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In the week of 16 to 20 October 2023, the Micro Nutrient Forum was hosted in The Hague. Various types of stakeholders (donors, non-governmental organisations, private sector) came together at a location in the centre of the city to discuss the importance of nutritious food.

Participants in We are Able! projects in Uganda tell their personal stories in the autumn edition of Vice Versa Global Magazine: the Zero Hunger special.* In this special, Vice Versa Global highlights stories of how people in Africa embrace sustainable approaches that ensure availability of locally produced food.

The We are Able! consortium participated in the 1-2 November conference ‘Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy’, organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The 2-day event included plenary sessions and workshops, attended by around 500 participants from all over the world.

The We are Able! programme conducts an annual meeting every year. The 2023 edition was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Sunday 18 June to Saturday 24 June. The annual meeting was attended by around 40 participants from all countries of the programme.

Malachie Siboniyo always thought that he was not the same as others in his community in Burundi. He was born with a physical disability. He took part in the PIP (Integrated Agricultural Planning) through the We are Able! programme and changed his life.

Together with his six children and wife, Alfred (35) lives in Uriama Sub County in Uganda. For a long time, Alfred thought that he was unable to engage in serious farming activities because of his physical and visual disability.

The WaA! position paper is an exploration of the realities experienced by persons with disabilities in East and Central Africa. We delve into their daily challenges and examine how these adversities directly impact their food and livelihood security.

To give shape to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the We Are Able! Programme prioritizes the development of a Local Inclusion Agenda as a crucial cross- cutting tool to ensure disability inclusion at local level.

Join us as we check in with Buthyna and Hisham, two trainers from the We Are Able! Training of Trainers programme in Sudan. Faced with unique challenges, they share the key role that building capacity among practitioners has in their work at home.

Agriculture is an important sector in Uganda, but despite this there is a big problem with when it comes to food security. One of the main causes of food insecurity is the low ability to access and use productive resources such as land and water.