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The main focus is on exploring game-changing solutions which will be collected and developed through the three work streams of the AT1 and tailored to local contexts, including cultural, social and economic aspects, the specific political economy of food, how food systems function, the existence and level of implementation of policies and regulations, institutional capacities and constraints on the ability of consumers on changing what they eat. The problem to be addressed: Translating solutions into collaborative actions to support the resilience of food systems in Yemen with focus on:  Fo... Read morestering investment in holistic food systems approaches that address the prosperity of people and the environment in Yemen;  Addressing inequalities – structural, social and gender – in access to and use of resources, knowledge, assets, technology and markets/value chains;  Strengthen the capacity and resources of farmers, women, youth and micro, small and medium enterprises to effectively participate along the entire food system from production to consumption, providing them with the tools, techniques and advisory services needed to enhance their engagement with the private sector;  Managing risk and security at all levels - the individual, society, government and systems;  Coordinating policies, programs and investments (including aid) among all stakeholders, with governments at the fore;  Explore blended finance and public-private partnerships (PPP) to mobilize funding for under-resourced initiatives to bring about positive change in food systems;  Enabling systems to mitigate instability, shocks and stresses;  Develop monitoring and evaluation systems to monitor, measure and evaluate interventions;  Identify harmful agricultural practices such as excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and excessive irrigation that contribute to soil degradation, soil alkalinity and erosion and threaten sustainable food systems. Read less

•The fisheries Sector in Yemen is a promising sector that can be relied upon to contribute to the revival of the national economy, enhancing food security and raising the level of nutrition in Yemen. •The government is seeking to implement a package of priorities to increase local production and ensure sustainable livelihoods for fishermen and coastal communities that enable them to recover and be more resilient to resist future economic shocks. •Social Protection Sector pursues policies aimed at integrating a range of nutrition-sensitive programs: enhancing healthy diet practices; •Re... Read moreview social protection mechanisms is required in Yemen; •To expand the scope of nutrition in schools by expanding the provision of school meals in addition to distributing biscuits to students and providing nutritional supplements for adolescent girls. •To rehabilitate health facilities in schools, providing safe water and a healthy environment to limit the spread of diseases. •Increase agricultural growth rates to achieve food and nutritional security; •Combat poverty through increasing the local production of food commodities for consumption and marketing; •Ensure sustainable livelihoods for farmers, Fishermen and rural and coastal communities with a focus on women; •Improve and diversify sources of nutrition, increase dependency on natural micronutrients, access to food, and improve the relationship between consumers and food sources; •Reduce food waste and loss and promote Circular Food Systems for regenerative production. •Sustainable funding for sustainable development in Yemen should be explored by donors and partners; •Review the current funding mechanisms and explore options for improving the government entities’ capacities; •Exploring the local innovative financing resources; •Expand/explore partnerships with financial instruments and mechanisms. More focus on: •Funding and financing green and circular economy solutions •Financing for Development •Regional initiatives This FSDs on AT1 was the finalization of events in Yemen. The participants expressed their great admiration for the organization of the event and its unique management style. They also emphasized that they benefited greatly from all the discussions that took place, which represented a source for renewing their ideas and working mechanisms. They stressed that their role will be pivotal in adopting the outputs in their sectors, supporting their implementation, promoting and introducing them to their decision makers. The facilitators in the working groups ensured to allow everyone to come up with ideas and consensus around solutions. After extensive discussion and brainstorming during the plenary session, everyone expressed their views, fears and hopes. The dialogues were a free space for all that resulted in solutions that represent top priorities for the transition towards healthy, safe and sustainable food systems. It is worth noting that the organization of events was in coordination and active participation of the coordinating bodies in the government that have the highest influence on national policies, and they were involved for the purpose of supporting the implementation of the outputs and enhancing ownership of the outputs among all participating parties. Read less

Priority topic: Expanding social protection - National Task-force on Social Protection Mechanisms and Zero Hunger - National Task-force on Subsidized brown Bread Priority topic: Expanding the scale and quality of agricultural and fishery products - National Task-force to achieve food self-sufficiency - National Task-force to Increase Domestic Agricultural Production - National Task-force to Support the Agricultural and Fisheries Investment Environment - National Task-force for Government Support to Fishermen - National Task-force to Support Aquaculture/Aquaponic Priority Theme: Sustainable fin... Read moreancing for comprehensive and sustainable development - National Task-force to Ensure Sustainable Financing Mechanisms for Comprehensive Development Read less

The many competing priorities in the country and the weakness of public services in all sectors led to attempts to present each sector as a top priority. However, managing events ensures that all sectors are presented with their importance, as well as finding points of contact between sectors where everyone can work and complete to achieve common goals. However, there is consensus on the importance of reaching vulnerable people first as a top priority, followed by supporting policies that ensure the sustainability of interventions.

