1. General comments on the Draft of the Rome Declaration on Nutrition.
On behalf of the International Agri-Food Network, I wish to make some brief points in the area of nutrition and attach our position paper. The Network is a unique focal point for the food value chain from farmers to small and medium entrepreneurs, to large multinational companies, national associations and co-operatives. The IAFN seeks to represent members in 135 countries.
As we go forward together, the private sector is committed to offering tools and capabilities in robust partnerships with other stakeholders that seek to launch nutrition solutions for country driven programs and initiatives.
We want to build on the game changing achievements of the past 5 years through a network of these partnerships that identify, prioritize and implement initiatives and programs in areas that can make a real difference.
The private sector recognizes the values it can leverage through public- private partnerships among key drivers to help:
- Support programs and initiatives to achieve the Zero Hunger Challenge;
fulfill the recommendations and guidance directions of the 2013 Lancet Series;
- Participate in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement;
strengthen the policy dialogue and advocate for relevant UN Committee on World Food Security (UN CFS) guidelines;
- Shape the sustainable agricultural productivity and nutrition targets in the Post-2015 Development Framework; and
- Fulfill the mission of the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) to build a new nutrition policy framework.
We believe the following two principles are absolutely essential to help fulfill the mission of building a new nutrition policy framework:
- Embed nutrition in multi-sector strategies within national and local government plans and initiatives, stressing the valued roles for nutrition with health, agriculture, education, environment, finance, gender, diversity, and other development factors.
- Recognize that the Zero Hunger Challenge depends on collaborations among stakeholder partners to implement mutually shared, purpose driven goals and aspirations
To our partners at FAO and WHO, we respectively offer that the 2014 ICN2 planning body would be well served to establish and maintain open, transparent interactive platforms and mechanisms for the civil society and private sector mechanisms and other interested stakeholders to fully participate as the process and events move ahead over the coming months.
And to our friends and colleagues at FAO, WHO and the Civil Society Mechanism, we express our interest and desire to work together to help create the environment for building trust as we seek to demonstrate the effective value of leveraging our capabilities in these partnerships.
1. General comments on the Draft of the Rome Declaration on Nutrition.
On behalf of the International Agri-Food Network, I wish to make some brief points in the area of nutrition and attach our position paper. The Network is a unique focal point for the food value chain from farmers to small and medium entrepreneurs, to large multinational companies, national associations and co-operatives. The IAFN seeks to represent members in 135 countries.
As we go forward together, the private sector is committed to offering tools and capabilities in robust partnerships with other stakeholders that seek to launch nutrition solutions for country driven programs and initiatives.
We want to build on the game changing achievements of the past 5 years through a network of these partnerships that identify, prioritize and implement initiatives and programs in areas that can make a real difference.
The private sector recognizes the values it can leverage through public- private partnerships among key drivers to help:
fulfill the recommendations and guidance directions of the 2013 Lancet Series;
strengthen the policy dialogue and advocate for relevant UN Committee on World Food Security (UN CFS) guidelines;
We believe the following two principles are absolutely essential to help fulfill the mission of building a new nutrition policy framework:
To our partners at FAO and WHO, we respectively offer that the 2014 ICN2 planning body would be well served to establish and maintain open, transparent interactive platforms and mechanisms for the civil society and private sector mechanisms and other interested stakeholders to fully participate as the process and events move ahead over the coming months.
And to our friends and colleagues at FAO, WHO and the Civil Society Mechanism, we express our interest and desire to work together to help create the environment for building trust as we seek to demonstrate the effective value of leveraging our capabilities in these partnerships.
Thank you.