Areas of Competence
The following are the Alliance’s areas of competence
- Coordinating direct assistance activities such as:
- - Food for work and school feeding programmes
- - Programmes to fight vulnerability of communities through livelihood diversification and improved access to resources.
- - Community nutrition assistance to combat micronutrient deficiencies.
- - Improvement of water and rangeland management for smallholders and nomadic pastoralist.
- - Empowerment of rural poor, especially women, the landless, indigenous people and the disabled through local project.
- Building capacity through training and support for policy and programme development and implementation
- Raising awareness of the need to focus on the poor and hungry through targeted lobbying, participation at major events, used of media etc
- Expressing the aspirations of the poor and hungry and engaging them as full partners in the search, finding and implementing solutions that make a real difference to their lives and the lives of generations to come
- Facilitating dialogue regarding the most effective measures to reduce hunger. To promote mutually supportive action involving civil society, government and other stakeholders in the fight against hunger and poverty
- Advocating for increase political commitment for mobilizing more resources and enhancing direct access to food by the most needy
- Monitor hunger through support to national hunger observation centres, national food security reports and the identification of best practices in agriculture and market businesses. Data collection via surveys, village meetings and home visits.