On 7 October 2013, the Republic of Congo joined the SUN Movement with a letter of commitment from HE Firmin Ayessa, the Minister of State and Director of the office of the President. At the time, Congo Brazzaville had committed to prevent and reduce malnutrition though the 63rd World Health Assembly Resolution on Infant and Young Child Nutrition.
On 11 April 2017, a national ad-hoc committee to combat malnutrition was established centrally, by memorandum, while awaiting a revision of the decree establishing a National Council to Combat Malnutrition (CNLM). The new committee groups together nutrition focal points identified within the Presidency, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Senate and National Assembly, sectoral ministries and UN agencies. It is coordinated by the SUN focal point, the Minister and Secretary-General of the Presidency. It will be possible to incorporate the multi-stakeholder platform that exists within the context of the food and nutritional security component of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework into this committee. Additionally, improved participation of the private sector, civil society and donors will not begin until after the CNLM has been established.
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Although the multi-sectoral and multi-player platform is not yet formally in place, the strategic framework for the fight against malnutrition – for 2025 – provides for the creation of a National Council for the Fight against Malnutrition, which would have its own technical secretariat. The decree establishing the responsibilities, organisation and operation of this institution was finalised at the end of May 2015, after discussions with the various government sectors and other partners in a workshop. Work will now begin to have it officially adopted and promulgated.
Civil society, donors and United Nations agencies are supporting the SUN Movement processes and a joint planning unit is already in place, bringing together civil society, the government and United Nations agencies. Participation of the private sector in discussions needs to be improved. It is envisaged to create other networks able to support the government network.
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There are pro-nutrition legislation and sectoral strategies, however, these are not always followed up with the implementing regulations or the publicity necessary for them to be effective. There will be further analysis of existing legislation in 2017, through a diagnostic study of the national nutrition situation. The Brazzaville Declaration and its roadmap were adopted by Central African states in November 2016, during a sub-regional workshop (organised jointly by the Congo and UNICEF) on repositioning nutrition as a factor of development in Central Africa.
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Analysis of sectoral policies on nutrition and food has begun, thanks to completion of the ‘initial assessment’, proposed by the SUN Movement Secretariat when the Republic of Congo joined. Nevertheless this work is worth pursuing. The national policy for social action and the national agricultural and nutritional investment programme – which are still in the process of being created – incorporate various aspects relating to nutrition.
The workshop of May 2015 made it possible to collectively validate the strategic framework for the fight against malnutrition and identify the key strategic pillars for priority implementation. These involve: strengthening the institutional, normative and legislative framework of the fight against malnutrition; extending the scope of direct interventions favorable to nutrition; implementing an operational communication system for development; improving the food security of households as well as capacity building in nutrition actions and research. This framework was then disseminated among the 18 ministries concerned.
Last updated: October 2015
The Strategic Framework to Combat Malnutrition by 2025, along with its 2016-2018 operational plan (which also has a monitoring and evaluation framework), was validated in 2016. Some activities are already being implemented but the start-up difficulties encountered by other programmes can be explained by the delayed start-up of CNLM activities. An evaluation of plan implementation is scheduled for 2017, to assess the situation and form a three-year roadmap. An online portal documenting UN support to the SUN Movement was launched in 2017; an information system for gathering and analysing nutrition data needs to be put in place promptly, as this will enable support for plan implementation and stakeholder alignment.
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Estimated costings for the 2016-2018 operational plan are in place but have not been followed up with a strategy for mobilising the necessary resources. There is ongoing advocacy work aimed at increasing the nutrition budgets of the sectoral ministries, based largely on the results of a workshop to examine the level of mainstreaming of nutrition into the State budget. This workshop commenced on 7 July 2016 (using the SUN methodology).
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