Gabon
National Multisectoral Committee for Food and Nutritional Security
Gabon pairs the National Multisectoral Committee for Food and Nutritional Security presided over from the Prime Minister's Office with a multi-stakeholder platform that convenes government and non-state actors around specific activities. The platform is being relaunched after a dormant period. This institutional set up can be classed as a dual participatory mechanism.
National Multisectoral and Multi-stakeholder Steering Committee for Food and Nutrition Security
Institutional set-up and structure. Established in 2017 by the Prime Minister's Office, which presides over it, with the Minister for Agriculture as secretary and the Minister for Public Health as vice-secretary. Participation is at ministerial level.
Mandate and decision-making power. The Committee steers and guides national food and nutrition security policy. It approves the intersectoral food and nutrition security action plan transmitted to it by the multi-stakeholder platform, ensures that all sectors are involved in addressing food insecurity, develops a social communication plan for the promotion of nutrition and good practice, advocates for national mobilisation on food and nutrition, ensures multisectoral nutrition and food interventions, and organises bilateral and multilateral cooperation to mobilise the resources needed.
The Committee is tasked with the following roles (building blocks):
Agenda setting: advocacy and dialogue; deciding on goals and strategic priorities
Policy formulation and decision making: developing policies for consideration by the relevant authorities
Who is involved
Government: the Prime Minister's Office, with the ministers for agriculture and public health; forestry, fisheries and environment; national education and civic education; social and family development, social security and national solidarity; private investment promotion, trade, tourism and industry; digital economy, communication and culture; infrastructure, public works and land planning; mines, petroleum and hydrocarbons; and economy
Non-state members: representatives of civil society, producer organisations, economic operators and the private sector
How it works in practice
Approves the intersectoral action plan prepared and transmitted by the platform
Organises cooperation with bilateral and multilateral partners to mobilise resources
Participation is at ministerial level
Multisectoral and Multi-stakeholder Platform for Food and Nutrition Security (PMMSAN)
Institutional set-up and structure
Established in 2017 alongside the Committee, the platform brings state and non-state actors together around proposed activities. It does not yet hold legal status, and work is under way to establish one. Active before the pandemic, it subsequently became dormant and is now being relaunched, including a review of which members remain active.
Mandate and decision-making power
The platform coordinates and monitors implementation of the national food and nutrition policy. It supports the development of implementation tools, including a biannual intersectoral food and nutrition action plan and the key indicators for monitoring and evaluating the policy's objectives and strategies; coordinates the programming, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of that plan; studies and gives its opinion on technical and scientific questions; and produces an annual analytical report on the food and nutrition situation and on progress in implementation. Without legal status it currently operates informally.
The platform is tasked with the following roles (building blocks):
Agenda setting: advocacy and dialogue
Policy formulation and decision making: providing technical advice; coordinating policy development
Monitoring and evaluation: tracking progress, evaluating and reporting
Who is involved
Government: ministries proposing activities, including agriculture, public health, and forestry, fisheries and environment
Civil society and producers: cooperatives, producer organisations and civil society representatives
Private sector: economic operators and private sector representatives
Development partners: a United Nations agency convenes and funds the platform
How it works in practice
Members convene when a ministry proposes an activity, rather than to a fixed calendar
Proposed activities are notified to the convening partner, which circulates invitations to members
Implementation currently sits with each individual actor
Evaluation was not originally part of the platform's work; reporting obligations under the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement have introduced it
Work is under way to give the platform legal status
Evidence base: key informant interviews and policy documents, 2026. Last updated: September 2026.
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