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| Hungry Children Of Africa |
The
African Union in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO), Instituto Lula and the New Economic Partnership for
African Development (NEPAD) have agreed to convene a High-Level Meeting for
Africa that will serve as a high level advocacy event to support Africa’s
initiatives and programmes to eliminate hunger.
The High
Level meeting has the following objectives:
1. Renew
the resolve and commitment on a common set of principles and concrete actions
to ensure NEPAD overall, and Comprehensive African Agricultural Programme
(CAADP) specifically, plays the role to coordinate and unify the different
ongoing initiatives aimed at eradicating hunger in Africa.
2. Agree
and commit to a set of principles, policies and strategies with a focus on a
Zero Hunger strategy by facilitating support to integrate purpose-specific
strategies and actions on comprehensive food-security and social development
into the national and regional CAADP Agriculture and Food Security Investment
Plans.
3.
Support African countries, their governments and organized civil society to
incorporate successful experiences from Brazil and other countries.
Meeting
between the FAO Director General, Mr. Graziano, the Former President of Brazil,
Mr. Lula and the AUC Chairperson, Dr. Zuma, held in Addis Ababa on 21 November
2012, set the official starting of the Partnership between FAO, Instituto Lula
(IL) and African Union in accelerating the fight against hunger and
malnutrition in Africa.
The
three Parties agreed that the HLM will be organized by a Joint Task Force
composed by FAO, IL, AU/DREA, NEPAD/NPCA, Government of Ethiopia and the Office
of the AUC Chairperson.
At the
2012 FAO Regional Conference for Africa, the Ministers of Agriculture and Heads
of Delegation of the Member States, together with Civil Society Organizations,
reaffirmed their commitment to the fight against hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition.
To this
effect, Instituto Lula, AU and FAO have organized a Pre-High Level Consultative
workshop from 7 to 9 May 2013 at the Africa Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia with the objective of:
• Adopt
a common agenda of concrete activities to coordinate and unify the different
ongoing initiatives aimed at overcoming the plight of African populations
suffering from hunger.
• As part of the Zero Hunger Challenge, support the creation and implementation of comprehensive food-security and social-development plans at national, sub-regional and regional scopes, jointly with the African Union, African economic communities and other African players.
• Help African countries, their governments and organized civil society to incorporate successful experiences from Brazil and other countries.
• As part of the Zero Hunger Challenge, support the creation and implementation of comprehensive food-security and social-development plans at national, sub-regional and regional scopes, jointly with the African Union, African economic communities and other African players.
• Help African countries, their governments and organized civil society to incorporate successful experiences from Brazil and other countries.
Among
others, this Pre-High level meeting will be attended by African Ministers of
Agriculture and Rural Development, UN Representatives, AU Chairperson, and
governments of Ethiopia, Brazil, China and Vietnam.
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