FOOD DEFICIT MITIGATION STRATEGY (FDMS)

Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare FAMILY AND SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES

The Department of Social Development aims reduce poverty and enhance self-reliance through the provision of social protection services to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Zimbabwe..

A Govenment of Zimbabwe Strategy

The FDMS is a Government strategy of harmonising food assistance to vulnerable groups during the food deficit periods of the year.

A Framework for:

It provides the framework for synchronising food assistance programmes by all stakeholders to vulnerable groups to ensure effective targeting and efficient distribution of food assistance to the drought-affected regions and households.

    Objectives:

  • To mitigate the effects of drought on non-labour constrained households through public works/cash transfers and food-for-assets programmes
  • Avail free food assistance to labour-constrained households
  • Increase food access by non-resource constrained households through improved market distribution
  • Mitigate the impacts of future droughts through the rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes


What is FDMS? The Concept

The FDMS is a Government strategy of harmonising food assistance to vulnerable groups during the food deficit periods of the year

It provides the framework for synchronising food assistance programmes by all stakeholders to vulnerable groups to ensure effective targeting and efficient distribution of food assistance to the drought-affected regions and households





Expected results: — By the end of the Module the learner will:

Distinguish the difference between the Food Deficit Mitigation Strategy (FMDS) from programmes that fall within this strategy

List the objectives of the FDMS

Understand the rationale behind the phased cycle of FDMS interventions

Identity the food assistance programmes that fall under the realm of the FDMS

The district, ward and beneficiary targeting guidelines of the FDMS

Section one —GUIDING PRINCIPLES

    It is important to understand that:
  1. The FDMS is what it is – a strategy, not a programme
  2. The FDMS does not replace the existing food assistance programmes including: Public Works Programme; Cash-for-Assets programmes; Input Distribution Schemes; nutrition support programmes; and other lean season assistance programmes
  3. The FDMS provides a framework for their synchronisation and harmonisation
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Objectives of the FDMS

  1. To mitigate the effects of drought on non-labour constrained households through public works/cash transfers and food-for-assets programmes
  2. Avail free food assistance to labour-constrained households

  3. Increase food access by non-resource constrained households through improved market distribution
  4. Mitigate the impacts of future droughts through the rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes

Next we look at: — The four (4) phased cycle of FDMS interventions


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