Recommendations for "Social Protection (158 results)"
Use entry points such as climate change adaptation, human and environmental health, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, equity and social inclusion to establish dialogues with wide-ranging stakeholders around the multidimensional benefits of agroecological research for development.
2020
Ensure that the working and living conditions of all workers at all stages of production, transformation and distribution comply with ILO conventions, and are protected by domestic laws, and provide adequate living wages;
2016
Ensure that working and living conditions meet national and internationally agreed labor standards and reduce occupational hazards and other harmful effects on workers across the value chain;
2016
Increase social protection and improve access to housing, health services and education for rural migrants and their families in urban centers.
2013
Establish productive social nets, including conditional cash transfers that are tied to household participation in primary schooling and health services.
2013
Enhance productivity through the promotion of social protection initiatives such as vocational training and other education schemes tailored to the technical needs of smallholder farmers and backed by national research, as well as extension systems that promote smallholder-friendly and smallholder-accessible technologies. At the same time, such interventions could be used to help smallholders without profit potential increase their access to nutritious foods in the short term and acquire non-farm skills and employment in the long term.
2013
Rebalance agricultural policies and incentives toward more nutrition-sensitive investments throughout the food supply chain to reduce food losses and enhance efficiencies at all stages. Nutrition-sensitive social protection policies will also be central to increase the purchasing power and affordability of healthy diets of the most vulnerable populations, as well as policies that foster behavioral change towards healthy diets.
2020
Policies aimed at reducing poverty and income inequality, while enhancing employment and income-generating activities, are key to raising people’s incomes and the affordability of healthy diets. There are important synergies between policies enhancing employment and reducing income inequality for increased food security and better nutrition, including social protection.
2020
Nutrition-sensitive social protection policies are most appropriate to provide better access to nutritious foods to lower-income consumers and thus increase their affordability of healthy diets. There is a need to strengthen nutrition-sensitive social protection mechanisms and ensure they can support micronutrient supplementation where needed, as well as create healthy food environments by encouraging consumers to diversify their diets to reduce dependence on starchy staples, reduce consumption of foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt, and include more diverse, nutritious foods. Other policies include cash transfer programmes, in-kind transfers, school feeding programmes and subsidization of nutritious foods.
2020
Promote breastfeeding, regulate marketing of breastmilk substitutes, and ensure access to nutritious foods by infants to prevent adverse perinatal outcomes in undernourished women. Through balanced energy and protein supplementation, increased daily energy and protein intake, and optimizing breast feeding through early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding practices, as well as various social protection programmes, may increase food security and reduce women’s risk of becoming undernourished due to periods of pregnancy and lactation.
2020
Social protection schemes can improve access to food products that are rich in protein, vitamins and minerals that would otherwise not be accessible to poor households. Programmes targeted toward low-income households are more effective when coupled with additional interventions or conditions such as health and nutrition services and good sanitation practices.
2020
Strengthen food supply chains under humanitarian conditions. Coordinate action to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and avoid widespread famine, especially for millions of civilians living in conflict situations, including women and children. Expand emergency food assistance and social protection programs to ensure access to nutritious food for the poor and vulnerable, as they have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
2020
Food and nutrition education with a focus on food budgeting and resource management skills should be integrated into the national school curriculum, social protection and agriculture programmes, and food labelling and taxation schemes.
2020
In response to COVID-19, governments moved to strengthen food safety nets and social protection mechanisms to maintain access to food. Specific government measures could also address the impact of income reductions through subsidies, tax breaks and transfers to those affected. These measures are indispensable to preserve the gains realized in the reduction of food insecurity levels over recent decades.
