Update with the Managing DirectorApril 16, 2012

Overview/Agenda

• I. Overview of SecureNutrition Knowledge Platform

• II. Multisectoral Guidance on Integrating Nutrition into Agriculture Investments

• III. Summary and Key Messages from workshop on Food Security and Nutrition: From Measurement to Results

I. Overview of SecureNutrition Knowledge Platform

Rationale for SecureNutrition:Poverty is declining but undernutrition still lingers

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Poverty (<$1.25/day, 2005 PPP) Hunger (<min.energy requirement) Underweight children (under 5 y.o.)

Source: FAO and Povcal Net.

The KP’s niche in an already populated universe of knowledge and technical fora is three-fold:1. Focus on operational knowledge generation

o Analytic work addressing operational concerns

2. Critical role as consolidator linking results of ongoing efforts and building consensus based on available evidence, knowledge, and experiences

3. Major emphasis on internal Bank audience

What is the value-added of SecureNutrition?

Priority Outcomes and Deliverables (1): New knowledge products to strengthen operational approaches

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Agriculture, Food Security

Multisectoral Approaches to Nutrition: Guidance Briefs for Bank TTLs in Agriculture, Social Protection and Health

Priority Outcomes and Deliverables (2):Knowledge products to measure food security & nutrition outcomes

22 March 2012 World Bank WorkshopFood Security and Nutrition: From Measurement to Results

Priority Outcomes and Deliverables (3, 4): Partner Consultations and Community of Practice

Priority Outcomes and Deliverables (5): Launch of the KP website

Priority Outcomes and Deliverables (6, 7):Win-Win Linkages between Ag/FS/N are standard in the Bank

• Innovative grants program– FY12 Explore multi-media documentation of TTL

and country experiences with multisectoral approaches to improved nutrition outcomes

– FY13-14 Small grants for learning to TTLs in Ag & FS sectors/programs

• Seminar Series– Learning events for internal Bank audiences, open

to external as well

Lessons learned

• Face-to-face interaction/consultation is essential – process takes time.

• Significant IT challenges –contradictions in meeting both internal and external requirements.

• Major challenge of the KP is attracting involvement of the internal regional Bank audience – lack of incentive for busy TTLs

II. Multisectoral Guidance on Integrating Nutrition into Agriculture Investments

Knowledge Product: “Addressing Nutrition through Multisectoral Approaches”

• One of SecureNutrion’s “internal audience” products (FY12 delivery)

• Developed by a multisectoral Bank team led by HDN • Objective: To provide operational guidance to Bank TTLs,

development partners, and country level implementers on designing a “nutrition sensitive” sector project

• Co-funded by: RSR TF, Japan SUN TF, and DfID• Consultation: TTLs and development partners (DfID, BMGF)

(London, Dec. 2011)

Multisectoral Approaches to Nutrition: Guidance Briefs for Bank TTLs in Agriculture, Social Protection and Health

Why Does Agriculture Matter for Nutrition and vice versa?

Ag. matters for Nutrition because…• The most affected by undernutrition are

the rural poor• Ag.-led growth is proven to be twice as

much pro-poor as non-ag. led growth • Agriculture directly addresses food

production and consumption• We need to avoid unintentional negative

consequences (e.g. water-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases, women’s time)

Nutrition matters for Ag. because…• Agriculture is ultimately concerned

with improved well-being of the rural poor --- and nutrition is part of this.

• Nutrition improves human capital and labor productivity of farmers

• Successful nutrition interventions heavily involve women, so it would reinforce agriculture’s focus on gender inclusion

FOOD

Guidance on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

1. Invest in women

2. Access to high nutrient content food

3. Enhance dietary

diversity

4. Incorporate explicit nutrition objectives

and indicators

I. Raising Ag. Productivity

NUTRITION-SENSTIVE GOALS

• Biofortification• Incorporate nutrition in ag. innovation systems

(e.g. extension)• Time saving technologies

II. Linking farmers to markets• Fruits, vegetables, fish, livestock• Indigenous food knowledge systems• Post-harvest food fortification

III. Reducing risk and vulnerability • Backyard gardens

Possible “nutrition sensitive” activities to be incorporated into ARD projects

II. Summary and Key Messages from Workshop on Food Security and Nutrition: From Measurement to

Results

22 March 2012 World Bank WorkshopFood Security and Nutrition: From Measurement to Results

22 March 2012 World Bank WorkshopFood Security and Nutrition: From Measurement to Results

• Featured a line-up of experts from outside and inside the Bank,

• Objectives: – Short-run: Improve operations through greater

familiarity with experience with a variety of indicators to measure food security and nutrition outcomes.

– Longer-run: help generate greater consensus on the metrics for food security and its relation to nutritional outcomes.

Speakers

Indices Covered

• Household Hunger Scale• Dietary Diversity Score• Food Consumption Score• Coping Strategies Index• The correlation of different food and nutrition

security indices with nutritional outcomes • Implications at the project level – Round Table

discussion

Follow-up to Workshop

• Work commissioned to DECRG on developing guidelines for collecting short module of consumption– Opportunity to strengthen the collaboration with

UNICEF and rely on the active participation of their MICS team in operationalizing some of findings into the upcoming wave of MICS surveys.

– UNICEF considering possibility of adding consumption modules to the 100+ MICS surveys opportunity to have data on both nutrition and poverty/welfare.

Next Steps

• Ongoing seminar series• Dissemination of guidance briefs• Interactive website launch: May 2012• Innovation grants to TTLs: FY13-14• Begin series of regional consultations

in lead-up to global meeting: Early 2013

Thank you