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Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent: Strengthening Agro-Food Systems, Health and Social Protection Systems for the Acceleration of Human, Social and Economic Capital Development
New evidence has shown that the persistence of the burden of malnutrition has very significant consequences for physical, mental, cognitive and physiological development of African children; hence it has become a critical human rights issue that goes far beyond the already existing volatile public health impact. At the same time, evidence shows that malnutrition leads to decreased social and economic development of nations and becomes a very important political and economic development issue.
In 2019, the African Union Heads of States and Government launched the Continental Accountability Nutrition Scorecard as a tool to promote accountability for the achievement of nutrition security by the continent and improve progress monitoring being made towards reaching the global and continental nutrition targets.
Led the implementation of the Cost of Hunger in Africa Study, which has so far been implemented in twenty AU member states. The department if currently putting together a Continental Report on Cost of Hunger findings from all the completed member states and developing continental recommendations to be implemented going forward. Malabo Declarations called on all Member States to consider participation in the study, including wide dissemination of the results at country and regional levels.
At the level of the African Union, the AU Nutrition Champion in 2020 issued a high-level position paper, “Embedding Nutrition within the COVID-19 Response and Recovery” calling on all African Heads of State and Governments, to ensure the incorporation and promotion of nutrition smart interventions within COVID-19 response and recovery action plans.
Institutional capacity enhancement and enabling environment for intensified action and delivery of results and impact To facilitate dialogue with Africa’s strategic partners for demonstrable commitment and alignment of programmes toward a harmonized action and mutual accountability.The outcomes expected from activities aligned with the above objectives, will be as follows:
Well educated citizens and skills revolutions underpinned by science, technology and innovation by developing Africa’s human and social capital