2020
Policies and social mobilization to address the multiple challenges facing populations who are discriminated against of excluded (based on ethnicity, caste or religion) including: Legal, regulatory and policy frameworks to promote social inclusion; National public expenditure; Improving access to and adequacy of public services (sometimes exclusively targeted to these population group; Empowering institutions and their organizational capacity and participation in decision-making processes; Increasing accountability to protect human rights; and Working to gradually change discriminatory attitudes and behaviors
2019
More dedicated and comprehensive policies and development approaches are required that specifically target women’s economic empowerment and nutrition including: Access to reproductive health services and nutrition services; Care services; Skills training and access to employment and Maternity protection and social protection
2019
Access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food must be framed as a human right, with priority given to the most vulnerable. Policies that promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems are needed, with special attention to the food security and nutrition of children under five, school-age children, adolescent girls and women in order to halt the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.
2018
Social protection and safety net programmes need to ensure access to healthy diets for children and families left behind by mainstream development.
2018
It will not be possible to end all forms of malnutrition without ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round. This will require expanding the reach of social protection policies to address inequalities and ensuring that they are nutrition- and gender-sensitive in terms of: targeting; design; and in the
identification of complementary health care
and agriculture interventions to enhance
nutrition outcomes.
2018
Nutrition-sensitive and risk-responsive social protection programmes can also safeguard nutrition before and during climate shocks, especially if they allow households or nutritionally vulnerable groups – such as young children and pregnant and lactating mothers – to be able to afford nutrient-rich locally produced foods and maintain dietary diversity before, during and after a shock.
2018
Social protection mechanisms can help to reduce disaster risk vulnerability and strengthen livelihoods against the impact of a range of shocks, enabling more people to anticipate risks, bounce back better and faster and become more resilient.
2018
Safety nets are a subset of social protection and can be used as direct social assistance instruments for the poor with the aim of responding to and managing climate-related disasters. They include distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities. The choice of an instrument or combination of instruments depends on the context and goal.
2018
At the country level, well-established legislation, institutional structures, policies and plans can create an enabling environment to limit the impact of climate-related disasters and climate variability and build climate resilience. A mix of different tools – including regulation, fiscal instruments, investments in research and knowledge dissemination, support for market accessibility, improvements in infrastructure, and social protection – is seen as being more effective and sustainable in creating a pathway for climate resilience than a single intervention.
2018
Need for polices and scaled-up programmes aimed at building and strengthening resilience to shocks and stressors in order to prevent long-lasting consequences on food security and nutrition. Strengthening social policies and protection systems will be critical, as households’ own coping capacities tend to be considerably reduced in situations of violent conflict.
2017
Responsible investment should respect and not infringe on the human rights of others and address adverse human rights impacts. It should safeguard against dispossession of legitimate tenure rights and environmental damage. Responsible investment entails respect for gender equality, age, and non-discrimination and requires reliable, coherent and transparent law and regulations.
2014
Respect the fundamental principles and rights at work, especially those of agricultural and food workers, as defined in the ILO core conventions.
2014
Support the effective implementation of other international labour standards, where applicable, giving particular attention to standards relevant to the agri-food sector and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
2014
Create new jobs and foster decent work through improved working conditions, occupational safety and health, adequate living wages, and/or training for career advancement.
2014
Contribute to rural development, improving social protection coverage and the provision of public goods and services such as research, health, education, capacity development, finance, infrastructure, market functioning, and fostering rural institutions.
2014
Ensure that all people are treated fairly, recognizing their respective situations, needs, constraints, and the vital role played by women.
2014
Eliminate all measures and practices that discriminate or violate rights on the basis of gender.
2014
Recognize the contributions of farmers, especially smallholders in all regions of the world, particularly those in centres of origin and diversity, in conserving, improving, and making available genetic resources, including seeds; and, subject to national law and in accordance with applicable international treaties, respecting their rights, to save, use, exchange, and sell these resources, and recognizing the interests of breeders.
2014
Promote access to transparent and effective mediation, grievance, and dispute resolution mechanisms, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized.
