Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 192 views

    FANUS Arusha Declaration 2015

    Uploaded by

    lawrencehaddad
    The Federation of African Nutrition Societies held a conference in Arusha, Tanzania from May 25th to 29th, 2015 to address Africa's nutrition challenges. Attendees recognized that multi-sectoral approaches are needed but require leadership and coordination across government. They called on governments to commit at least 3% of sector budgets to nutrition and to prioritize investments to meet national nutritional needs. African nutritionists pledged to work with the African Union to provide expertise and support in realizing continental goals for improved nutrition in Africa.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    FANUS Arusha Declaration 2015

    Uploaded by

    lawrencehaddad
    192 views2 pages
    The Federation of African Nutrition Societies held a conference in Arusha, Tanzania from May 25th to 29th, 2015 to address Africa's nutrition challenges. Attendees recognized that multi-sectoral approaches are needed but require leadership and coordination across government. They called on governments to commit at least 3% of sector budgets to nutrition and to prioritize investments to meet national nutritional needs. African nutritionists pledged to work with the African Union to provide expertise and support in realizing continental goals for improved nutrition in Africa.

    Original Description:

    Summary of the recommendations from the FANUS 2015 Conference in Arusha, Tanzania

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The Federation of African Nutrition Societies held a conference in Arusha, Tanzania from May 25th to 29th, 2015 to address Africa's nutrition challenges. Attendees recognized that multi-sectoral approaches are needed but require leadership and coordination across government. They called on governments to commit at least 3% of sector budgets to nutrition and to prioritize investments to meet national nutritional needs. African nutritionists pledged to work with the African Union to provide expertise and support in realizing continental goals for improved nutrition in Africa.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    192 views2 pages

    FANUS Arusha Declaration 2015

    Uploaded by

    lawrencehaddad
    The Federation of African Nutrition Societies held a conference in Arusha, Tanzania from May 25th to 29th, 2015 to address Africa's nutrition challenges. Attendees recognized that multi-sectoral approaches are needed but require leadership and coordination across government. They called on governments to commit at least 3% of sector budgets to nutrition and to prioritize investments to meet national nutritional needs. African nutritionists pledged to work with the African Union to provide expertise and support in realizing continental goals for improved nutrition in Africa.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    FEDERATION OF AFRICAN NUTRITION SOCIETIES (FANUS)

    ARUSHA DECLARATION 29TH MAY 2015


    Evidence shows that Africa has made progress on a number of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
    although there still remains much work to be done to achieve sustained food and nutrition security,
    good nutrition and health for all. The persistent food and nutrition insecurity demands higher quality
    food supply from agriculture and food systems to reduce vulnerability. Overweight, obesity and their
    associated non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasing across our countries and contribute significantly to the multiple burdens of disease in relatively weak agriculture and health systems, whilst
    anaemia, stunting, wasting and micronutrient deficiencies remain unacceptably high in our Region.
    From May 25th to 29th , 2015, around 280 delegates and experts with interests in nutrition from over 26
    countries met in Arusha, Tanzania for the 3rd conference of the Federation of African Nutrition Societies
    (FANUS) under the umbrella theme of Nutrition in Africa at Crossroads. Experts from government,
    field practitioners and programme experts, academia, NGOs, research, International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) international NGOs and bilateral organizations debated and analyzed the challenges
    of improving nutrition in Africa.
    The conference recognized among others, that to address Africas nutrition challenges and meet national goals and targets would require the following:

    Empowerment: Empowerment of all actors, especially the most vulnerable population groups
    with a focus on families and employing food based approaches

    Nutrition Governance: Recognition that nutrition is a human right and yet there are challenges
    of governance for nutrition the remit for which does not sit clearly in one sector. Multi-sectorial
    approaches are essential but require proper leadership at the highest level of government to
    ensure efficiency and accountability

    Systematic Capacity Building: cross-sectoral and at all levels including higher education institutions responsible for the training of the nutrition workforce and the commitment of adequate
    resources to support nutrition actions and programmes.

    Harmonization of nutrition activities and training and the raising of standards to ensure the
    right skills and competencies required for the workforce to make a significant contribution to
    achieving and sustaining the goals for nutrition in Africa. Recognition of local contexts, priorities
    and the need for stakeholder involvement to ensure standardization and competency based
    curricula to meet employer and service needs.

    We the delegates also recognize that 2015 marks the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework for adoption by national governments. This comes at a time when the
    Malabo Declaration of the African Union spells out specific goals agreed by the Heads of States to address nutrition and food security on the continent by:

    Increasing momentum to spend at least 10% of national budgets on agriculture; aim for 6 %
    growth in the sector; and promote accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for
    shared prosperity and improved livelihoods across the continent

    Working to improve nutritional status, and in particular, targeted reduction of stunting to 10%
    and wasting to 5% from current levels by 2025.

    DECLARATION
    1. We call on the African Union Heads of States to commit at least 3% of all Sector budgets for nutrition to ensure that the cross-sectoral issues which affect nutrition can be adequately addressed.
    2. We call for clearer visibility for nutrition including specific funding commitments in the implementation of the SDGs framework.
    3. We advocate clear, streamlined and fit-for-purpose national nutrition policies and governance
    frameworks, their coordination, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and overall accountability for scaling up.
    4. We African nutritionists recognize the competition for limited financial resources and urge prioritized investments to ensure measurable impact in meeting national nutritional needs
    5. We recognize the initiatives and efforts made by African Nutrition Professional bodies and our
    international partners to help address capacity gaps in the nutrition workforce and advocate national institutional support and commitment to sustain the momentum and allow for scaling up
    such efforts
    6. We African nutritionists pledge to work collaboratively with the African Union and its relevant
    institutions such as NEPAD to provide professional expertise, leadership and support in realizing
    continental goals for nutrition
    7. FANUS (in its Capacity building efforts) supports and will work with other relevant organizations
    in efforts to improve harmonization of competency based nutrition training in institutions in
    member countries and support improvements in standards and efforts towards professional
    recognition and regulation
    8. We call for Africans to take leadership in addressing African malnutrition

    You might also like