Support to the National Food Security and Nutrition Program (Kore Lavi)

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Overview

The project directly supports the Government of Haiti’s (GOH) social protection efforts to prevent hunger and malnutrition by implementing a safety net program that builds demand and improves access for locally produced foods among vulnerable households.  Directly impacting approximately 18,150 households through the provision of food vouchers and 205,000 households through maternal and child health and nutrition interventions, the program is being implemented in five departments.  The four-year project also works with the Government of Haiti’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MAST) to establish a national household level targeting database system.  
 

Objectives 

The overall goal of the program is to reduce food insecurity and vulnerability by supporting the GOH in establishing a replicable safety net system and expanding capacities to prevent child undernutrition.  Over a four-year period, the project will:
  • Support the institutionalization, within MAST, of an equitable and effective mechanism for targeting vulnerable households; 
  • Institutionalize, within MAST, an electronic food voucher-based safety net system that: 
  • Targets the top 10 percent most vulnerable households,
  • Has the capacity to scale up nationally and to surge during food security emergencies;
  • Promotes women’s empowerment and the consumption of locally produced nutritious food;  
  • Expand knowledge and practice to prevent undernutrition in children using a food-assisted “First 1000 Days” approach;
  • Build the capacities of key GOH institutions, women, and local partners to more effectively coordinate, monitor, and support food security, disaster risk management, and social assistance programming in Haiti.

Activities 

  • Institutionalize a food security vulnerability monitoring and targeting system. 
  • Establish a food voucher-based safety net system.
  • Implement maternal child health and nutrition using the 1,000 days approach that targets pregnant and lactating women and children up to two years of age. 
  • Provide complementary services to create “graduation” opportunities for households enrolled in the food voucher program.

Anticipated Results

This project was awarded to CARE International in August 2013.  With consortium members Action Contre Le Faim (ACF) and the World Food Program (WFP), under MAST oversight, the program will reach over 300,000 households with enhanced nutrition knowledge and practices, nutritious food assistance, food vouchers to buy mostly locally- produced foods. 
 

Additional Information

Budget:  $80 million (Title II - $32 million, CDF - $48 million)
Life of Project:  2013 – 2017
Implementing Partner:  CARE International