2014
Take steps to respect human rights and legitimate tenure rights, during and after conflict, to achieve free, effective, meaningful, and informed participation in decision-making processes associated with investments in agriculture and food systems with all parties affected by the investments, including farmers, consistent with applicable international law, including human rights law and international humanitarian law, and in accordance with the VGGT.
2014
Promote responsible investment in agriculture and food systems that contributes to food security and nutrition and which supports the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security is the collective responsibility of all stakeholders. These Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] should be promoted, supported and utilized by all stakeholders according to their respective individual or collective needs, mandates, abilities, and relevant national contexts.
2014
States have the primary responsibility for achieving food security and nutrition, fulfilling their obligations under international instruments relevant to the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security; and respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of all individuals.
2014
All financing institutions and other funding entities are encouraged to apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] when formulating their policies for loans and grants, in the articulation of country investment portfolios and in co-financing with other partners. They should take appropriate measures so that their support to investors does not lead to violations of human and legitimate tenure rights, and is in line with the Principles. The provision of finance allows these institutions a unique leveraging position where they can communicate with a broad range of stakeholders about their roles, responsibilities, and actions to facilitate implementation of the Principles.
2014
Smallholders and their organisations should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems], with particular attention to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and youth, by (1) Increasing productivity and income, adding more value in their operations and using natural resources sustainably and efficiently, where applicable; (2) Strengthening their resilience;(3) Managing risks, relevant to their context and circumstances, to maximize positive, and avoid negative impacts on food security and nutrition; (4) Participating in policy, programme, and monitoring processes at all levels; (5) Complying with national laws and regulations and acting with due diligence to avoid infringing on human rights.
2014
Business enterprises involved in agriculture and food systems should apply the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] with a focus on mitigating and managing risks to maximize positive and avoid negative impacts on food security and nutrition, relevant to their context and circumstances. Business enterprises have a responsibility to comply with national laws and regulations and any applicable international law, and act with due diligence to avoid infringing on human rights.
2014
Business enterprises should respect legitimate tenure rights in line with the VGGT, and may use a range of inclusive business models. Processors, retailers, distributors, input suppliers, and marketers are encouraged to inform and educate consumers about the sustainability of products and services and respect national safety and consumer protection regulations.
2014
The role of workers in agriculture and food systems is vital. Workers and their organizations play a key role in promoting and implementing decent work, thereby contributing to efforts towards sustainable and inclusive economic development. They also have a crucial role in engaging in social dialogue with all other stakeholders to promote the application of the Principles in investments in agriculture and food systems, and in promoting the integration of the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] in national laws and policies.
2014
All stakeholders should play their role in resilience building and coordinate their efforts, in order to prevent or respond to shocks, disasters, crises, including protracted crises, and conflicts. They are encouraged to support the most vulnerable, protect existing investments, and promote targeted investment in food security and nutrition, in line with the Principles [CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems] and States’ obligations regarding the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.
2014
Enable the scale up of nutrition-specific interventions that promote healthy growth and development especially during the first 1000 days of life, alongside nutrition-sensitive activities that promote good nutrition across different areas, including agriculture, health, education and social protection.
2016
Promote climate risk management approaches for the most vulnerable households and communities, including through social protection measures, the Climate Risk Early Warning Systems Initiative and the Climate Risk Insurance Initiative.
2016
Farmers need adequate mechanisms to manage risks and market crises. National Governments and international forecast and management systems of agricultural statistics and early warning systems must be improved and better coordinated, in order to anticipate and prevent future crises. We have to ensure that the relevant international organizations and institutions will be able to meet the new challenges we are facing.
2009
Enhance social-protection measures and programs, with a focus on people living in vulnerable situations, of whom large shares depend on the agriculture and food sector for their livelihoods. This includes emergency food assistance and safety nets, cash and in-kind transfer programmes as appropriate, local procurement schemes and school feeding programmes as relevant, mother and child nutrition programmes, food banks, to the extent possible based on locally produced biodiverse food and local food culture, and other interventions focused on informal sector workers, with particular attention to effective action for gender equality, youth, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations, which builds agency and empowerment.
