The 2014-2019 National Strategic Plan for Food Security and Nutrition, which provides for the eradication of all forms of undernutrition in the country, is El Salvador’s common results framework in FSN. Various government sectors were involved in drafting it and recently updating it, as well as numerous stakeholders from academia, international cooperation initiatives, NGOs and civil society organisations.
With the objective of facilitating the implementation of the Departmental FSN Plan and the Municipal FSN Plans, Chalatenango became the first department in the country to define a departmental intersectoral FSN plan in line with the objectives of the National Plan and to set up a Committee. This commitment led to the signing of a cooperation agreement between institutions at the national level (CONASAN), the departmental level (CODESAN) and the municipal level (COMUSAN). A further 12 municipal governments are forming FSN Committees.
Given the need to speed up the progress of the implementation of the Plan, CONASAN has launched a decentralised programme to enhance functional capacities and knowledge on the analysis and management of FSN indicators, in coordination with private universities. Likewise, in coordination with FAO, civil servants have been given further training on the right to an adequate diet.
Last updated: October 2015
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