Sustainable solutions to malnutrition in Yemen 

Our guest: Karima Al-Hada´a

In this episode, Carmel, Chris and Jeremy discuss the politics of adopting more sustainable solutions to malnutrition in Yemen with Karima Al-Hada´a. Karima is the Planning & Liaison Specialist in the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) Secretariat in Yemen, Assistant National Food Systems Convenor and a member of the global SUN Movement Executive Committee. The SUN Yemen Secretariat, within the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC), is the lead national entity responsible for coordinating all investments and actions for nutrition across sectors, throughout the country. Karima discusses the opportunities and challenges of scaling up development actions to prevent malnutrition and strengthening public systems, alongside humanitarian assistance. For background information on issues discussed, please see the episode notes below. Please visit the Podcast page on the N4D website and share your comments, ideas and experiences. Please join the debate! 

Reading list: 

You can find information and analysis on the political situation in Yemen here: https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/gulf-and-arabian-peninsula/yemen

Find out more about N4D´s work in Yemen: https://www.n4d.group/yemen/ 

You can also find a link to the Yemen Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan on that page. 

We recommend reading the Chatham House paper, on aid strategies in ´politically estranged´ settings, mentioned by Chris at the end of the podcast: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/04/aid-strategies-politically-estranged-settings 

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Recorded edited and published by: N4D & Nutriat.co

Theme tune: Saraweto, used with kind permission of Just East of Jazz

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