Dr. George D. Kembo

Biography

Dr. George Kembo is the Director General of the  Food and Nutrition Council in Zimbabwe, tasked with ensuring strategic leadership towards food and nutrition security for the country. George is a livelihoods developmental practitioner whose leadership include the Development of the Zimbabwe Food and Nutrition Security Policy and its Implementation Matrix, and the development of the Zimbabwe National Multi-sectoral Food and Nutrition Strategies. He has spearheaded the role out of the Community Based Management to Food and Nutrition Insecurity and currently chairs both the Multi-sectoral Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee and Nutrition Assessment Committees in Zimbabwe.

His work includes the establishment of National, Provincial, District and Ward Food and Nutrition Security Committees (the decentralized multi-sectoral structures), and being Zimbabwe convener for the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. George is a member of the High-Level food and nutrition security committee for Zimbabwe. He is responsible for the multi-stakeholder coordination, research, livelihoods assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the food and nutrition security issues in  Zimbabwe.