Commitment

Support game changers to food systems

Government / Yemen

Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery Wealth, Ministry of Water and Environment
Donor organisation, including philanthropic organisations: WHO, UNICEF, FAO/ WFP
Commitment made: 08 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - All governorates

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Commitment 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.

Global Nutrition Targets

Anaemia
Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Under-5 overweight
Low birthweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Salt/sodium intake

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 WHO/ UNICEF/ FAO/ WFP
Funding mechanism External assistance - Funding proposal However, no funding proposal has been developed for this
Cost secured No fund has been estimated and secured
Total costs estimated Not been estimated / unknown

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