Introduce the Food Systems Dialogues (FSDs) and N4G Summit and what is expected from the participant countries; explain the AT5’s vision, objectives and direction, and enable national government and stakeholders from the private sector and civil society to engage in the issues of constructing sustainable and resilient food systems in the coming decade. • Introduction to the Food System Dialogues, the Track Action 5; • Generate a menu of game-changing solutions; • A systemic and nexus approach (multi-system, multi sectoral, multilevel, and multi-stakeholder); • A twin-track approach l... Read moreinking emergency response to sustainable development by leveraging the humanitarian-development-peace nexus; • Local and national ownership and political leadership with context-specific approach; • Strong and robust local food systems; with transformative innovations. • Sensitize government, private sector, CSOs, and other actors to take action in line with such solutions; and • Public advocacy tools to create a national movement for the outcomes of the AT5. Read less

- Rehabilitating/building national systems, by strengthening infrastructure, information, communication, coordination and learning; - Eradicating hunger in Yemen is possible if the local resources invested; - Raising the demand for healthy and nutritious food, and changing behavior and practices that promote healthy diet; - Promoting access to nutritious and healthy food, especially for the most vulnerable groups such as women (mothers and adolescents), children and the elderly; - Promoting food safety, along the value chains of food systems (from seed to fork); - Increasing the agricultural a... Read morend fisheries investments: focus on improving the accessability and availability and reducing food insecurity; - Empowering the most vulnerable (women and children): demonstrating the long-term impact of improving women’s and children’s health, education, and participation in the economy and society; - The resilience of food systems in the face of crises; - Promoting effective integration and coordination through Strategic Development Partnerships between government, local communities and international partners; - Sustainable funding mechanisms from local and innovative resources. Read less

Priority topic : Expanding social protection: - National Task-force on Domestic Food Industries; - National Task-force on Home Economics (family and consumer Sciences); Priority topic: Expanding the scale and quality of agricultural and fishery products: - National Task-force for the Protection from Qat’s Effects; - National Water and Environment Task-force; - National Task-force on Innovation for Food; Priority Theme: Building strategic collaboration and partnerships across sectors and multiple stakeholders: - Food Policies Dialogue Forums; Priority Theme: Scaling up the National Readiness ... Read morefor Positive Transformations and Responding to Emergencies and Shocks: - Task-force on Building National Capacity to Respond to Emergencies and Shocks; Priority Theme: Sustainable financing for comprehensive and sustainable development: - National Task-force to Ensure Sustainable Financing Mechanisms for Comprehensive Development; Read less

The many competing priorities in the country and the weakness of public services in all sectors led to attempts to present each sector as a top priority. However, managing events ensures that all sectors are presented with their importance, as well as finding points of contact between sectors where everyone can work and complete to achieve common goals. However, there is consensus on the importance of reaching vulnerable people first and as a top priority, followed by supporting policies that ensure the sustainability of interventions.

The areas of divergence were:  The fragmented actions by the national NGOs, international actors and UN agencies in the country;  The lack of coordination and communication between the international actors and UN agencies with the governmental institutions;  The impact of the war and political conflict on the public institutions’ capabilities and so the weak capacities of the public (government) institutions;  The weak political commitments toward the sustainable and strategic interventions, policies and programs in the country;  The gap between the political and technical lev... Read moreels within the public institutions (gap in the political will, commitment and knowledge);  The lack of funds for the priority interventions. Read less

The national dialogues focused on: (i) a comprehensive exploration of food systems, (ii) then an exploration of the Action Track 5 (iii) examination of links between all the Action Tracks.

The problem to be addressed: Translating the solutions into collaborative actions to support the resilience of food systems with focus on: Strengthen the capacity and resources of national systems to be able to monitor and assess the shocks and fragilities, and strengthen their resilience, including the resilience of farmers, women, youth and micro, small and medium enterprises to effectively participate along the entire food system from production to consumption, providing them with tools, techniques and advisory services needed to enhance their engagement with the private sector; managing ri... Read moresk and security at all levels - the individual, society, government, and systems; coordinating policies, programs and investments (including aid) among all stakeholders, with governments at the fore; explore blended finance and public-private partnerships (PPP) to mobilize funding for under-resourced initiatives to bring about positive change in food systems; develop monitoring and evaluation systems to monitor, measure and evaluate interventions; identify harmful agricultural practices such as excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and excessive irrigation that contribute to soil degradation, soil alkalinity and erosion and threaten sustainable food systems as well as identify harmful marines practices. Read less

Thematic Priority: Building strategic collaboration and partnerships across sectors and multi-stakeholders Food Policy Dialogue Forums (Food Security Secretariat) Thematic Priority: Scaling up the national readiness for food systems’ positive transformations and responding to emergencies and shocks. The National Working Group to Build National Capacities to Respond to Emergencies and Shocks.

