globe enrolled in the MSc Food Security Policy … Multi-country - Least Developed Countries, and particularly those with a high prevalence of food and nutritionally insecure populations | We are particularly … |
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| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
Commitment 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.
Commitment goals
Double the number of graduates trained to combat malnutrition using a multi-sectoral approach by 2025
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Establish 10 full scholarships for the Programme for students from Least Developed countries by 2030.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Double the number of developing country students graduating from the Programme by 2025
- Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Operational
- Goal SMARTness index: High
Global Nutrition Targets
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 | Currently we have one or two students each year obtaining scholarships through the Government of Ireland such as Irish Aid (ICOS). We have not yet established a funding source for the commitment to increase the number of scholarships. |
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| Funding mechanism | We envisage establishing a range of scholarships funded from public, private and philanthropic sources. |
| Cost secured | The Irish Aid (ICOS) grants currently provide the scope for two students on the Programme, although these are not guaranteed. We envisage that half (10) of the studnets would cover their full fees each year (eg those from developed countries), so the establishment of a new annual fund to cover 5 to 10 scholarships would help to meet the target of 20 students by 2025, with the possibility of existing scholarships and other new sources (eg privately funded). So secured funding sources would currently represent about 50-60% of the total aimed for by 2025. |
| Total costs estimated | Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed |
| Currency | (EUR) - Euro |
| Cost amount | 175,000.0 |
| $USD equivalent | 224,646.9833 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021) |
