Subsequent to the global launch of the ENOUGH campaign in September 2023, WVE has also launched the same in February 2024. With ENOUGH campaign, WVE aims to contribute to the national effort of ending child hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia. The ENOUGH campaign lasts from 2024 – 2026.

During the three campaign years, World Vision will work with partners and stakeholders including government, I/NGOs, children, faith communities, media and others with a view of ensuring that children get enough nourishing food.

According to reports, Ethiopian children are impacted by 39% of stunting, 11% of wasting, 13% of micronutrient deficiencies and 55 deaths of every 1000 live births. These impacts result from a number of interactive factors including Conflict, COVID 19 aftershocks, rise of cost of living and climate change. World Vision Ethiopia launched the ENOUGH Campaign with the aim of bringing impacts in the lives of over 3,856,440 children across the country.

One of the ENOUGH campaign goals being “Children are visible and heard in hunger, nutrition & food security-related policies at all levels”, it is deemed necessary to organize a national level consultative event where key and relevant government ministerial offices /including Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Risk and Disaster Management Commission, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ministry of Health, etc./, Standing committee of Agriculture, and Social Affairs of the House of Peoples’ Representatives, Children Parliament, and others will take part in.

Up on the event, major stakeholders will convey key notes but most importantly children will raise critical issues to policy makers and service providers in search of designing effective intervention mechanisms to address child hunger and malnutrition.

The dialogue will be led by children with a view of participating them and raising their voices for decision makers and service providers.

Objective

The main objective of the event is to make ENOUGH campaign the agenda of the day and encourage stakeholders to join hands in seeking policy-level solutions around school feeding to curb child hunger and malnutrition in the country.

Specific Objectives

Specific objectives of the event include:

1. Agenda setting about ENOUGH
2. Share knowledge about child hunger and malnutrition amongst stakeholders
3. Encourage stakeholders to join hands in the effort of ending child hunger and malnutrition
4. Seek policy and practical options for a strategic intervention with a view of boosting school feeding programs to address child hunger and malnutrition, with a subsequent contribution to mitigating school dropout and absenteeism, and increase school enrolment, education quality and protection
5. Create a platform for stakeholders to discuss the issue
6. Participate children to raise their voices about the issue
7. Draw call of actions/asks for the stakeholders to address the issue of child hunger and malnutrition

Overall workshop will be led by child leaders from Children Parliament. Major activities on the event include the following:

1. Keynote Remarks by WVE National Director, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa City Administration Mayor
2. Presentation by WVE
3. Keynotes Speech by the Children Parliament Leader
4. Panel discussion
5. Best practices of World Vision and other partners in the area of school meals, cash, food and nutrition programming will be showcased in a gallery walk.