HOUSEHOLD FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

RIGHT TO FOOD LAUNCH 27 JULY 2015

Presentation layout

• Purpose • Background • Food security strategies • Household food & Nutrition implementation

progress • Way forward

Background • Cabinet approved a National Policy on Food and Nutrition

Security, together with the Household Food and Nutrition Security Strategy

• The Strategy proposes immediate and medium-term interventions that can be implemented by government building on some of the current responses

• The policy and strategy are aligned to the priorities set out in the NDP Vision 2030 and Social Protection outcome 13

• Food & nutrition security can be achieved through a delivery of interventions which promote sustained availability, accessibility and affordability of safe and nutritious food at national and household level.

The Household Food & Nutrition Security Strategy The main focus of the strategy is on household-level food security and nutrition, and propose immediate steps to: • Strengthen the School Nutrition Programme (SNP)

and extend it by means of introducing before-school breakfast, weekend and school holidays meals.

• Develop & test mechanisms to support Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres to offer meals to the children in their care.

• Establish a robust network of Food Distribution Centres (including but not limited to food kitchens), backed by a substantially larger financial commitment from the fiscus.

Key Strategies & responsible government Dep’ts

Key Strategies and responsible government departments: • Meeting immediate nutritional needs of the most

vulnerable and food insecure – led by DSD, DoBE & DOH • Food fortification- led by DoH; • Improving access and affordability of food - led by DAFF,

DoRD&LR, DTI and DoEC • Support for Small Scale Producers, including Family

Production led by DAFF, • Early warning and forecasting on food and nutrition

insecurity Led by led by DAFF,

Household Food and Nutrition Programme • DSD has introduced the Household Food and Nutrition Security Programme

(HFNSP), which include the establishment of a network of Food Distribution

Centres (FDCs). These are operated by NPOs as Implementing Agents that

operate Food Distribution Centres (FDCs) and distribute food to Community

Nutrition Development Centres (CNDCs).

• The HFNSP is therefore a response to the most vulnerable members of the

society that seeks to provide direct food to the affected in order to raise their

productive capacity.

• HFNP is a government programme to empower its citizens

Programme Objectives • Address poor and vulnerable households access to food • Establish food distribution infrastructure to strengthen community

feeding programmes • Address households nutrition insecurity, • Reach the food insecure including those in rural areas. • Improve food production capacity of households , SMMEs and

corporative • Develop market channels through bulk government procurement of food; • Fostering partnerships with relevant stakeholders within the food supply

chain;

The HF&NSP model

Provincial Food Distribution Centre Local

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Local producers

Community Food

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Community Food

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CNDCs

Cooked meals

Households

Food parcels

Food Agencies:

Feeding organisations, e.g. ECD, DIC, OAH , HBC etc

Bulk procurement of food Donated food

IMPLICATIONS • Job creation/ people

employed • Business creation • Beneficiaries • Health benefits • Poverty alleviation

Community Nutrition Development Centre (CNDC) • Community facility: Hall/Church/

CBO • Cooked Meals • 250 or more Individuals/ CNDC • 3 Cooks on EPWP • 1 CNDC Coordinator • Transport Food, Fresh Produce &

Fruits

PARTNERSHIPS: •NPOS •IDT – CWP & EPWP •Private sector •Nutrition education

Opportunities: • Training & skills development • Community development programmes

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Way forward • A need for a robust economic transformation model to

support Household Food & Nutrition Security Programme

• Strengthen the programme coordination & streamlining

institutional arrangements at all levels Establish provincial forum for Food Security

THANK YOU