Harnessing Public Private

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Partnerships to Ensure Food

Security in Asia
 Outline of Presentation
I. World Food Programme: Hunger Solutions
Agency
II. The Face of Hunger in Asia: Food Security,
Vulnerability, Analysis and Mapping
III. Making the case for Multi-stakeholder
investments in nutrition and food security
IV. Cases of Public-Private Partnerships and
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Social Investments in Nutrition and Food

Security
A. Purchase for Progress
B. Project Laser Beam

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 Who is the World Food Programme?
WFP is the world’s largest
humanitarian organization
fighting hunger worldwide.
WFP is the United Nations
hunger solutions agency and
one of Rome-based food
agencies
WFP’s food assistance supports
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90 million people in 74 countries

in 2010

WFP is 100% funded and supported

by voluntary contributions.
Testimony to the confidence in our
ability to save, protect, and build
livelihoods.
 WFP’s Strategic Plan: 5 Objectives
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 Where do the Hungry Live ?
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Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO (2009)..

 The Face of Hunger in Asia:
Measuring Food Security and Vulnerability
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 Economic Cost of Hunger and Malnutrition

A decrease of 1% in A decrease of 1% in poverty

malnutrition rates, achieves a rates, achieves a 0.25%
4% decrease in poverty decrease in malnutrition rates

5 % Decrease 20% Decrease

in Malnutrition in Poverty Rate
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Rates

An efficient way of fighting poverty is to

address hunger and malnutrition
Source: Alderman, Harold. Linkages Between Poverty Reduction Strategies and Child Nutrition. 2004
 Actions / Investments needed
Track 1: Track 2:
Strengthen productivity and income Provide direct access to food

infrastructure food aid

laws cash transfers

policies safety nets

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science & access to seeds, fertilizers

technology and farming equipment

Ending Hunger

Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO (2009).

 WFP Nutrition Strategy
Phase 1: Food Phase 2: Scalability Phase 3: Market Availability

▪ Improved Ingredients ▪ Proven Products ▪ Local Market

▪ Fortification ▪ Nutrition Mapping ▪ Development
▪ Quality Control ▪ Logistics ▪ Increase Volume
▪ New Foods
Nutrition strategy
building blocks
Improved Nutrition
Identify Target for all WFP
Groups Needs 2015 beneficiaries
with local production
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2009 Foods capacity enhanced

New & Improved
2007 and Micronutrients
Fortification

Food Basket Food Quality Assurance

With Basic and
Commodities Programming Approach
(Staples, Oil,
Salt, and
Pulses
 Purchase for Progress (P4P) :
Connecting Smallholders to Markets
Access to Markets : Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and
over 52,000 mts of food purchased Howard G. Buffett
Foundation provided
Linking Smallholder Farmers to
over US$76 million
Training, Credit, Technology

Promoting a sustainable Focused on 21 Pilot

Supply Chain Countries with 2 in Asia
(Afghanistan and Lao
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PDR)

500,000 smallholder
farmers supported for 5
years
 Connecting sustainable solutions for
smallholder farmers
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 Connecting Sustainable Solutions to
improve Access to Nutrition
Nutrition Education 5 KEYS TO TACKLING
Nutrition Mapping & CHILD MALNUTRITION
Strategy Formulation
1) Increase household food
Nutrition Fortification
security
Food Quality 2) Increase micronutrient
intake
Food Technology/ R&D 3) Improve hygiene and
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parasite control
4) Increase treatment of
severe acute malnutrition
5) Improve breastfeeding
and complementary
feeding
 PROJECT LASER BEAM
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1) Focused on Bangladesh and Indonesia, a 5-year $50 million

initiative to end malnutrition
2) Partnership between UN agencies (WFP, UNICEF and WHO)
with Unilever, Kraft Foods, DSM and the Global Alliance in
Nutrition to harness the power of global, regional and local
business and to drive investments towards nutrition and
local production.
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 Thank you!

Cynthia Jones
Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Head, Private Partnerships for Asia

World Food Programme
WFP Regional
Regional Bureau for Asia
Bureau for Asia
Bangkok, Thailand
Cynthia.Jones@wfp.org