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Guinea-Bissau Launches Five-Year Plan to Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition

Strategic Insights

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Guinea-Bissau, a country facing significant challenges in achieving food security, has launched a new five-year Country Strategic Plan, in collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). This plan aims to build resilience to climate change, strengthen livelihoods, and establish a social protection system that is inclusive, nutrition-sensitive, and climate shocks-responsive. According to the 2022 Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index, Guinea-Bissau is the third most vulnerable country in the world to climate change. The plan also focuses on reducing undernutrition, increasing access to education, and providing safe and nutritious food to vulnerable populations.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Country Strategic Plan has been developed in consultation with the government and other key stakeholders, and is aligned with the government's National Development Plan (2020-2023) and the national Strategy for Development, Employment, and Industrial Promotion 2020-2024.
  • The plan aims to address the key drivers of food security, which include climate shocks, and is expected to benefit an estimated 117,000 people suffering from hunger between June and August 2023, unless urgent action is taken.
  • WFP will implement integrated activities, including supporting smallholder farmers, providing nutritious food to schoolchildren, and stimulating local agricultural production.
  • The plan also focuses on reducing undernutrition, increasing access to education, and providing safe and nutritious food to vulnerable populations.
  • The Country Strategic Plan has been approved by the WFP Executive Board and came into effect in January 2023.

Statistics:

  • Guinea-Bissau is the third most vulnerable country in the world to climate change, according to the 2022 Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index.
  • An estimated 108,000 people were unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 1.7 percent increase from the same period in 2021.
  • The number of people suffering from hunger is projected to increase to 117,000 between June and August 2023 unless urgent action is taken.

Sources:

(1) Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index

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