The national dialogues focused on: (i) a comprehensive exploration of food systems, (ii) than an exploration of the Action Track 1 (iii) examination of links between all the Action Tracks.

the dialogues identified a number of priority themes that, when acted upon, will constitute a transformative path towards a sustainable, resilient and equitable food system. The priority thematic areas that emerged from the national dialogues in Yemen took the form of a group of Working Groups that the participants in the national dialogues agreed on the need to establish as mechanisms for advocacy, follow-up, and implementation. The main focus was to find mechanisms that enable actors to reach out to the most vulnerable groups. In Yemen, the humanitarian crisis is at its highest level. So, th... Read moree participants were eager to help people directly with less focus on policies. For this purpose, the participants focused on tracking the most impactful interventions to help people. They agreed that the recent focus should be on creating working groups to start working on the main issues that have a great impact on people. Eventually, around 15 working groups (national coalitions) were suggested. The focus was more on the agriculture and fisheries interventions. Therefore issues like promoting food safety, along the value chains of food systems (from seed to fork); supporting national public policies and strategies to strengthen food control and interventions (from production to consumption); promoting effective integration and coordination through strategic partnerships between government, local communities and international partners to build sustainable food systems; were the main discussion areas. The national Working Groups represent a nucleus for global and regional communication and partnerships with similar and related Working Groups at the regional and global levels. These national Working Groups are the result of an urgent need at the national level; it is also an extension of international efforts to achieve sustainable development goals. These Working Groups focus on targeting the following core areas: (i) agricultural and fisheries investments: focus on improving access and availability and reducing food insecurity; (ii) economic development: focus on increasing investment and productivity while taking advantage of diversified sources of funding; (iii) empowering the most vulnerable (women and children): (iv) Strategic Development Partnerships: transparent policies, government effectiveness, and effective partnerships between multiple sectors, public and private, community and international partners in infrastructure development; (5) human capacities: addressing human development, particularly population health and education; and (6) quality: food safety from seed to table. Read less

The participants focused on establishing these national working groups; Thematic Priority: Expanding social protection  National of Social Protection Mechanisms and Zero Hunger;  Government-subsidized bread Working Group; Thematic Priority: Expanding/Increasing the quantity and quality of agricultural and fishery products  The Supreme Council for achieving food self-sufficiency;  National Working Group to Increase Domestic Agricultural Production;  National Working Group to support the agricultural and fisheries investment environment;  National Working Group of Governmental ... Read moreSupport for the Fishermen;  National Working Group to Support Integrative Agriculture (Aquaculture). Read less

The areas of divergence were:  The fragmented actions by the national NGOs, international actors and UN agencies in the country;  The lack of coordination and communication between the international actors and UN agencies with the governmental institutions;  The impact of the war and political conflict on the public institutions’ capabilities and so the weak capacities of the public (government) institutions;  The weak political commitments towards the sustainable and strategic interventions, policies and programs in the country;  The gap between the political and technical le... Read morevels within the public institutions (gap in the political will, commitment and knowledge);  The lack of fund for the priority interventions. Read less

The national dialogues focused on: (i) a comprehensive exploration of food systems, (ii) than an exploration of the Action Track 2 (iii) examination of links between all the Action Tracks.

The AT2 is more focused on a healthy diet and healthy and safe food and environment. So, with regard to public health, the technicians stress the need to expand the scope of the provision of a healthy diet in the health sector to include all vulnerable groups by strengthening nutrition interventions in hospitals and supervision of kitchens in hospitals; As well as providing therapeutic and tube feeding and nutritional supplements to patients as well as building the capacity of the health staff to link nutrition with therapeutic protocols. Also, they reiterated the need to strengthen food safet... Read morey interventions, control children's food, and promote environmental health interventions. On the other hand, the focus was on school-age children and the importance of school meals and the awareness-raising on a healthy diet. The dialogues focused on the following axes: building national systems, by strengthening infrastructure, information, communication, coordination and learning; eradicating hunger in Yemen; promoting access to nutritious and healthy food, especially for the most vulnerable groups such as women (mothers and adolescents), children and the elderly and demonstrating the long-term impact of improving women’s and children’s health, education, and participation in the economy and society; promoting food safety, as well as raising the demand for healthy and nutritious food, and changing behavior and practices that promote healthy nutrition. Therefore, they suggested the following national working groups, to launch these interventions. Thematic Priority: Providing lifelong nutrition, health education and awareness raising  School Meals Working Group;  Hospital Nutrition Working Group;  The Higher National Committee for Awareness of Healthy Nutrition;  National Working Group for Children Food. Read less

The participants suggested the following national working groups, to launch these interventions. Thematic Priority: Providing lifelong nutrition, health education and awareness-raising  School Meals Working Group;  Hospital Nutrition Working Group;  The Higher National Committee for Awareness of Healthy Nutrition;  National Working Group for Children Food; Thematic Priority: Ensuring food safety from a multi-sectoral perspective  National Working Group to Monitor the Use and Impact of Agricultural Pesticides;  The National Committee for Regulating Food Safety.

The areas of divergence were:  The fragmented actions by the national NGOs, international actors and UN agencies in the country;  The lack of coordination and communication between the international actors and UN agencies with the governmental institutions;  The impact of the war and political conflict on the public institutions’ capabilities and so the weak capacities of the public (government) institutions;  The weak political commitments toward the sustainable and strategic interventions, policies and programs in the country;  The gap between the political and technical lev... Read moreels within the public institutions (gap in the political will, commitment and knowledge);  The lack of fund for the priority interventions. Read less