23.JC Wandemberg, Sustainable Systems International, Ecuador
Dear Christine,
Thank you for the opportunity to share my views. To best maximise the potential of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition there must be a simultaneous focus on eradicating corruption. This is the most critical activity that needs to be included in the Work Programme. Without this simultaneous fight against corruption all efforts will be significantly diminished to say the least.
Thank you,
JC Wandemberg Ph.D.
24.Renuka Jayatissa, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
It is important to invest more on research and targeted interventions to achieve global targets. Especially multi country studies to explore different approaches to find out feasibility of implementation of targeted interventions in different settings. Uses of locally available food items to improve practices and to improve food based approaches rather than supplementation should be explored more and more which will help to develop Best practice models in different regions and to sustain the systems.
25.Gode Doukoua, Federation Nationale des Associations des Consommateurs de Côte d’Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire
Original contribution in French
La cote d'ivoire est un pays agricole par excellence malheureusement l'accent est plutot mis sur les cultures de rente, pour contribuer de efficace a l'eradication de la faim et l'elimination de toutes formes de malnutrition dans la decennie a venir elle doit :
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Mettre un accent particulier sur la production de la culture vivriere,
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Reduire progressivement l'importation des produits cerealiers notamment du riiz, dont l'importation fait sortir d'enormes devises et investir davantage dans le vivrier,
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Regler en amont l'acces aux terres cultivables,
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Mettre en place des mesures d'incitation a la production du vivrier,
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Reduire drastiquement la depense de l'exterieur en ce qui concerne les produits de grande consommation,
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Mettre en place une veritable politique de transformtion et de conservation de nos produits agricoles,
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Lutter efficacement contre la problematique endemique de la vie chere par des mecanismes innovants.
English translation
Ivory Coast is, above all, an agricultural country, where unfortunately the production focuses mainly on cash crops; thus in order to contribute effectively to the eradication of hunger and the removal of all forms of malnutrition in the next decade, it is necessary to:
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Introduce a especial emphasis on the production of food crops,
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Gradually reduce the imports of cereal products, in particular rice, the import of which costs an enormous amount of foreign exchange, and to invest more on food crop production,
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Regulate upstream (from customers to suppliers) the access to arable land,
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Set up incentives for the production of food crops,
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Drastically reduce external expenditure on mass-consumption products,
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Implement an genuine policy aiming at the transformation and conservation of our agricultural products,
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Effectively fight against the endemic problem of the high cost of living by means of innovative mechanisms.
26. Peterson Kato Kikomeko, Kyambogo University, Uganda
Thank you Christine Campeau and the UNSCN for starting this discussion.
I expect to witness increased domestic and donor funding for nutrition, and with these, increased accountability. I also expect to see more concerted engagement by State and Non-State actors. Increased funding and accountability will facilitate effective delivery of nutrition services be nutrition specific or nutrition sensitive. Increased participation will spread the reach on nutrition services; even in the hard to reach areas that are usually underserved.
Aspirations that are not backed up by adequate funding and competent human resources to roll out necessary activities are often unattainable. For me, I think it will be critical to mobilise funds at global and national level. Much needs to be done in Uganda but a move by the government to increase funding for health and nutrition and also employ key persons specifically for nutrition will go a long way in augmenting other services. Funding for nutrition can be improved through public private partnerships, engagement of different stakeholders, minising duplication of activities, improved transparency and accountability by all actors.
All actors State and Non-State have roles to play. Probably delineating roles by the different actors and then undertaking advocacy aimed at holding each actor to account may improve the quality of commitments.
27. Dhanya Praveen, Environment Protection Training and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
First of all thank United Nations for the Decade of Action on Nutrition and for for the opportunity to express our views. In India, poverty eradication is our major challenge. The Article 47 of the Constitution of India states that, “the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health. We have National Mission on Sustainable agriculture (NMSA) under National Action plan on climate change, and National Food Security Mission (NFSM) as the key missions to ensure food security. However our nutrition program also needs to be carried out in a mission/campaign mode as the “Global Nutrition Report 2016” once again demonstrates India’s slow overall progress in addressing chronic malnutrition. Despite having National Pulses Development Project (NPDP) and National Food Security Mission for pulses (NFSM-P) Even though we Have Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) since 1975 and national coverage of the mid-day meal scheme since 1995, the efficacy of this programmes needs to be frequently revisited through time tested monitoring and evaluation techniques through multi-sectoral coordination. As in today’s world food consumptions pattern has changed, hence Policy level interventions such as providing tax benefits to restaurant that cater focused attention on nutritional stuffs will help in larger reachability and meeting objectives of UN-DAN.
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