Integrated Food and Nutrition Programme for South Africa

1. Integrated Food andNutrition Programme for South Africa PUBLIC HEARINGS OF PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HOUSING FOOD SECURITY CAPE TOWN 12 MARCH 2003

2. South African Constitution Section 27 (1) Everyone has the right to have access to – • sufficient food and water; and (2) The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to avail the progressive realisation of each of these rights

3. State Obligation on Food and Nutrition • Respect citizens right to food; • Provide protection to citizens against violation of their right to food; and • Fulfill citizens right to food where they cannot do it on their own.

4. Challenges • Net food importing rural black population; • Unstable household food production; • Lack of access to food; • Uneven outreach, representativity, transparency & competitiveness of food supply chain management systems; • Low income & job opportunities; • Poor household nutrition and food safety; • Weak human, social, physical & economic capital infrastructure; • Lack of information and communication systems; and • Weak food crisis management system.

5. Who are Vulnerable People? • Low or no income; • Infants and lactating mothers; • Children; • Child-headed households; • Orphaned children; • People with disabilities; • Female-headed households; • Pensioners; • People infected and affected by chronic and debilitating diseases; • Disaster victims; • Total of 2.2 million households or over 12 million people.

6. Where are Vulnerable People • Former homelands; • Commercial farms; • Informal settlements; • Black townships; and • Inner cities.

7. Income of Vulnerable People • They spend less than R600 per month: • 167 684 spend less than R200 • 962 625 spend R200 – R300 • 473 784 spend R300 – R400 • 631 947 spend R400 – R500

8. Vision Universal physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food by all South Africans at all times to meet their dietary and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

9. Approach • Tackle the worst problem first; • State measures should enable beneficiaries to take charge of their means to realize their food needs; • Integrate short- to medium- and long-term measures; • Reduce producer, processing and consumer beneficiary linkages; • Organize consumers into a countervailing force; • Build outreach, representativity, transparency & competitiveness in the food supply chain system; • Basic food basket for different household sizes; and • All stakeholders should contribute something.

10. Strategic Objectives • Increase household food production and trading; • Increase community income & job opportunities; • Improve household nutrition and food safety; • Improve safety nets and food emergency management systems; and • Improve information and communication management systems.

11. Target Reduce the number of the hungry and malnourished HHs in 2015 by half.

12. Targeted Beneficiaries • Areas: • 13 rural development nodes; • 8 urban renewal nodes; and • Poverty pockets outside the nodes. • People: • Children; • Child-headed households; • Orphaned children; • People with disabilities; • Female-headed households; • People with low or no income; • Victims of declared natural or other disasters, and • People infected and affected by chronic and debilitating diseases. • Income: • Spend up to R300 per month.

13. Programmes & Processes ANALYSIS OF FOOD INSECURITY SITUATION STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE CAPACITY BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOOD SECURITY STRATEGY FOOD PRODUCTION & TRADING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME NUTRITION AND FOOD SAFETY SOCIAL SAFETY NETS & FOOD EMERGENCY

14. Food Production and Trading • Raise household, community and school food garden production; • Intensity crop production and livestock diversification; • Improve training, financial and marketing services; • Improve sustainable community resource management; • Provide research development and technology transfer; • Organize and empower beneficiary food producers, processors and consumers; • Promote business and entrepreneurial development; • Establish strategic grain reserves; • Improve risk management systems; and • Build a representative, transparent, well-spread and competitive food supply management chain system.

15. Community Development Projects • Promote non-farm rural income & job opportunities; • Build community amenities and services (health, education, roads, water, telecommunications, energy); • Promote labour-intensive natural resource restoration and rehabilitation works projects; • Develop local and regional markets and marketing networks; • Promote formation and development of community-based organisations; • Link small and medium to larger agro enterprises; • Provide community education and training; and • Promote rural and agri-tourism.

16. Nutrition & Food Safety • School feeding; • Nutrition education; • Nutrition for lactating mothers, infants and children; • Nutrition for people infected and affected by chronic and debilitating diseases; • Vitamin supplementation; • Food handling; • Labeling; • Public food safety education; and • Food safety regulation.

17. Safety Nets & Food Emergencies • Child support; • Pension support; • Fiscal and monetary incentives; • Disability income; and • Food emergency support.

18. Information and Communication Management • Profile of beneficiary groups; • Food and nutrition insecurity, vulnerability and information mapping systems; • Nutrition and food safety education; • Education and training; • Early warning systems; • Communication strategy; • Monitoring and evaluation systems; • Service delivery standards; and • Key performance indicators.

