DIASSO Dieudonné^1,, TRAORE Sy Martial², MASSAOUD Williams³

The Regional Organizations in West Africa had jointly lunched a regional Project to Improve the Governance of Resilience and Food Security and Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture. The objective of the study was to understand the extent to which nutrition is taken into account in National Agricultural, Food Security and Nutrition Investment Plan of The Gambia, Guinea and Togo, and to identify challenges for future revision and implementation. The methodology used the Compendium of Key Nutrition Actions of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, and the mean core tools used to collect, store, code and analyze data was policy and plan overview from the United Nation Network. The findings revealed that nutrition is not an entire priority axis, it’s combined with food security, resilience and social protection. On the total of 32 key actions used to assess, 26 was considered as relevant for Togo, and 23 respectively for Guinea and The Gambia. There was a variation of key actions considered as relevant between country plans, and in total 66% (21/32) common priority actions were identified. The analyses show a significative funding gap estimated, around 40% for The Gambia, 44.4% for Guinea, and 90.83% for Togo, and none of the country didn’t clearly develop a detailed fund mobilization strategy. The nutrition integration tools is considered as a need for all country. The study helped to highlight opportunities to improve country plans in future revision, and could orient the elaboration of the next Economic Community of West African States nutrition agenda to be more nutrition-sensitive.

The Gambia, Guinea, Togo, PNIASAN, nutrition integration, policy and plan overview