{"id":2794,"date":"2019-05-23T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracamacheltrust.org\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:48:32","slug":"highlights-from-graca-machels-welcome-remarks-at-the-eighth-international-policy-conference-on-the-african-child-child-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/featured\/highlights-from-graca-machels-welcome-remarks-at-the-eighth-international-policy-conference-on-the-african-child-child-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from Gra\u00e7a Machel\u2019s welcome remarks at the eighth International Policy Conference on the African Child: Child Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-2795\" src=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-400x300.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-400x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1367\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271367%27%20height%3D%271025%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201367%201025%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271367%27%20height%3D%271025%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-320x240.png 320w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-700x525.png 700w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-1200x900.png 1200w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Graca-machel-quote-on-hunger.png 1577w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1367px) 100vw, 1367px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of May, Mrs Gra\u00e7a Machel gave opening remarks at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanchildforum.org\/ipc\/\"><strong> Eighth International Policy Conference on the African Child<\/strong><\/a> dedicated to the pressing issue of child hunger in Africa. She gave this presentation in her capacity as the chairperson for the International Board of Trustees for the African Child Policy Forum. The African Child Policy Forum organises, on a biennial basis, the International Policy Conference on the African Child \u2013 the IPC. This is a Pan-African forum for reflection and policy dialogue on themes of paramount importance to our continent. It brings together key stakeholders from government, development partners and civil society from across and beyond Africa. Earlier conferences have addressed critical issues such as Violence against Girls, Child Poverty, Inter-country Adoption, and Crimes against Children.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth International Policy Conference on the African Child intended to initiate, catalyse, and contribute to an Africa-wide conversation on the subject of child hunger and mobilise collective action, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and Africa\u2019s Agenda 2063.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some key highlights from Mrs Machel&#8217;s presentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s time for introspection<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI often ask myself where did we go wrong? As Africans, it is time that we have a candid conversation and critically examine our policies and institutions, where we are doing well, and where we got it wrong. It is clear to me the past has not been satisfying. It was Einstein, who said that the technical definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We need to revisit the path we have followed over the last more than 50 years or so and investigate the political economy and intellectual paradigm within which we have been thinking and operating. This is tough and complicated. But we have to pose and confront ourselves intellectually. Such reflection and an Africa-wide conversation is very much needed to help us understand the statics and dynamics of our condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Investment in Nutrition is urgent<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI have been saying it in various forums and want to repeat it here again: The development of our nations and societies will continue to be stunted unless we invest massively in addressing child hunger. I strongly believe that we, as a society, can and should do better. This is why, as a Champion of the African Leaders for Nutrition Initiative, I am calling on African governments to invest in good nutrition for their children, starting now. I encourage us all to lend our voice to the #3in3 campaign, which calls on African countries to increase the amount of their national budgets that they allocate to nutrition by 3% over the next 3 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/nutrition\/\"><strong>Read more on our nutrition programme here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 23rd of May, Mrs Gra\u00e7a Machel gave opening  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[742,4,81,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-featured","category-highlight","category-nutrition-highlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}