FAO organises workshop on food security information in Yemen

A workshop to assess the capacities of organizations and bodies concerned with food security information started in Sana'a on Monday. The two-day workshop organized by FAO Food Security Information System (FSIS) development programme discusses several papers on the methodology for assessing capacities, principles of capacity development, food security information networks and evaluation and survey process of Yemen's food security information system. FSIS is a three-year programme to be carried out in cooperation with Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Food Security Technical Secretariat (FSTS) in provinces of Abyan, Dhale, Lahj, Baidha, Hodaida and Hajjah. It aims to assist and support the efforts of the Government in establishing a conducive institutional set up for food security decision making supported by a relevant, effective and sustainable National Food Security Information System.