Food security policy
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
