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CONTINENTAL NUTRITION ACCOUNTABILITY SCORE-CARD
Description/achievement of initiative

THE CONTINENTAL NUTRITION ACCOUNTABILITY SCORECARD, A CALL FOR BETTER ADVOCACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR NUTRITION INVESTMENTS IN AFRICA, IS A NUTRITION CENTERED INITIATIVE.

Implementation methodologies

BASED ON A THOROUGH REVIEW OF EVIDENCE, SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS HAVE BEING IDENTIFIED IN THE FIVE SECTORS THAT HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT ON NUTRITION: 1. HEALTH ( DIRECT NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, HEALTH SECTOR INTERVENTIONS AND MICRO-NUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS) 2. AGRICULTURE ( BIO-FORTIFICATION, ANIMAL REARING AND HOME GARDENING) 3 .WASH ( WATER SUPPLY QUALITY AND QUANTITY, SANITATION, HYGIENE PROMOTION AND EDUCATION) 4 .SOCIAL PROTECTION ( IMPROVING DIETS, IMPROVING HEALTH AND CARE PRACTICES,AND INCREASING / STABILIZING HOUSEHOLD INCOME) 5 .EDUCATION ( HEALTH AND NUTRITION SERVICES , ENABLING SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, AND FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION)

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE - HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III IS THE COORDINATING POINT BETWEEN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, REGIONAL, CONTINENTAL AND GLOBAL PARTNERS. THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE ESTABLISHED THE BOARDS AS FOLLOWS: BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE TRADE AND INDUSTRY BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE LEGISLATION BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE TASK FORCE BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE YOUTH BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE SENATE - FIRST LADIES BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE TRUSTEES BOARD OF NUTRITION SENSITIVE HEALTH-CARE

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

THE CONTINENTAL NUTRITION ACCOUNTABILITY SCORE-CARD IS HEADED BY THE: UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO)-NUTRITION AMBASSADOR - HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III - LESOTHO ,AFRICAN UNION-NUTRITION CHAMPION - HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III - LESOTHO CONTINENTAL NUTRITION INITIATIVES LEADER - HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III - LESOTHO NUTRITION SECURITY FOR INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- CHAMPION - HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III - LESOTHO AFRICAN LEADERS FOR NUTRITION INITIATIVES (ALN) , AFRICAN UNION, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, ALIKO DANGOTE FOUNDATION, BIG WIN PHILANTROPHY BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

Partner(s)

UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO)-NUTRITION AMBASSADOR,AFRICAN UNION-NUTRITION CHAMPION,CONTINENTAL NUTRITION INITIATIVES LEADER, NUTRITION SECURITY FOR INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- CHAMPION, AFRICAN LEADERS FOR NUTRITION INITIATIVES (ALN) , AFRICAN UNION, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, ALIKO DANGOTE FOUNDATION, BIG WIN PHILANTROPHY
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.1 - By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 - By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3 - Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.5 - By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.b - Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
Goal 2
2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.5 - By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c - Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Goal 6
6.1 - By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.2 - By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.3 - By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.4 - By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
6.5 - By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
6.6 - By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
6.a - By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
6.b - Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
Goal 12
12.1 - Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.6 - Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.7 - Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.a - Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.b - Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Goal 13
13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.2 - Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.a - Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b - Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
Goal 17
Finance -
17.1 - Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.2 - Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.3 - Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.4 - Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.5 - Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
Technology -
17.6 - Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.7 - Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.8 - Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
Capacity-Building -
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Trade -
Systemic Issues - Policy and Institutional coherence
17.13 - Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
17.18 - By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.19 - By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
DECEMBER 2019
4TH QUARTER ANNUAL REPORT (UP-COMING)
JUNE 2019
2ND QUARTER ANNUAL REPORT
MARCH 2019
MULTI-SECTORAL NUTRITION ACTION 2018 - 2025
SEPTEMBER 2019
3RD QUARTER ANNUALREPORT
In-kind contribution
MAJORITY OF ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE ARE VOLUNTARY
Staff / Technical expertise
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER USE HIS PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS SKILLS
Other, please specify
TRANSPORT - NO TRANSPORT TO DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THE NATION

Basic information
Time-frame: NOVEMBER / 2018 - NOVEMBER / 2025
Partners
UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO)-NUTRITION AMBASSADOR,AFRICAN UNION-NUTRITION CHAMPION,CONTINENTAL NUTRITION INITIATIVES LEADER, NUTRITION SECURITY FOR INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- CHAMPION, AFRICAN LEADERS FOR NUTRITION INITIATIVES (ALN) , AFRICAN UNION, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, ALIKO DANGOTE FOUNDATION, BIG WIN PHILANTROPHY
Countries
Contact information
THAMAE (MR.) THAMAE (MR.), PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, progvnrafrica@gmail.com
United Nations