Food and Nutrition Council Strategy 2019 - 2021.

The Food and Nutrition Council (FNC) 2019-2021 Strategy is a strategic document which provides the roadmap for the next 3 years. It outlines how FNC will undertake its mandate through its 9 Key Result Areas namely Assessment Research, Monitoring and Evaluation; Multi-Sectoral Coordination; Nutrition; Food Standards, Compliance and Innovation; Policy Analysis and Advice; Social Protection; Knowledge Management; External and Internal Stakeholder Management and Finance and Administration. The Strategy outlines the costed 3 year workplan as well as the 2019 deliverables, which will serve as a guide to programme planning and implementation. The Strategy will also serve as a resource mobilization tool to ensure that adequate resources (financial and technical) are availed to facilitate programme implementation. The strategy outlines how FNC will, through its 9 Key Result Areas, facilitate sector work, enhance multi-sectoral collaboration, and harness multi-sectoral input towards addressing the prevailing food and nutrition challenges in the country. The Strategy aims to align food and nutrition response programmes to the current development agenda and help the Government to fulfil its developmental aspirations.
Key Result Area 1: Assessment Research, Monitoring and Evaluation. Through the Assessment, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (ARME), FNC will lead and coordinate the implementation of a structured food and nutrition security information system that provides a timely and robust analysis of the food and nutrition security situation to inform action including advocacy, resource mobilization, policy guidance and programmes. The system will comprise of broadly five components including baseline assessments, annual assessments, early warning and surveillance, rapid assessments and research. FNC will aim to ensure that wherever possible, food security and nutrition security will be interpreted together, using secondary data where possible. Key Result Area 2: Multi-Sectoral Coordination. Through the Unit, FNC will facilitate and strengthen capacities (training, evidence, documented best practice) and structures (e.g. Food and Nutrition Security Committees at provincial, district and sub-district levels) to support multi-sectoral approaches to food and nutrition security. Key Result Area 3: The FNC through the Nutrition Unit will coordinate the implementation of multisectoral nutrition sensitive programming particularly to reduce undernutrition by adopting a nutrition specific and nutrition -sensitive approach across all programming. Key Result Area 4: Food Standards, Compliance and Innovation. Strengthen FNC's role of coordinating, supporting and ensuring multi-stakeholders adherence to food standards. Key Result Area 5: Policy Analysis and Advice. FNC, through its Policy Unit, will ensure that appropriate policy guidance and advice is developed based on robust analysis and evidence and is informing broader socio - economic planning and decision-making. Key Result Area 6: Social Protection. The Social Protection Unit's primary objective is to ensure that a social protection framework is developed that facilitates a greater level of predictability, provides scope for impacting on chronic hunger and vulnerability and increases ownership by Government and accountability to its citizens. Key Result Area 7:Through the Knowledge Management unit, FNC will strengthen the development of a robust multisectoral food and nutrition knowledge management system. This system will facilitate the creation, dissemination, storage and application of knowledge at all levels. Key Result Area 8: Internal and External Stakeholders Management. The FNC, through its Stakeholder Relations Management Unit, will aim to increase awareness of food and nutrition security issues in Zimbabwe through innovative and strategic approaches of information sharing and communication on specific priority issues using multiple media. Key Result Area 9: Operational Capacity. Ensure that FNC has the appropriate systems and operational capacity.