Nourishing the Post COVID-19 World Stineke Oenema UNSCN Coordinator, on behalf of the Nutrition & NCDs Thematic Working Group 13 th November 2020 UNSCN United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition 1 2 3 4 1
Food Systems Summit September 2021 Presented by Jamie Morrison, FAO Visit: www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit ACTION TRACKS 1. Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all 2. Shift to sustainable consumption patterns 3. Boost nature-positive production 4. Advance equitable livelihoods 5. Build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress 5 6 7 8 2
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Impact and actions to mitigate COVID-19 – the importance of nutrition in school-age children Maree Bouterakos Nutritionist 13 14 Children are among the biggest victims of crisis Investing in school age children Promoting healthy growth in the first 8000 days l Learning is significantly impacted, as is the likelihood of continuation/return to education 8000 days – need First 1000 days - to continue essential l Disruption to assess of essential services pose a threat to child survival and investment health Intrauterine, brain growth and Catch-up and sustained development growth l Remote working widens the divide with many children without internet access at home l More households have been pushed into multidimensional poverty l If alternatives to school meals are not identified, food security is impacted, with children missing out on nutritious school meals Source: Shuttershock.com 15 17 4
Global monitoring of school meals during COVID-19 school Global monitoring of school meals during COVID-19 school closures – April 2020 (peak) closures – current situation https://cdn.wfp.org/2020/school-feeding- https://cdn.wfp.org/2020/school-fe map/ 18 19 Responding in partnership Actions to mitigate COVID-19 on school-age children 30 low-income countries 30 Fragile Countries 10 million children Integrated package (SHN) Health (WASH) School Nutrition feeding Coalition of partners led by UNICEF and WFP US$600 million 6 months Investing in the future of the most vulnerable Source: Joint guidance W FP, FAO and UN ICEF children https://www.wfp.org/publications/m itigating-effects-covid-19-pandem ic-food-and-nutrition- schoolchildren 20 21 5
Emerging lessons from country experiences in managing Key messages the process of re-opening schools WFP is investing school age children, in a medium to longer term recovery phase Safe operations Focus on learning When schools have re-opened: re-establish regular and safe delivery of • • Prioritizing early grades • Clear protocols for re-closing • Implement context appropriate • Simplifying the curriculum essential services. Flexibly planning to shift back to adaptations quickly if health and hygiene protocols • Supporting school staff to situation changes • Measures to reduce physical implement remediation and contact and limit transmission manage students psychosocial When schools remain closed: continued adaptations to support learning, needs • Wellbeing and protection Reaching the most marginalized health (including psychosocial health) and nutrition • Early and regular • Additional education funding communication with school • Specific measures to support Programme linkages and integrating nutrition within the school platform community • girls to return to school • (Re)- establishing regular and • Communications being Continue to advocate and collect age specific research and data to ensure • safe delivery of services such as available in different languages vaccines and school feeding and all accessible formats attention of school-age children 22 23 Legal Perspective to the response to the food crisis during COVID-19 Thank you ! 24 25 6
Strengthening Food Security for Vulnerable Strengthening Food Security for Vulnerable Groups, Women and Girls in the Context of the Global Response To Covid-19 Groups, Women and Girls in the Context of the Global Response To Covid-19 Pilot Project in Honduras and Uganda Foundations IDLO and FAO collaboration to • Rule of law and human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to increase understanding of challenges the response to COVID-19 provide solid frameworks for to access to food in emergency and ASSESS DEVELOP enhancing sustainable and healthy diets. recovery situations and of potential •Assess impact of •Develop guidance and emergency laws and briefing notes on policy and legal solutions amongst regulations on access to solutions that enhance • Food security, nutrition, health and human rights Evolving food food security for relevant stakeholders vulnerable groups approach from “food access” to “sustainable and healthy SUPPORT CONSULT diets” Participation of relevant •Support platforms for •Convene stakeholder § monitoring and consultations with state reporting on access to institutions, stakeholders in all phases of food for vulnerable international • Agenda 2030: Sustainable and healthy diets to accelerate groups, women and girls organizations, and civil the project society progress towards nutrition and health-related SDGs 26 27 Review of COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plans through an NCD * Lens * Migration keyword search included Department of Noncommunicable Diseases World Health Organization 28 29 7
Purpose Methods • Documents reviewed came from three sources : l Assess to what extent NCDs are covered in these plans. o Rapid assessment of service delivery for NCDs during the COVID 19 Pandemic (1st-31st May) l Validate responses received to the CPRP-related questions in o Rapid assessment of continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic (01 June –15 July) the NCD Dept’s rapid assessment on the impact of COVID-19 o Any additional CPRPs identified by Health Services Resilience Team (UH/IHS) in their on NCD-related resources and services review of CPRPs received through https://covid19partnersplatform.who.int/ as including EHS l Provide more detailed information on the extent to which NCDs • A questionnaire was developed in collaboration with colleagues across HQ are addressed in the guidelines for essential health services. NCD Dept and EURO containing the questions to be answered per document. l Review guidelines on comorbidity data collection for inclusion of • The questionnaire was translated into an Excel file which was shared with NCDs reviewers for completion. o Reviewers responded to each question for each doc by completing the empty fields l Keyword search for capturing references to NCDs in the relating to each of the questions in the questionnaire. o Reviewers had space to copy and paste relevant text from the CPRP into the CPRPs not already covered elsewhere in the review. spreadsheet for later reference and add additional notes. Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Department of Noncommunicable Diseases World Health Organization World Health Organization 30 31 Methods - Questionnaire Methods - Questionnaire Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Department of Noncommunicable Diseases World Health Organization World Health Organization 32 33 8
Methods - Questionnaire Methods - Questionnaire Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Department of Noncommunicable Diseases World Health Organization World Health Organization 34 35 Methods - Questionnaire Results • A total of 121 documents from 87 countries were reviewed by reviewers from HQ and ROs Number of countries Number of Region (% of total in region) documents AFR 18 (38%) 25 AMR 9 (26%) 14 EMR 13 (62%) 18 EUR 23 (43%) 33 SEAR 9 (82%) 11 WPR 15 (56%) 20 Total 87 121 Department of Noncommunicable Diseases Department of Noncommunicable Diseases World Health Organization World Health Organization 36 37 9
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