Afghanistan: Feeding the Children of Afghanistan Together

According to UNICEF, 60 percent of Afghan children are stunted because of poor feeding practices and malnutrition, and 2 out of 5 are moderately to severely underweight.The UN Joint Programme Feeding the Children of Afghanistan Together is tackling the issue by promoting an integrated package of nutrition and food security interventions at the community level. It brings together health, agricultural and education activities to attack the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition, by empowering communities to use their own resources to create lasting solutions to the problem.

The programme is helping to establish the necessary policy frameworks, legislation, national capacity, coordination mechanisms and information management to support interventions at central, provincial, district and community-levels for the medium and long-term.

Its approach is based on the concept of "right to food" and builds upon the broad range of nutrition and food security initiatives carried out since the fall of the Taliban, harnessing technical expertise from FAO, UNICEF, UNIDO, WFP, and WHO.

Feeding the Children of Afghanistan Together is grounded in the MDG-F's mission to ensure that advances in development occur equitably and reach the most marginalized and excluded populations.