The specific aims of Sysalim programme are: 

PO1: Enhance the environmentally responsible and climate-sensitive development of value chains with high nutritional and commercial potential to contribute to the inclusive development of rural areas, facilitate equal access to decent incomes for young people and women, and ensure the supply of suitable, accessible and quality products to urban centres; 

PO2: Strengthen the institutional and governance framework to transform food systems to address the structural causes of food and nutrition insecurity (including gender perspective) and implement publicly accessible communication plans to shift consumption patterns towards healthy diets that value local products and are adapted to climate change.

The main direct beneficiaries are small producers as well as micro, small and medium-sized agri-food enterprises and consumers. Local communities and communities in intervention areas will be indirect beneficiaries and will have access to an increased supply of safe and diversified local products. In addition, attention is paid to local promoters of economic projects and more specifically to women and young people in order to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem based on the development of nutrition-sensitive value chains ‘from field to fork’ benefiting local populations.

The expected results of the implementation of the activities at sub-national level are:

R1.1 Professional advisory and information services (climate change, environment, biodiversity, gender) are developed or strengthened

R1.2 Collaborations and/or contractual links between MSMEs, market actors and producer organisations in value chains (milk, local cereals and market garden crops) are strengthened 

R1.3 Organisation of milk, local cereals and marsh value chains is strengthened

R1.4 Awareness and promotion of healthy diets are ensured

R1.5 Products and equal access to (green) financial services are improved

R1.6 Developing pilots of innovative, nutrition-sensitive and environmentally sensitive value chains for decent and sustainable incomes for women and young people is being carried out.

For the successful transformation of sustainable local food systems ensuring healthy diets, good governance and the emergence of an enabling environment for this transformation is crucial, and therefore inextricably linked to stronger public action at local level. Therefore, the expected results of the implementation of the activities at national or central level have been defined as follows: 

R2.1 Nutrition is mainstreamed into sectoral public policies in at least 2 productive sectors (agriculture/livestock)

R2.2 Steering of nutrition-sensitive public policies and the effectiveness of information tools and programme performance monitoring is strengthened

R2.3 Analysis of the visibility of nutrition-sensitive public finances is carried out 

R2.4 Development and promotion of dietary and nutritional recommendations shall be supported.

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