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To address the nutritional challenges, the group believes that the Angolan government must first recognize the depth of the hunger problem in the country, as the president has so far stated that hunger is relative among the Angolan population. It is urgent to implement public policies that encourage and facilitate local and family agricultural and industrial food production, promoting dietary variation and diversification. Community organization is essential to establish efficient production chains, allowing small producers to transport and market their products sustainably. At the same time, ... Read morenutritional education programs should be developed to raise awareness at all levels about the importance of a balanced diet. Support from NGOs, churches, and local groups is also necessary, as they can create solidarity initiatives such as maintaining community gardens in schools and neighborhoods and school meal programs, ensuring continuous access to quality food. Small individual actions, such as food contributions and adopting vulnerable families, can be effective in the short term but should be aligned with long-term strategies with government support. Another point raised by the participants is that the government, in this time of economic crisis, should institute a fixed price table for basic food items to ensure access to a minimally acceptable balanced diet without being too burdensome for everyone in society. Read less

1: Implement educational programs and workshops in the IDPs to teach mothers about proper child feeding practices, including the benefits of breastfeeding and essential nutrition. 2: Establish and expand feeding programs focused on children, especially those who are sick or recovering from malnutrition, to ensure proper nutrition and support their recovery. 3: Support local food production through expanded kitchen gardening services to increase the availability of affordable, healthy foods in markets and assist families in need.

Les participanst à ce dilaogue ont proposé les actions urgentes suivantes , à savoir : Fournir une assistance en espèces : distribuer des fonds aux déplacés pour leur permettre d’acheter des aliments variés adaptés à leurs besoins; Créer des opportunités d’emploi : mettre en place des programmes de travaux publics ou des activités génératrices de revenus; Améliorer l’abris pour faciliter une bonne conservation des aliments Plaider pour la paix et la sécurité : mobiliser les autorités locales et nationales pour restaurer un environnement sûr; Renforcer l’équité dans... Read more les ciblages humanitaires : promouvoir la transparence et combattre les pratiques discriminatoires lors des distributions; Améliorer l’accès à l’eau potable : investir dans des infrastructures hydrauliques pour le site Read less

Participants emphasized the urgent need for immediate interventions to address acute malnutrition and prevent hunger. They called for the provision of direct food and cash assistance to those in immediate need. There was also a strong push for implementing nutrition education programs in schools and community centers to raise awareness about healthy eating practices. Ensuring the availability of affordable, nutritious food options was seen as critical, along with promoting local food production through community gardens. Participants also stressed the importance of providing food and cash assi... Read morestance for low-income families and offering regular health check-ups and nutritional counseling. To implement these actions, participants suggested a multi-faceted approach involving various stakeholders. Engaging community members in planning and implementation was seen as essential to ensure the success of nutrition programs. Collaborating with local businesses, NGOs, and government bodies was recommended to pool resources and expertise. Participants also proposed setting up systems to monitor and evaluate nutrition programs to ensure their effectiveness. Training community members to become nutrition advocates and improving infrastructure to support food distribution and storage were also considered important steps. Read less

some of the actions proposed from participants include the following : 1. in terms of nutrition commitments the participants observed the need to share them among all government sectors to create ownership among key stakeholders that have a role in ensuring that these are fulfilled on the domestic context. for example, the commitment made by government to increase nutrition budgetary allocation of the district budget to 5% was difficult because others agencies such as district officials and the National Local Government Financing Committee was not aware of these commitments. 2. on the M and E ... Read moresystems participants noted that it is key to promote sharing of data so that there could be improvements in the implementation of nutrition programs 3. on the challenges on food systems coordination, the participants proposed the need to lobby for government to assign the role of coordination in the office of the president or the national planning commission as the two institutions have overarching mandate on each institutions 4. on making fresh nutrition for growth commitments, the participants were of the view that instead of making unrealistic commitments, the government should only ensure that new commitments are relevant and reflect the view of wider stakeholder. Read less

Les actions urgentes à entreprendre sont les suivantes : Aux partenaires d’appuyer les communautés avec les AGR pour lutter contre la malnutrition ; Renforcer les activités agricoles ; Initier des projets d’appui des ménages surtout les femmes en activités génératrices des revenus.; la construction et équipement du Centre de Santé selon les normes et qui soit proche de nous pour avoir les soins de qualité; la construction du PONT au niveau de Comigiem pour nous connecter au Quartier Salongo 2 ça facilite la circulation des biens et de la monnaie; l’amélioration et régularisa... Read moretion des salaires des travailleurs; Aménagement des routes pour permettre la circulation fluide des biens et services; Appui aux ménages avec les kits aratoires pour faire l’agriculture ; Read less

