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Flagship Project 2025 “Strenghtening Faith-Based Partnerships for Sustainable Food Security and Community-Led Development”

This year, the taskforce “Food Security” will focus on implementing the flagship project 2025 “Strenghtening Faith-Based Partnerships for Sustainable Food Security and Community-Led Development” to increase integration into the Global Alliance to Address Hunger and Nutrition. The Project aims to promote sustainable, culturally-sensitive, and locally-driven food security interventions that address hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty through partnerships, advocacy, and the strategic engagement of faith-based actors within the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty. It also aims at increasing global cooperation and impact by improved understanding, mobilisation and engagement of the unique and essential role of faith actors in addressing hunger and nutrition.

Envisaged key results are:

1. PaRD releases a commitment to the Global Alliance to Address Hunger and Extreme Poverty.

2. Strategic Engagement of PaRD/PaRD members, multilaterals and governments in 3 countries is mobilized and documented to improve collaboration to address issues of hunger and nutrition by all actors in 3 specific contexts.

3. Global knowledge and collaboration increased through global events and increased, targetted communications that highlighting sharing lessons learned (from 2 above) to key global players as well as other organisations to inspire additional engagement in scale up of approach.

Food Security

Advocacy and action on hunger and food security

The International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development’s (PaRD) Food Security taskforce addresses the urgent hunger and food security crisis. Climate change, global health issues, conflict, including the war in Ukraine, among other factors, has exacerbated the threat of famine for food insecure communities especially for the most vulnerable in low and middle income countries.

PaRD’s extensive network fosters joint advocacy and action for urgent humanitarian action as well as just and sustainable food systems. The initiative invites collaboration between PaRD members to promote an adequate humanitarian response to alleviate hunger and prevent starvation for the 45 million people already at risk. Members can also advocate for systematic changes to build a food system that supports healthy, sustainable nutrition for communities while protecting the environment.

Joint Advocacy for Just and Sustainable Food Systems

The initiative will:

Gather stories and testimonies from people and communities which highlight how religious actors address food insecurity on the ground
Present stories and testimonies in webinars, feature articles, and engage on social media
Publish materials to raise awareness about the hunger crisis (factsheets, advocacy appeals, petitions etc.)
Support participation and representation of members of food insecure communities in key policy forums

The goals of our joint work include:

Improved humanitarian access to vulnerable communities
Commitments by relevant actors to refrain from using food as a weapon of war
Recommendations from policy forums that acknowledge and engage the role of religious leaders and communities in local, national, and global settings
Resources from local and national religious and faith communities for humanitarian purposes
Commitments by relevant actors to refrain from using food as a weapon of war

A Call to Action and Collaboration

Religious and faith-based actors are already addressing both immediate and long-term challenges related to famine, hunger, and food security on the ground. Together with PaRD members, religious and faith-based actors must raise a strong voice in the call for sustainable and equitable food systems at national, regional, and international levels to address the global food crisis.