Food and Nutrition Security - Kenya

Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Integrating the care and support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) into the implementation of Home-Grown-School-Feeding Programmes (HGSF) was advanced through a pilot programme in Kenya and Nigeria with the aim to ensure that OVCs are targeted for school feeding and given additional skills to prepare them to be more self-reliant. A situation analysis report for South Africa was completed as part of sharing best practices on OVC support.

Measuring Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) study: Kenya is among the third-phase countires (Cameroon, Botswana, Kenya, Mauritania) to implement the COHA study. The overarching objective of the multi-country study led by the AUC, NEPAD, WFP and UNECA, is to catalyse coordinated action and inform the design of nutrition-oriented policy frameworks and programmes, with greater investments to eradicate child undernutrition on the continent.

Programme Reference

Food and Nutrition Security

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Kenya

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Key Results

Kenya raised the profile of malnutrition in Africa and demonstrated it’s far reaching consequences to social and economic development among other 15 countries with lessons shared across the continent

Conducted a continent-wide study and a pilot programme for integrating the care and support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) into the implementation of Home-Grown-School-Feeding Programmes (HGSF)

Developed a continental platform for sharing experiences, knowledge and mutual learning for 8 countries as well as measuring progress in achieving food and nutrition security for by governments and multi-stakeholder partners

Kenya with other 9 countries has been selected in the first-wave cohort that will implement the Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa (IFNA)

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