The Strategy for Food Security and Nutrition (ESAN II) 2008-2015 results from the evolution of ESAN I approved by the Government of Mozambique in 1998, through the Internal Resolution 16/98. The ESAN II fits into national and international policies and international legislation. National policies emphasize the Agenda 2025, the Five-Year Government Programme, the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA II), the National Strategic Plan to Combat HIV/AIDS, and the policies and strategies sectoral and multisectoral. The National Gender Policy advocate greater equality and equity of gender in development interventions and promotes the elevation of the Women's status in the governing bodies and the level of public administration. Thus, the government and society at large They have carried out actions to gradually overcome the existing imbalances at these levels. The Food Security and Nutrition Action Plan (PASAN) covers a time horizon from 2008 to 2015. The PASAN comes with the overall objective of contributing to the planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of actions that contribute paca improving the SAN among vulnerable populations, taking into account the various alimentares8 economies zones existing in the country. The ESAN II has the objectives and goals of the millennium and the PARPA II in food and nutrition sectors. The ESAN II goals are intermediate (2009/2010) and finals (2015). The overall strategic objective of ESAN II is to ensure that all citizens have, at all times, physical and economic access to necessary food, so that they have an active and healthy life, realizing their human right to adequate food. The main strategic objectives of the specific ESAN II are: ensuring the country's food self-sufficiency; to contribute to the improvement of the purchasing power of households; to reduce the incidence of malnutrition (acute and chronic) by improving health, sanitation and water through food and nutrition education; to ensure progressively the realization of the human right to adequate food for all citizens; to increase the capacity of households to respond to seasonal variations in production, physical and economic access to adequate food; and to create and develop an appropriate framework for a multi-sectoral and inter-institutional intervention comprehensive and inclusive.
Mozambique · 2007-09-01