Transcript Diapositiva 1 - Organization of American States

Strengthening Food and Nutritional
Security Policies
El Salvador, C. A.
Cali, Colombia - July 8 & 9, 2010
Inter- American Committee for Integral Development -CIDI
II Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities
on Social Development
OAS
General Data
 5.7 million persons
(Population and Housing Census)
 47% male 53% female
 20 000 sq km
Coeficiente de GINI: 0.48
IDH
2
El Salvador is a country with
average (medium) level of
human development
GDP Per capita
US$ PPP
Trends for HDI and GDP per capita (in US $ PPP)
GDP per capita
HDI
High % of chronic malnutrition
Prevalence of Malnutrition < 5 years
(Fesal 2008)
-Slow
reduction
malnutrition
of
-Still a high percentage of
chronic
malnutrition
(stunted growth) 14.5% at
national level.
-Only 1% acute malnutrition,
indicating that the main
problem is not a complete
lack of food (famine) but
rather low quality of diet
and poor living conditions.
Weight/Age
Height/Age
Weight/Height
Strategic Sectoral Plan
• PRIORITY ACTION
Family agriculture and supply system for food
security
To support greater food production and productivity of
rural families in poverty, as well as the infrastructure for
food storage, creating early warning mechanisms for
ensuring
the
permanent
availability
of
food.
Strengthening family agriculture and increasing
production of basic grains, through technical assistance
and the facilitation of access to inputs by producers in
conditions of vulnerability.
Food Security Program
• Goal:
Contribute to elevating the availability of and access to basic foods
by the population of El Salvador, to improve their quality of life.
• Pupose:
Increase the availability and variety of foods, and promote greater
accessibility to food.
• Result
 An increase in the permanent supply of foods, in quantity and quality
 An improvement in access to sustainable consumption of basic
foods.
 Establishment of a contingency program for food security and
storage in case of emergency.
KEY TOPICS
•
Articulation of long-term and short-term actions
•
Guaranteeing food supply
•
Strengthening family agriculture/farming
•
Development of local markets and strategic alliances
•
Development of indigenous territories
•
Support to urban and peri-urban agriculture
•
Participation of the private sector in the fight against poverty
•
Promotion of food safety
•
Reduction of the impacts of chronic malnutrition
•
Definition of programs and projects for implementing the policy
•
Design and application of systems for monitoring and evaluating the impact
of the programs and projects
•
Territorial focus and local management of Food and Nutritional Security
Policy
October
16, 2009
CREATION OF THE NATIONAL
COMMITTEE FOR FOOD AND
NUTRITIONAL SECURITY
-CONASAN-
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE
FOR FOOD AND
NUTRITIONAL
SECURITY

Defines national policy and
strategy for Food and Nutritional
Security

Coordination and articulation of
national plans and inter-sectoral
programs.

Mission: responds to the food
and nutrition problems of El
Salvador.
 Presided
by the Secretariat for Social
Inclusion.
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE
FOR FOOD AND
NUTRITIONAL
SECURITY
 Members:
Technical Secretariat of the
Presidency, Ministry of Agriculture and
Livestock, Ministry of Public Health
and Social Assistance.
 Technical
bureau extended to other
institutions such as the Ministry of
Education, Consumer Protection,
among others.
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE
FOR FOOD
AND
NUTRITIONAL
SECURITY
• Tackles the root causes of food and
nutritional insecurity of the
population.
• Consider all areas of activity of
economic and social development.
• Develops policies, programs and
national plans with a comprehensive
approach.
• Includes inter-sectoral and crossdisciplinary participation with multiple
actors.
NATIONAL
COMMITTEE
FOR FOOD
AND
NUTRITIONAL
SECURITY
• Recognizes access to food as a
basic right.
• The State is obligated to monitor the
compliance of this right.
• Undertakes actions to guarantee
adequate food for the population.
• Overcome institutional and national
obstacles which affect the fulfillment
of this right.
Special Food Security
Program,–PESA El Salvador
• Overall Objective
To reduce the proportion of rural homes experiencing food
and nutritional insecurity by implementing agricultural and
human development initiatives to guarantee the availability,
stability, access, consumption of food, based on strategic
local development alliances in four municipalities in the East
of El Salvador.
• Specific Objective
Improved food and nutritional security of the most vulnerable
groups in four municipalities.
• Components:
 Capacity building in food production and income generation
 Training in Food Security, Nutrition and Home
 Communication for Development
 Institutional Strengthening and Impact
THANK YOU.
Patricia Alfaro Mancía
representing:
Hugo Alexander Flores
Vice Minister of Agriculture and
Livestock of El Salvador, C. A.
[email protected]
[email protected]