Ending Child Hunger in India

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Ending Child Hunger in India
Partnering with Local Institutions for National
Advocacy
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National capacities a strong basis for leverage

• India strong capacities and national resources
  for advocacy on child hunger and under-nutrition.
• WFP actively collaborating to intensify,
  synergize and focus advocacy approaches with
  various types levels of partners
• National foundation
• National state initiatives
• Private sector

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1. National foundation

• Hunger Free India a unique platform for
  collaboration
• Partnership between MS Swaminathan Research
  Foundation WFP since early 2000s, built on
  shared vision of Hunger Free India
• Joint Technical Resource Center set up at MSSRF
• Objective to enhance knowledge base and
  disseminate food and nutritional security
  analysis on rural and urban India
• From vision to action Prof. Swaminathan as
  Chairman of National Commission on Farmers
  represents all rural farm households in India
  600 million people!

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1.1 Ending child hunger and undernutrition a
new partnership

• Launched April 2006 during Mission 2007 Hunger
  Free India annual dialogue
• Led by Prof. Swaminathan, UNICEF WFP
• Focuses on joint efforts to strengthen GoI
  programmes in 3 strategic areas
• Health and Nutrition
• Primary Education
• HIV-AIDS

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2. National and state initiatives

• Adolescent Girls Initiative for Reproductive
  Health, Nutritional Education, HIV Awareness
• 10 local NGOs reached 18,000 girls through 842
  girl-groups
• Local production of fortified blended food
• Over 10,000 Village Mother and Child Centers
  supported
• Salt iodization 360 small salt producers
• Food For Human Development Project for
  strengthening delivery of basic social services
• 7 NGOs reaching 600 SHWGs (8,000 women)
• Ongoing capacity-building advocacy with local
  partners counterparts 40 districts in 8
  states

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Private sector

• An opportunity for advocacy
• The Bhavishya (Future) Alliance Indian
  Partnership for Child Nutrition
• Consolidates skills from Government, States,
  Corporations NGOs to reduce child malnutrition
• Technical assistance from World Bank, UNICEF WFP