Adrona Kyalimpa Kabarole District, Uganda
“After the death of my husband, my in-laws divided the land among themselves, and I was given a very small piece—yet I had eight children to look after.... My sisters-in-law sold off their shares and returned to their homes for they were married. The last two seasons were not good. My crops were destroyed by the dry sea- son, and the banana plantation was badly affected by the heavy storm....”
“The government should have zero tolerance for corrup- tion. Grants have never been distributed fairly. Items like goats and cows are given to those who are rich and known to those distributing them, especially politicians. That is very annoying to people like me who deserve such items.”
Recommendations for Country-Level Policymakers in Food-Insecure Countries 8. Develop national approaches to food and nutrition security that are resilient to shocks and other stresses. Ensure that external and international actors buy into those approaches and support them. External actors should work with national actors to devel- op context-specific tools for analyzing, measuring, and assess- ing resilience.
9. Encourage and facilitate a multisectoral approach to resilience (as the Scaling Up Nutrition movement encourages a multisec- toral approach to nutrition, for example), coordinating plans and programs across line ministries. Evaluate national sectoral strat- egies and action plans using disaster-proofing and resilience- building lenses.
10. Put in place policies that strengthen resilience to undernutrition, such as tenure security for smallholder farmers, and adjust poli- cies and strategies that undermine the resilience of poor and vul- nerable groups, such as the low import tariffs or the structural neglect of smallholder agriculture in Haiti.
11. Ensure that policies and programs draw on a wide range of exper- tise such as collaborative, multiagency, and multisectoral problem analysis. National governments should support the emergence of multistakeholder platforms and make active use of such forums. In particular, people suffering from a lack of resilience to shocks and stresses that affect their food and nutrition security should be consulted. It is essential that wherever possible, efforts to strengthen resilience should build on the empowering mechanisms and institutions they suggest.
Jonathan Nturo Employee of Welthungerhilfe,
Rwanda
“Before the implementation of the rice policy, the price was high at 300 Rwandan francs (RWF) per kilo, but now the price has been fixed by the Ministry of Com- merce at 255 RWF per kilo. In addition, training in planning and budgeting, as well as in creating business plans, in all supported cooperatives is important to in- crease yield per hectare and handle the market price.”
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Recommendations for Development and Humanitarian Practitioners 12. A resilience perspective can encourage development program- ming that factors in uncertainty and volatility and humanitarian programming that works toward sustainable development. Some programs can incorporate both objectives by (1) first providing relief, and then seeking to gradually build individual, household, and community assets or by (2) building assets in normal times but incorporating financial and operational flexibility into pro- grams to allow them to switch quickly to relief operations when shocks hit.
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