UNA PLATAFORMA PARA UNIR LAS LUCHAS POR TODOS LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS

• Stunting

  
  Stunting prevalence in children under 5 Read more
  19%
• Political Participation

  
  Rating on consensus building and civil society participation Read more
  7
• To what extent are rural communities shrinking

  
  % of population living in rural areas Read more

  1960: 77%

  2015: 56%
• Child marriage

  
  Rates of child marriage Read more

  Married by 15: 9

  Married by 18: 32

• Pesticide use by volume and by expenditure

  Read more

  Fungicides and Bactericides: 68.93

  Herbicides: 169.57

  Insecticides: 441.54

Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.

• Legal Recognition of the Right to Food and Nutrition

  
  Is Right to Food recognized in the legal system Read more

  The Constitution of the Republic of Senegal implicitly guarantees the right to adequate food through broader human rights.

  Implicit protection of the right to adequate food

  Article 8 : « La République du Sénégal garantit à tous les citoyens les libertés individuelles fondamentales, les droits économiques et sociaux ainsi que les droits collectifs. Ces libertés et droits sont notamment :
  § le droit au travail,
  § le droit à la santé, »

  Article 17.3 : « L'Etat garantit aux familles en général et à celles vivant en milieu rural en particulier l'accès aux services de santé et au bien être. Il garantit également aux femmes en général et à celles vivant en milieu rural en particulier, le droit à l'allègement de leurs conditions de vie. »

  Directive principles of state policy

  Article 7.3 : « Le peuple sénégalais reconnaît l'existence des droits de l'homme inviolables et inaliénables comme base de toute communauté humaine, de la paix et de la justice dans le monde. »

  National status of international obligations

  Article 98 : « Les traités ou accords régulièrement ratifiés ou approuvés ont, dès leur publication, une autorité supérieure à celle des lois, sous réserve, pour chaque accord ou traité, de son application par l'autre partie. »
• National Food Security Policy

  
  Is there a national food security policy with implementation/action? Read more

  National Strategy for Economic and Social Development (NSESD) 2013-2017 [1] [2]

  2.3 Strategic Objectives

  2.3.1.5.5. Food security

  i. Strengthen the food crises prevention and management system

  ii. Improve access to healthy and nutritious food

  2.3.2.3. Improved healthcare and nutritional status

  i. Improve the supply and quality of health services

  ii. Enhance performances in the area of disease prevention and control

  iii. Improve maternal and child health

  iv. Improve the nutritional status of mothers and children

  v. Improve health system governance

  2.3.2.4. Increased access to safe drinking water and sanitation

  i. Increased access to safe drinking water for populations in urban and rural areas

  ii. Develop sanitation services in urban and rural areas

  iii. Support the integrated and sustained management of water resources

  iv. Foster good governance in the safe-drinking water and sanitation sub-sector

  Targets

  34. Percentage of children 0 ‐ 5 years old benefiting from nutrition service. 2012: 55%, 2013: 60%, 2014: 65%, 2015: 70%, 2016: 75%, 2017: 80%.

  Strategies

  2.3.1.5.5. Food security

  i. strengthen the food crises prevention and management system, through enhanced food security, strengthening the early warning system and the agricultural market information system, including the use of the Improved Harmonized Framework.

  ii. improve access to healthy and nutritious food by promoting food diversity and strengthening resilience among the vulnerable segments.

  2.3.2.3. Improved healthcare and nutritional status

  i. Improve the supply and quality of health services by developing a community approach to promoting healthcare, increasing evacuation means, constructing and rehabilitating health facilities, strengthening garrison medical centres, recruiting skilled health workers equitably stationed throughout the country and promoting generic drugs.

  ii. Enhance performances in the area of disease prevention and control through prevention of HIV transmission and other communicable diseases, increased access to anti‐retroviral drugs for people living with HIV, strengthening capacities of staff to diagnose and properly monitor TB cases and prevention and management of chronic illnesses.

  iii. Improve maternal and child health by promoting deliveries in accredited health facilities and particularly skilled attendance at delivery, improving access to healthcare for women in rural areas, providing neonatal care, promoting family planning and improving immunization coverage for children.

  iv. Improve the nutritional status of mothers and children by promoting dietary diversity, increasing the proportion of children that have access to nutrition programmes and promoting efforts to meet the nutritional needs of vulnerable groups (children under 5 years, pregnant women and nursing mothers).

  v. Improve health system governance by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of public spending on healthcare and of the monitoring/evaluation system of sectoral policies as well as strengthening the health surveillance system.

   

  [1] https://extranet.who.int/nutrition/gina/en/node/23006

  [2] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13194.pdf