The following is a list of all conten labeled as "Food Security & Agriculture"
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) commissioned a Mid-Term Review (MTR) in November 2016 supported by the Swaziland UN Country Office focusing primarily on the period beginning from the National Emergency Response Mitigation and Adaptation Plan (NERMAP) launch (February 2016) to December 2016.
The 2015/2016 El Niño induced drought was the worst the country has experienced in over thirty-five years. In 2016, the National Emergency Response Mitigation and Adaptation Plan (NERMAP) 2016-2022 was developed and implemented with success during the response phase of the first year.
The 2019 Eswatini Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis was carried out between May and June 2019 with a view to provide information on the state of livelihoods and vulnerability with a particular emphasis on the rural areas of the country.
The Eswatini Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Eswatini VAC) conducted the annual assessment in an effort to understand the level of vulnerability at household level countrywide over the 2018/19 consumption period.
The Annual assessment’s objectives were to understand the status of livelihood sources in the rural and urban areas, thus to determine levels of food insecurity amongst populations, estimating vulnerable populations facing food insecurity and establish forms of coping mechanisms adopted during periods of food insecurity.
The purpose of the 2015 Annual Assessment was to assess the status of livelihoods and vulnerability in rural households and provide timely information for programming and decision-making.
The Master Plan for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters is part of the strategy to fight poverty and, as so, of the govermnment's five-year programme, which recognizes that natural calamities and their negative impacts aggravate poverty. As so, the government defined, in its programme, the following objectives:
The National Strategy for Risk and Disaster Management (SNGRC in french) is a strategic instrument with national scope, applicable during the period 2016-2030, which has for vision a nation resilient to shocks, protected from all damage, in its social and cultural dimension, economic and environmental for sustainable development.
The document outline standard operating procedures, integrating the context specificity of Namibia, and provides a practical understanding of its application. The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) has been developed to serve as a guiding tool for national authorities and partners in the immediate response phase where assistance is been provided based on scope of the emergency.
This National Strategy and Action Plan lays out the guiding principles responsive to climate change that are effective, efficient and practical. It further identifies priority action areas for adaptation and mitigation. Namibia is ready to learn from and adopt best practices from other parts of the world in dealing with issues of climate change.