2021
Policies, research and investments should focus on protecting the interests of small and marginal farmers especially in developing countries.
2021
Strengthen the dissemination of best practices of the most effective policies and programs in the area of nutrition-sensitive social protection and enhance the exchange of experience and lessons learned among developing countries through the support of peer-to-peer cooperation, facilitation of relevant international and regional events as well as promotion of existing platforms and knowledge hubs.
2015
Recognize that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for human development and therefore social protection and safety nets programs are of utmost importance.
2015
Improved food security and nutrition requires inclusive economic growth and employment creation, especially for women and youth, and social protection mechanisms.
2015
Provide support services and social protection, including in crises and complex emergencies.
2020
Take strong measures to immediately address wealth, income and social inequality, which has profound implications for FSN.
2020
Initiate and strengthen social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, such as school feeding programmes, that address the quality and quantity of foods and diets to prevent malnutrition in all its forms.
2020
Develop policies that are targeted to helping people living with poverty in rural and urban areas to access nutritious food and healthier food environments.
2020
Pay special attention to migrant workers in the food system to ensure they are protected from health risks, have access to health services and social protection.
2020
Provide debt relief to governments struggling to maintain necessary social safety nets
2020
Governments should recognize in law the individual and collective rights of smallholders, including their right to organize democratically, to have voice in policy debates and to defend their interests, with gender- and age-balanced representation. Securing such rights is important not only intrinsically for them but also in contributing to building the political will necessary to implement the proposed National Smallholder Investment Strategies.
2013
Achieve the right to food for smallholder farmers. Attention needs to be given not only to increasing purchasing power, but also to accessing productive assets and increasing the productivity of land and labour in smallholder farming through appropriate training, technology and support services to achieve food and nutrition security with a rights-based approach.
2013
In addition, engaging SMEs in food fortification programmes, public food distribution systems (vouchers) and school feeding programmes contributes to overall healthier diets.
2021
Enhance standards of living and reduce vulnerability for youth through human rights-based social protection and safety nets in an equitable approach that includes gender and social inclusion.
2021
Enhance standards of living and reduce vulnerability for youth through human rights-based social protection and safety nets in an equitable approach that includes gender and social inclusion.
2021
Meet the specific food and nutrition needs of children and adolescents, including through school-feeding, public nutrition and nutrition-sensitive agriculture combined with food literacy education.
2021
Enhance standards of living and reduce vulnerability for youth through human rights-based social protection and safety nets in an equitable approach that includes gender and social inclusion.
2021
Improve labour law and regulations to establish thresholds and explicit protection for living wages and working conditions in all types of economic activities in food systems, taking into account informal work and the gig economy, as well as young migrant workers. This includes reducing hazardous exposures and supporting occupational health, provision of personal protective equipment, safe hours, and unemployment insurance. End the exemption of agricultural and fisheries workers from existing labour laws and protections.
2021
Develop social protection programmes that recognize and compensate young people’s unpaid contributions to food systems through their engagement in reproductive work and in volunteer and community development activities. Consider ways to legitimize and value care work, especially that performed by young women in the context of food systems (e.g. through the provision of public childcare, parental leave subsidies and other paid community service programming).
2021
Donors have a particular responsibility to help ensure that food systems transformation is underpinned by attention to inclusion, non-discrimination and human rights, to ensure benefits for all.
2022
Support partner countries to develop and implement universal social protection measures fit for the specific needs of those living in poverty and/ or in vulnerable contexts.
2022
Integrate measures to protect food production and distribution, and sustain adequate nutrition in times of crisis, including through school meals programmes.
2022
Help to strengthen national, regional and global early warning, foresight and scenario processes to enable more proactive responses to potential risks or emerging crises.
2022
Ensure adequate and equitable resources for rapid emergency responses, including local sourcing of food and other supplies.
