IMPROVING THE FOOD SECURITY AND
NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF VC
HOUSEHOLDS
SCORE ANNUAL REVIEW, 17th – 21st OCT 2016
NILE RESORT JINJA
Presented by:
Food Security and Nutrition Team
FRANCIS OBITA, JOANITA NNANYUNJA, MEDI MISSAGA, ROBINAH
NNANUNGI, MICHAEL BONGOMIN
Strategies
Strategy 1:
Increased HH
food production
Strategy 2:
Improve food
utilization at HH
High level
Outcome:
Food Secured and
well nourished
vulnerable
children and their
households
Strategy 3:
Refer cases to
Nutrition
services
Strategy 4:
Link
HHs/Groups to
Agric services &
programmes
Approaches
1. Farmer Field
Schools
2. Urban
horticulture
3. Customized
knowledge and
Skills transfer
Integrated
Management
of Acute
Malnutrition
1. Behaviour
change
communication
2. Positive
Deviance +
Hearth
Value chain
development
How we fit in the BIGGER picture…
1. National Development Plan 2016-2020. SCORE FSN activities are directly contributing to
the 3rd chapter (Development) of the NDP II through the various interventions in the food
security and nutrition thematic areas.
2. Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2011-2016. SCORE FSN interventions directly
contribute to 3 out of 5 objectives of the UNAP following the much proposed
multi-sectoral approach, and these are objectives 1, 2 and 3
3. National Agriculture Policy Uganda 2013. SCORE FSN interventions contribute
directly to all 6 objectives of the policy.
4. African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Plan (CAADP).
SCORE FSN interventions contribute to all the 2 declarations of the 2014 AU sitting
in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
5. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SCORE’s FSN interventions are directly
contributing towards the achieving of seven SDG goals #1 (end poverty in all its
forms), #2 (end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture), #3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at
all ages) #7 (access to affordable and sustainable energy), , #8 (Promote sustained,
inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and
decent work for all), #12 (sustainable production and consumption of food), #13
(Combat Climate Change)
FFS Results - Cumulative
Activities
• Season long
learning,
• Registration as
PMGs,
• Commercial farming,
food crop production
• PHH and Value
Addition training
• Savings
• FFS Group
enterprises
Outputs
• 11,372 HHs in FFS
• 508 FFS groups
formed
• 357 Registered
PMGs
• Food security crops
cultivated
• Commercial
production carried
out
• Agronomic practices
tried and validated
• Farmers certified
SDG 2. End hunger, achieve food
security and improved nutrition
and promote sustainable
agriculture
Reduced
vulnerability
Outcomes
Period without
interruption in
food access 7 –
9 ½ months
78% of HHs
apply Good
Agronomic
Practices
Increased
productivity
Only 19% go a
day without food
FFS Results – graduation of groups
Horticulture Results – Cumulative
•
•
Activities
Training in Backyard gardening/intensive
gardening techniques
Establishment of Backyard gardening using sack
mounds, compost-pit kitchen gardens, mandala
gardens
Outputs
• 23,869 HHs trained in backyard gardening
• 11,167 HHs established backyard gardens
• Over 20 varieties of vegetables cultivated
SDG 1: End
poverty in all
its forms
everywhere
SDG 12:
Ensure
sustainable
consumption
and
production
patterns
Outcome
• Average of UGX 31,000/= per HH per year
from backyard gardens
• 4.1% down from 48% don’t eat “Glow” foods
regularly
Reduced
vulnerability
Behaviour Change Communication
Results – Cumulative
Outputs
Activities
•
•
•
•
•
Nutrition Education and Dialogues
Cooking Demonstrations
Radio Spot messages and talk shows
Train Nutrition Peer Educators
Promotion of use of Energy-saving
Stoves
Outcome
Reduced
vulnerabi
lity
64% of HH have good
nutritional practices
94.2% of HHs
consume a balanced
diet
• 165 sub-counties
covered in Nutrition
Education/dialogue
• 250 main Nutrition
Educ/Dialogues and
cooking demos held
• 39,322 persons attend
Nutrition
Educ/dialogue and
cooking demo
sessions
• Nutrition peer educ
programme
established
SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture
Trends in Nutritional Outcomes
Nutritional Case Management
Results – Cumulative
Outcomes
99.5% of cases managed to
completion
Outputs
708 malnutrition
cases referred
Activities
Routine screening of U-5 children
Referral of cases
Follow up of discharged or
defaulted cases
Efficient case management
system
Reduction in the prevalence
of wasting and underweight
SCORE desks at
some Health
Facilities
SDG 3: Ensure healthy
lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
Bring on Malnutrition!!!
We are ready to shoot it down!
Linkage to Agricultural Services
Results – Cumulative
SDG 8: Promote sustained,
inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and
productive employment and
decent work for all
Reduced
vulnerability
Outcome 1
PMGs have been included in Subcounty and district Dev plans
Output 1
Activities
Value Chain
Development PoA
357 PMGs
registered
Output 2
Over 80
FFS/PMGs linked
to other
Projects/programs
Outcome 2
Some PMGs and HHs have
access to lucrative markets
Outcome 3
About 45% of linked groups
have received input or
funding support
2016 Targets vs Achievements
Activities
Central
Target
Direct households to be
supported through FFS
North
Achieved
Target
684
835
990
West
Achieved Target Achieved Target
635 216
Achieved
Target
198
123 2,000
40
80
141
153
26
9
93
250
xx
250
422 250
Number of households with
backyard gardens (60%)
750
154
750
62 750
33
10
44
25*
50
24
50
5
112
Total
108
Number of vulnerable
children supported through
JFFLS
Beneficiaries participating in
behaviour change activities
for improved nutritional
statuses and practices
Number of groups
completing their learning
cycles
Number of acute
malnutrition cases identified
and put on treatment (%)
East
Achieved
1,701
300
354
810
250 1,075 1,000
2,307
282
750
1,055
12
13
11
11
100
59
50
10
50
0
200
39
557 3,000
Results: Qualitative – Quotes,
stories and Pictures
2016 Most Significant change presentation by
Regions
• South-West: Reduction in # of malnutrition
cases
• North: Increased engagement of HHs in
production activities
• Central: Improved nutritional status
Key Learning –best practices and
Areas for strengthening
• FFS validated as a best practice rural extension
approach
• Nutrition Peer Education critical for
improvement in nutritional practices
• Backyard gardening difficult to sustain or scale
up. Most HHs have then as demo mainly.
• The referral system with NPE rather than VHTs
more efficient.
Challenges & opportunities
• Service linkage to both public and private sector
quite dynamic and unstable.
• Continuous dependence on Rain-fed farming system.
Need to mechanise and irrigate!
• High influx of counterfeit Agro-inputs in the market.
Big risk to investment in Agriculture
• Intra-Organizational linkages (SCORE-SKY, SCORE-DSP,
SCORE-ALIVE)
• PPP for Sustainability of Value chain engagement by
the PMGs
COP Priorities – Focus for Year 6
Code
Activities
Targets
2.1.1
Maintanance FFS
1500
2.1.2
Household trained in horticulture/BYG
and have backyard gardens
2000
2.2.1/2.2.2
Households trained on nutrition/
Cooking demons
1000
2.3
FFS groups registered and graduated
50
2.3.1
Malnourished children referred
50
Ringrazio e Arriverderci!