New online dashboard gathers information about OCOP-supported priorities agreed between FAO and each Member State

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched the Country Programming Framework (CPF) Dashboard linked below which serves as a comprehensive and user-friendly platform that makes CPF and UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework status information readily available.

The Dashboard also gathers all CPF documents which guide the partnership between authorities in each Member Nation and FAO, although these documents are only accessible to United Nations staff, including all colleagues working for FAO across the world. 

The information on the CPF Dashboard is regularly updated by the FAO Regional offices and the FAO Office of Strategy, Programme and Budget Team according to the latest data gathered at country level, along with data from external platforms such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Portal. 

Definition of a CPF and how they are supported by One Country One Priority Product

CPFs are planning and management tools which outline how FAO can best assist a country in meeting its development priorities, setting out jointly agreed, medium-term priorities for Member Nation and FAO collaboration. 

As set out in the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) Action Plan 2021 – 2025 “The OCOP serves the FAO mission of supporting Members to implement their FAO Country Programming Frameworks (CPF) more efficiently, representing a key entry point to assist them reaching their defined priorities and contribute to the Regional Initiatives. Hence, helping countries to address the national strategies to reach SDG targets, particularly to achieve SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 2 (zero hunger)” (p. 25-26). 

At the time of writing, 83 countries have applied to promote 53 Special Agricultural Products (SAPs) as part of the OCOP Initiative. Resources worth over 11 million USD have been mobilized to implement OCOP country projects.