2022
Better integrate development and humanitarian programming in a nexus approach, to build resiliency and decrease vulnerability to future crises and hazards.
2022
Social protection policies may be necessary to mitigate possible trade-offs from repurposing, particularly short-term income losses or negative effects on livelihoods, especially among the most vulnerable populations. Health system policies will also be key to ensure access to essential nutrition services for protecting the health of vulnerable groups, and the food and agricultural workforce, as well as to ensure food safety.
2022
Social protection policies may be necessary to mitigate possible trade-offs from repurposing, particularly short-term income losses or negative effects on livelihoods, especially among the most vulnerable populations. Health system policies will also be key to ensure access to essential nutrition services for protecting the health of vulnerable groups, and the food and agricultural workforce, as well as to ensure food safety.
2022
It is imperative that policies, investments and actions to reduce immediate food insecurity and malnutrition be implemented simultaneously with those aimed at a reduction in the levels of conflict and aligned with long-term socio-economic development and peacebuilding efforts.
2021
Economic and social policies, legislation and governance structures should be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, and to maintain access to nutritious foods, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, including women and children. In the immediate term, these must include social protection mechanisms and primary healthcare services.
2021
In conflict-affected areas, maintaining conflict-sensitive food systems functions to the extent possible, while aligning actions for immediate humanitarian assistance to protect lives and livelihoods, long-term development and sustaining peace, is key to building resilience of the most vulnerable in these areas.
2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that during economic slowdowns and downturns, it is critical to keep food supply chains operational, while providing adequate support to the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, ensuring continued production and access to nutritious foods, including through enhanced social protection programmes.
2021
It is important to recall that the majority of the chronically food insecure and many of the malnourished live in countries affected by insecurity and conflict. Therefore, it is imperative that conflict-sensitive policies, investments and actions to reduce immediate food insecurity and malnutrition be implemented simultaneously with those aimed at a reduction in the levels of conflict and aligned with long-term socio-economic development and peacebuilding efforts.
2021
Critically, the need for economic and social policies, institutions, legislation and other measures to be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns became evident, as these measures are designed to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, and to maintain access to nutritious foods and healthy diets.
2021
Early detection and support for the management or treatment of different forms of malnutrition, which is critical in informing food systems transformation, as well as social protection needs in crisis situations.
2021
Supporting household incomes and livelihoods for the poorest and most vulnerable groups. Measures include boosting job creation and implementing labour market policies, such as public works programmes that can be used as short-term measures to support purchasing power in times of crisis and for developing assets that bring future returns to livelihoods; social assistance initiatives, such as cash transfer programmes that provide support to meet the most immediate needs and that enable households to invest in their productive activities; and increasing universal access to healthcare, education and social services that could safeguard against setbacks to families, nations and regions.
2021
Economic and social policies, and legislation and governance structures should be in place well in advance of economic slowdowns and downturns to counteract the effects of adverse economic cycles when they do arrive, and to maintain access to nutritious foods, especially for the most vulnerable population groups, including women and children. In the immediate term, these must include social protection mechanisms and primary healthcare services.
2021
In conflict-affected areas, maintaining that conflict-sensitive food systems function to the highest extent possible, while also aligning actions for immediate humanitarian assistance to protect lives and livelihoods with development and sustaining peace efforts, is the key to building resilience of the most vulnerable in these areas.
2021
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that during economic slowdowns and downturns, it is critical to keep food supply chains operational, while providing adequate support to the livelihoods of the most vulnerable, ensuring continued production and access to nutritious foods, including through enhanced social protection programmes.
2021
It is important to recall that the majority of chronically food-insecure individuals, and many of the malnourished, live in countries affected by insecurity and conflict. Therefore, it is imperative that conflict-sensitive policies, investments and actions to reduce immediate food insecurity and malnutrition be implemented simultaneously with those aimed at a reduction in the levels of conflict, and aligned with long-term socio-economic development and peace-building efforts.