19. Institutional Arrangements & Structures Inter-Ministerial Committee National Steering Committee • Food and Nutrition Projects: • Food Production and trading; • Community Development Projects; • Nutrition and food safety; • Safety nets and food emergencies; • Information and Communication management National Food and Nutrition Forum Food & Nutrition Agency Provincial Coordinating Units Provincial Food and Nutrition Forum District Coordinating Units District Food and Nutrition Forum Local Coordinating Units Local Food an Nutrition Community Action Groups Beneficiary Households/Groups/Associations B

20. Lead Department Responsibilities • Agriculture: • Overall IFNSP co-ordinator; • Food Production and Trading. • Social Development: • National Food Emergency. • Public Works: • Community Development Programme. • Education: • School Nutrition. • Health: • Integrated Food Safety and Nutrition. • Statistics South Africa: • Information and Communication Management.

21. National Steering Committee • Provide a forum for departments, provinces and national agencies; • Provide policy and strategic guidance for provinces; • Approve national work plans and conditional grants to provinces; • Review the progress and impact of the programme; • Convene specialised expert panels to provide guidance on specific areas such as irrigation and water control, crop production, livestock, etc, as required.

22. Food and Nutrition Agency Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs National Steering Committee Managing Director Finance and Administration Unit Provincial Co-ordination Unit Programmes Co-ordination Unit Information and Communications Unit Research & Policy Unit

23. Food and Nutrition Agency • Responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of the Programme and for planning, ensuring effective link between all interest parties, ensuring timely supply of inputs, facilitating overall monitoring, evaluation and reporting; • Responsible to the NSC and would have a secretariat within the DOA; • Responsible for the preparation of future phases of the programme.

24. Provincial Steering Committee • Provide policy and strategic guidance in the province; • Approve work plans and review progress and impact; • Responsible for implementation in the provinces and represent the province in the NSC; • Received support for supervision and advice from the FNA; • Provincial Coordinator a member of the PSC; and • Provide support to the DC and subject matter specialist; • The District Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the subject matter specialists; • The subject matter specialists are site-managers to each programme intervention area and the first responsible in interaction with communities.

25. District Steering Committee • Responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the subject matter specialists; • Identify and provide council and community owned land for food garden production; • Assist community organisations with technical, financial and administrative matters; • Build multipurpose centres for marketing and financial services; • The subject matter specialists are site-managers to each programme intervention area and the first responsible in interaction with communities; • Register and support the formation of community organisation; • Devolve implementation responsibility to community, service and business organisations; • Ensure inclusion community food and nutrition needs in the integrated development plans.

26. Beneficiaries • Affiliate to or form community organisations; • Take their food and nutrition needs to local government; • Ensure that their food and nutrition needs are included in the integrated development plans; • Assume the implementation of projects within their localities; • Contribute to the running of their projects.

27. Implementation Principles • All stakeholders must plan and budget; • Implementation through decentralized Annual Work Plans and Budgets (AWPB); • Devolve implementation responsibility to end-users; • Provide participants with means to implement activities; • Improve the capacity to manage and implement activities; • Clear procedures for withdrawal, spending and accounting of funds; and • Provide support and co-ordination through a management unit that reports to a national steering committee.

28. Expected Outputs • Profile or targeted beneficiaries; • Basic foods basket for beneficiary households; • Supply chain management system for basic foods; • Strategic grain reserves; • Food an nutrition agency; • Food and nutrition insecurity map; • Beneficiaries’ cooperatives/groups; • National food emergency scheme; • School holiday nutrition scheme; and • School nutrition scheme.

29. Expected Outputs • School gardens scheme; • Home food gardens; • Community food gardens; • Food benefit transfer system; • Food fortification scheme; • Community works schemes; and • Community food centres.

30. Key Performance Indicators • Reduced number of food insecure households; • Affordable food products; • Increased nutritional levels; • Increased jobs and income levels; • Increased safety nets; and • Established food emergency management systems.

31. Implementation Plan • Establish: • National food and nutrition task team; • Provincial food and nutrition task teams; • District food and nutrition task teams; • Local food and nutrition action groups; • Community-based food and nutrition organisations; and • Food and Nutrition Agency (FANA).

32. Implementation Plan • Audit existing food an nutrition security schemes; • Design food coupon scheme; • Set key performance indicators; • Set service delivery standards; • Consult on food security legislation; and • Convene a food and nutrition summit.

33. Implementation Plan • Establish management and administrative structures; • Design information and communication systems; • Design monitoring and evaluation systems; • Approval of priority programmes; • Design a framework of spending the R400 million for each of the next two years; and • Approval of plan of action.

34. National Food Emergency Scheme Allocation

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