Policy framework relevant to the right to adequate food and disaster management
Table 3 outlines selected policies in Uganda that were considered as relevant to food and nutrition security and disaster management.
Table 3.
Policy frameworks relevant to the right to adequate food and disaster management in Uganda.
Year Relevant policy framework Targets relevant to the right to adequate food
2003 Uganda Food and Nutrition Policy • Ensure an adequate supply of, and access to, good quality food at all times in the country
• Proposed to restrict food aid to alleviating temporary food crisis and to ensure it is safe for human consumption
• Ministry responsible for Agriculture mandated to coordinate multi-sectorial implementation
2004 National Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children’s Policy • Aims to achieve the full realization of the rights of orphans and other vulnerable children
• Commit the Government to provide adequate nutritious food to households caring for orphans and other vulnerable children in emergency situations
2004 National Policy for Internally Displaced Persons • Pledges to minimize the effects of internal displacement by providing an enabling environment to uphold rights and entitlements of the displaced
• Proposes a disaster management fund and human rights promotion and protection sub-committees at national and district level
2010 National Policy for Disaster Preparedness and Management • Aims to establish institutional mechanisms and capabilities to reduce vulnerability to disasters at all levels
• Reflects a shift from disaster response to risk reduction through empowerment of communities
2010 National Development Plan 2010–2015 • Overall national policy that replaced the Poverty Eradication Action Plan
• Has identified nutrition and disaster management as areas of policy concern
2011 The Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2011–2016 • Uganda’s framework for scaling up nutrition in the first 1000 days of life
• Aims to improve the nutrition status with emphasis on women of reproductive age, infants and young children
• Among the objectives to protect households from the impact of shocks and vulnerabilities that affect their nutrition
• Mandated to coordinate nutrition transferred to Office of Prime Minister
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