2021
Supporting household incomes and livelihoods for the poorest and most vulnerable groups. Measures include boosting job creation and implementing labour market policies, such as public works programmes that can be used as short-term measures to support purchasing power in times of crisis and for developing assets that bring future returns to livelihoods; social assistance initiatives, such as cash transfer programmes that provide support to meet the most immediate needs and that enable households to invest in their productive activities; and increasing universal access to healthcare, education and social services that could safeguard against setbacks to families, nations and regions.
2021
Improving access and affordability of healthy diets through school food and nutrition programmes (among others) especially ones designed to improve dietary diversity, while also encouraging the purchase of fresh food from local producers. In-kind transfers, especially in places where food markets are not functioning well, could increase access to nutritious foods, in addition to food subsidies, especially those focused on nutritious foods and targeted at the most vulnerable.
2021
If food prices were to reflect true costs, food healthy diets may become unaffordable for low-income consumers, and social safety nets would need to be put in place.
2021
Guarantee the right to food. Conceptualizing food as a right, rather than merely a market-based commodity, would provide a unified and universal framework for food systems transformation.
2021
Facilitate conflict resolution and negotiate trade-offs. Spotlighting the need for conflict resolution and trade-offs came with recognition that the urgency of food systems transformation means that disagreements must not become bottlenecks that stop the transition to more sustainable and equitable systems.
2021
Social protection programs can provide a safety net for vulnerable groups and support sustainable food systems transformation, including the transition to more climate-resilient crops and to off-farm and urban employment.
2022
Expanding “adaptive” social protection programs that comprise traditional social assistance, humanitarian responses, and disaster relief, and that are integrated with complementary climate investments targeted to the poor, can immediately reduce the impact of shocks and support inclusion in food systems transformation.
2022
In rural areas, cash transfers can contribute to improve dietary patterns and promote diversification of food production through the alleviation of liquidity constraints. In addition, cash transfer programmes associated with nutrition education offer greater chances to improve child nutrition and health.
2023
The adoption of biofortified crops by smallholder farmers can improve the supply of essential micronutrients not only via own consumption, but also through commercialization in local markets and inclusion in social protection programmes including in-kind food transfers and school meal programmes (the latter in all kinds of settings across the rural–urban continuum).
2023
Allow markets to work by removing distortions and support the most vulnerable countries and households via social safety nets, and where most needed, through humanitarian assistance.
2022
Countries should target social protection and food subsidies towards the most vulnerable households. Accurate targeting is crucial to ensure that subsidies go to the truly needy and not to more prosperous households that can absorb increased food costs, or households that can readily switch to lower-cost alternative foods.
2022
Countries should provide humanitarian aid through programs such as the World Food Programme (WFP). Countries in the position to do so should ensure that WFP and other organizations are adequately funded.
2022
To the extent possible, assistance should not be tied to national export interests—organizations like WFP operate most efficiently when they are able to source food from the lowest cost suppliers.
2022
Design and implement asset-building and livelihood programmes, such as land and livestock transfers, tailored for resource-poor, disadvantaged groups.
2023
Ensure universal access to social protection as direct support for food security and nutrition among the most marginalized groups, and to enhance access to productive assets for those with food systems-dependent livelihoods.
2023
Contribute to ensuring access to decent work for all, including in food systems, as a key condition for a living wage and access to food. This would include implementing labour protection policies, strategies and programmes (such as those on occupational safety and health, regulations on working hours and pay, maternity protection) that protect both the labour and human rights of food system workers.
2023
Governments, also in partnership with research organizations and intergovernmental organizations, with increasing research projects, where appropriate, should work to strengthen existing national statistical and monitoring systems that capture, harmonize and disaggregate data by key socio-demographic characteristics, and where possible use, and improve the availability and quality of existing indicators, including within SDGs, across all aspects of food systems and outcomes related to food security, diets, food composition, food safety, nutritional status, and gender and other relevant social factors, for improved policy development and accountability, and better targeting of public programmes.
