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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
producers
Local producers
Community Food
Depots
Community Food
Depots
Community Food
Depots
Community Food
Depots Community Food
Depots
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