Joint Declaration
1. The Ministries of Health of Angola, Bolivia, and Brazil and the Technical
Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security of the Ministry of Agriculture of
Mozambique;
2. Driven by their willingness to strengthen existing friendships and
solidarity between these respective countries and peoples;
3. Determined to develop and deepen the relationships of cooperation; and
reaffirming their commitment to the objectives and principles of the Founding
Charter of the United Nations;
Declare:
4. The importance of the Case Studies presented at the 32nd Session of the
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN), analyzing nutrition
strategies in national development plans in the context of the realization of
the Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals;
5. Their agreement to prioritize actions to promote nutrition that ensure
multisectoral interventions to address nutrition problems and illnesses related
to food and nutrition, be it for lack of food or for excess or inadequate
consumption;
6. The necessity to implement, based on the results of the Case Studies
presented during the 32nd Session of the SCN, multisectoral proposals capable of
guiding healthy food and nutrition actions, which have an integrated approach
and take into consideration local realities in line with the public and social
policies of the respective countries;
7. To mutually help each other in the training of human resources in food and
nutrition within the context of the Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition;
food and nutrition security and the promotion of healthy food practices,
including nutrition through out the life-cycle, clinical nutrition and
dietetics;
8. Begin efforts to encourage the exchange and continuing education of
nutrition professionals (graduate and post-graduate) in public universities and
present successful experiences carried-out by collaborators in food and
nutrition and Non-Governmental Organizations;
9. To support the elaboration of strategies and methods to incorporate
nutrition in programmes and actions directed towards the treatment of people
living with HIV/AIDS;
10. Agree to the mutual exchange of related experiences and strategies to
overcome hunger and poverty for population groups at risk of nutrition problems;
11. To support the promotion of defining communication strategies, the
participation and mobilization of civil society in the context of the Human
Right to the Adequate Food;
12. Begin efforts and begin to work with respective governments to ensure the
continuity of this process; and
13. To propose, as soon as possible, the elaboration of respective plans of
action (multi- and/or bilateral) for the execution, monitoring and evaluation of
the proposed actions as part of the policies of each country.
To accomplish the objectives of this Joint Declaration, the Representatives
of the Ministries of Health from Angola, Brazil and Bolivia and the Technical
Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security of the Ministry of Agriculture of
Mozambique, request from the United Nations System SCN, and the agencies of the
United Nations, in particular UNICEF and WHO, all the necessary support.
Originally signed in Brasilia on the 18th of March 2005.
Click here for the original signed document in
Portuguese.
Adelaide de Carvalho
National Director of Public Health
Ministry of Health - Angola
Jackeline Reyes
Director of Health Services
Ministry of Health and Sports - Bolivia
Washington Luiz Hisses Couto
Secretary of Attention to Health
Ministry of Health - Brazil
Marcela Libombo
National Coordinator of the Secretariat
Technician of Food and Nutrition
Security Ministry of Agriculture - Mozambique
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