2021
Governments should provide, and intergovernmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should promote, where applicable, social protection programmes to food producers and workers helping them to be food secure, have decent income and wages and sufficient livelihoods, and access and afford healthy diets and adequate health services.
2021
Governments should link the provision of healthy school meals through sustainable food systems with clear nutritional objectives, aligned with national food-based dietary guidelines and adapted to the needs of different age groups, with special attention to those most affected by hunger and malnutrition.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should facilitate the affordability of healthy diets through sustainable food systems for poor households through social protection programmes, such as vouchers for nutritious foods, cash transfers, school feeding programmes or other community meals programmes.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should promote the readiness and resilience of social protection programmes to cope with pandemics and other systemic shocks that negatively impact food security and nutrition.
2021
Governments and other stakeholders should attach a great importance and are encouraged to promote gender equality and create the necessary conditions for women to fully realize their potential, in line with national legislation and universally agreed human rights instruments.
2021
Promoting and supporting that national development strategies are informed by participatory gender and age analyses, and that women and girls throughout the lifecycle, with compromised nutritional status and higher levels of deprivation, access gender-responsive socialprotection programmes and benefits.
2021
Governments and other key stakeholder should acknowledge and vale women’s crucial contributions as caregivers, in agriculture, food production an preparation, recognizing women significant time and workload commitments, including unpaid care work and domestic chores at the household level. This should be addressed through the effective implementation of gender-sensitive and transformative policies, social protection programmes and other benefits, and the promotion of equitable sharing of domestic chores.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should pay particular attention, to protection issues, and ensure safe and unhindered access to safe, nutritious food and nutritional support to the most vulnerable groups and implement community based nutrition education activities to address malnutrition in humanitarian contexts and should foster access to productive resources and to markets that are remunerative and beneficial to smallholders.
2021
Governments, parties involved in conflicts, international humanitarian organizations and other relevant stakeholders should, where appropriate, ensure safe and unhindered access of all members of affected and at-risk populations to food security and nutrition assistance, in both acute and protracted crises, consistent with internationally recognized humanitarian principles, as anchored in Geneva Convention of1949 and other UNGA Resolutions after 1949.
2021
Governments, with the support of intergovernmental organizations and international assistance and cooperation where appropriate, should ensure safe and unhindered access to safe and nutritious food and nutritional support for refugees, internally displaced people, host communities, and asylum seekers in their territory, in accordance with governments’ obligations under relevant international agreed instruments.
2021
Governments should have, in accordance with national priorities and capacities, emergency preparedness plans in place to ensure food security and nutrition of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups as well as emergency nutrition surveillance with appropriate indicators during crises such as epidemics and pandemics, conflicts and disasters including those induced by climate change.
2021
Governments, all parties involved in conflicts, disasters including those induced by climate change, epidemics and pandemics, and food assistance, including intergovernmental organizations, should underline and support that food security and nutrition assessments and analyses include appropriate safeguards for the identification and management of potential conflicts of interests, are undertaken throughout a crisis to inform food assistance and nutrition response as well as any components of the local food system requiring rehabilitation or improvement.
2021
Governments should acknowledge nutrition as an essential need and humanitarian assistance should aim to meet and monitor nutritional requirements of the affected population, particularly the most vulnerable to malnutrition. Any food items provided should be fit for purpose, of appropriate nutritional quality and quantity, be safe and acceptable. Food should conform to the food standards of the host country’s government.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should support social protection mechanisms and programmes to prevent and manage wasting, that include safe, nutritious and, where possible, locally produced food, and that achieve adequate coverage during times of crisis.
2021
Food fortification can play a complementary role in humanitarian contexts and should be evidence-based, and context-specific.
2021
Social protection mechanisms should be in support of local markets and accessibility of nutritious food in the longer term.
