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Stakeholders

Ministries, agencies, organisations and decentralised services working for food security and nutrition, with their intervention sites.

20 actors

  • Other

    World Bank

    The World Bank supports the Merankabandi II Productive Safety Nets and Jobs Project, which provides crisis response cash transfers...

    • Social protection

    5 sites 5 provinces

  • Non-governmental organisation

    Caritas Burundi

    National charitable network. The 2023 mapping of nutrition stakeholders lists it among the implementers of cash or food social tra...

    • Food security
    • Social protection
    • Education

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  • Non-governmental organisation

    Burundi Red Cross

    National Red Cross Society. The 2023 mapping of nutrition stakeholders lists it among the implementers of the distribution of micr...

    • Nutrition
    • Social protection

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  • United Nations agency

    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

    UN Women ensures that the specific needs of women and girls are taken into account in food security and nutrition, and tracks data...

    • Nutrition
    • Food security
    • Social protection

    2 sites 2 provinces

  • Other

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network

    Early warning network that publishes food security outlooks and monthly updates for Burundi, by livelihood zone. It is one of the...

    • Food security

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  • United Nations agency

    United Nations Children's Fund

    UNICEF supports the prevention, screening and treatment of malnutrition among children, adolescents and women, particularly during...

    • Nutrition
    • Health
    • WASH
    • Education
    • Social protection

    1 site 1 province

  • United Nations agency

    International Fund for Agricultural Development

    IFAD helps reduce poverty and fragility among rural populations by providing financial and technical support to the Government in...

    • Food security
    • Nutrition
    • Social protection

    5 sites 5 provinces

  • Other

    Institute of Agronomic Sciences of Burundi

    Public agricultural research institute under the supervision of the ministry in charge of agriculture. It is one of the institutio...

    • Food security

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  • Other

    Geographic Institute of Burundi

    Public institute responsible in particular for hydrometeorological and climate services. It is one of the institutions that took p...

    • Food security

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  • Other

    National Institute of Statistics of Burundi

    National statistics institute, which publishes the statistical yearbook of Burundi and monitors the Sustainable Development Goal i...

    • Nutrition
    • Health
    • Food security
    • Education
    • Social protection

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  • Ministry

    Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research

    Ministry in charge of pre-school, basic and post-basic education. Its Education Planning and Statistics Office publishes the educa...

    • Education

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  • Ministry

    Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock

    Ministry in charge of agriculture, livestock and the environment. Twice a year, together with WFP, it conducts the food security m...

    • Food security

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  • Ministry

    Ministry of Water, Energy and Mines

    Ministry in charge of drinking water and basic sanitation. The 2023 mapping of nutrition stakeholders lists it among the ministrie...

    • WASH

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  • Ministry

    Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS

    Ministry responsible for the treatment of malnutrition in health facilities and for nutrition surveillance, through the National I...

    • Nutrition
    • Health

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  • Ministry

    Ministry of National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender

    Ministry in charge of social assistance, health insurance for the indigent and cash transfers to vulnerable households. Its statis...

    • Social protection

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  • United Nations agency

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

    FAO supports the Government of Burundi in the fight against food insecurity and malnutrition by strengthening sustainable, inclusi...

    • Food security
    • Nutrition
    • Social protection

    1 site 1 province

  • United Nations agency

    World Health Organization

    WHO is among the partners that fund or support key nutrition actions, in particular vitamin A supplementation and deworming, accor...

    • Health
    • Nutrition

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  • United Nations agency

    World Food Programme

    WFP conducts the food security monitoring survey (FSMS) with the ministry in charge of agriculture, publishes monthly mVAM market...

    • Food security
    • Nutrition
    • Education
    • Social protection

    1 site 1 province

  • Other

    Permanent Executive Secretariat of the Multisectoral Food Security and Nutrition Platform

    Technical arm of the Multisectoral Food Security and Nutrition Platform (PMSAN), established by Decree No. 100/068 of 13 April 201...

    • Nutrition
    • Health
    • WASH
    • Food security
    • Education
    • Social protection

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  • Non-governmental organisation

    World Vision Burundi

    International non-governmental organization. The 2023 mapping of nutrition stakeholders lists it among the implementers of infant...

    • Nutrition
    • Food security
    • Education

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