- Malnutrition Screening /Growth Monitoring of Children under 5years - Explaining Reporting Forms that will be used while screening malnutrition and giving messages to families - Providing accurate Reports and on time -Community sensitization

- Malnutrition Screening /Growth Monitoring of Children under 5years and rehabilitation to malnourished children - Explaining Reporting Forms that will be used while screening malnutrition and giving messages to families - Providing accurate Reports and on time

Comme pistes des solutions les deux groupes ont presentes les elements ci apres qu’une fois mise en œuvre ca va resoudre ce probleme de nutrition dans cette communaute de Maluku, il s’agit de : - Consommer de l’eau potable surtout les enfants en eduquqnt la population sur coment rendre l’eau potable a la maison aussi a comment proteger de l’eau déjà potable. Aussi aux partenaires d’augmenter le nombre des forages dans la communaute, - Donner de l’emploi aux parents qui sont au chomage dans la communaute, soit des AGR car ceci permettra a beaucoup des parents d’arriver a fair... Read moree face aux difficultes de faire nourrir correctement leurs enfants du fait que le pouvoir d ;’achat va un peu augnmenter, aussi ils peuvent epargner un peu pour leurs permettre de bien nourrir les enfants a la maison, egalemnt de faire la promotion des pratiques d’elevage dans les maisons, - Assainir aussi le milieu meme nos parcelles, car une mauvaise hygiene en generale predispose le corps humain a faire des maladies y compris la malnutrition surtout si y a pas une bonne hygiene alimentaire d’où le travail de sensibilisation faite par les agents de sante en ilpliquant les leaders religieux pour faire vehiculer un bon message de comportament positifs. - Egalement sensibiliser et promouvoir les pratiques sur l’allaitement maternel chez tous les enfants de moins de 6 mois, Read less

- Malnutrition Screening /Growth Monitoring of Children under 5years - Rehabilitations of Malnourished children and Follow up - Providing accurate Report and on time

Les actions urgentes à entreprendre sont les suivantes Sensibiliser et appuyer les ménages à pratiquer les champs et l’élevage ;Sensibiliser continuellement les membres de la communauté sur la malnutrition ;Faire le plaidoyer auprès du Gouvernement National et Provincial en impliquant les Leaders Religieux et les autorités politico-administratives locales sur leur implication dans la lutte contre la malnutrition ;Renforcer la mise en œuvre de Consultation Préscolaire & Consultation Prénatale ;Le gouvernement doit prendre ses responsabilités en mains, pour améliorer la vie soc... Read moreiale de la population ;Sensibiliser la population sur la consommation des aliments de bonne qualité nutritive et de l’eau potable ;Encourager le jardin parcellaire pour chaque ménage ;Travailler en Association càd Encourager l’esprit associatif pour lutter contre la malnutrition ;Vulgariser le calendrier agricole ; Conscientiser la population sur la persistance de la malnutrition qui tue les enfants dans nos communautés. Read less

1. Provide Nutritional Education for Farmers to increase crop production and diversify their farms. 2. Gardening is needed to increase nutritious crops at home. 3. Cooking lessons among women especially are required to impart skills. 4. Farmers need to learn food preservation methods. This will allow them to store food for a longer time than usual. Currently, most farmers complain of losing their harvest due to chemicals used to treat their produce. 5. Many are willing to generate income through other means besides farming, which disappoints them whenever there is drought. 6. Planting of fruit... Read more trees will be emphasized going forward. 7. Information dissemination on the dangers of malnutrition and reporting of suspected cases to the health facility Read less

Participants came up with urgent actions that should be done to find urgent solutions to nutrition related challenges. And they think that the central and local government institutions, faith denominations and NGOs have key roles to play. The actions they suggested are as follow: 1. Training people on how to take care of their arable land and that they should breed small livestock. 2. People should be sensitized not to misuse their harvest 3. Sensitizing citizens to engage in income generating activities so that they diversify their income. 4. Sensitize people around healthy eating 5. Sensitiz... Read moreing people around hygiene and cleanliness 6. People should be enabled to have access to improved seeds 7. Sensitized people around eating balanced diets 8. Sensitized people around birth planning 9. Initiating projects aiming at increasing food production 10. People spending time on public places erring should be held accountable as they do not contribute in food production. Read less