2021
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should support, when implementing cash and voucher assistance, that the minimum expenditure basket and transfer value promotes, nutritious and safe food, if possible, sustainably produced, that is preferably locally, or regionally procured and sufficient to provide a healthy diet for all stages of the lifecycle consulting existing guidance from WFP and other UN relevant intergovernmental organizations.
2021
Support the optimal combination and reconciliation of family and work life, including through economic empowerment of women, social protection programmes, including among others child and family support payments, and parental leave, establishment of minimum wages, reduction of the gender pay gap, and quality job and pensions as well as redistribution of unpaid care work.
2021
Promote the human rights of all and recognize the importance of the values and interests of peasants, indigenous peoples, local communities, family farmers, and other people working in rural areas, and the importance of strengthening their ability to avoid exposure and poisoning from hazardous agrochemicals.
2019
Support capacity development for producers, in particular small-scale producers, as well as policy makers and all other relevant actors, on agroecological and other innovative approaches to support innovation processes suited to their contexts and needs, and link these with social protection programmes where appropriate.
2019
Protect fishers and fish workers with social protection and inclusive access.
2023
Increase capacity of and access to social protection, decent working conditions, and safety at sea for fishers and fish workers.
2023
Protect consumers and particularly children, from invasive marketing campaigns promoting unhealthy foods and beverages (ultra-processed foods, those high in sugar/salt, and addictive substances).
2023
Change food taxes and subsidies to provide consumers with an economic and rational decision-making justification for change; food subsidies to promote healthy diets targeting low-income households are beneficial for increasing the affordability of healthy diets.
2023
Improve social protection systems; strengthened social protection systems enhance the capacity to swiftly reach and assist vulnerable populations, ensure timely support, facilitate effective adaptation and recovery efforts, and ensure seamless delivery of multiple services.
2023
Protect vulnerable groups, especially women, impacted by climate change through well designed social safety net programmes and public employment programmes that incorporate climate vulnerability in their targeting.
2023
Protect low-income and vulnerable groups from the side effects of mitigation or nutrition policies through adequate cash transfers and job training in case of reduction of their economic activities due to mitigation measures originating from agrifood systems (e.g. reduced production of some commodities) or beyond (e.g. energy pricing).
2023
Change climate finance orientation to favour redirection towards social protection.
2023
Improve social safety net programmes to consider nutritional needs, especially for women, and promote healthy diets.
2023
Scale up nutrition-sensitive social protection in LMICs, including appropriate targeting of vulnerable groups, delivering transfers that come closer to bridging the healthy diet affordability gap, and linking social protection with nutrition education interventions that increase demand for healthy foods and decrease demand for unhealthy foods.
2024
Promote production and consumption of biofortified or fortified staple foods as complementary nutrition strategies where needed. These foods can be an equitable and affordable means of delivering nutrients to especially vulnerable populations, including women and children.
2024
Support increased animal-source foods consumption among populations with deficient diets in LMICs, for instance by making animal-source foods more affordable through increased farm productivity, improved market efficiency, and by raising household income, for example, using social safety nets.
2024
Integrate humanitarian, development and peacebuilding policies in conflict affected areas by promoting conflict-sensitive policies; fostering peacebuilding efforts linked to livelihood support; implementing nutrition-sensitive social protection and food production and supply programmes; supporting functioning and resilient food supply chains; adopting community-based approaches in post-conflict policies.
2024
Strengthen economic resilience of the most vulnerable to economic adversity by strengthening agrifood productivity and market linkages along the food supply chain; curbing rises in food prices and excessive price volatility; boosting decent job creation; expanding social protection schemes and school feeding programmes.
2024
National governments, together with local government actors, should work to ensure that trade regulations and policy are oriented towards increasing access and affordability of healthy diets, with a particular focus on poor families, protecting urban and peri-urban populations from the increasing availability and targeted marketing of foods high in sugar, salt and fat and protecting the interests of small‑scale and informal operators.
2024
In addition to strengthening markets, non‑market food sources, such as public procurement, community kitchens and remittances, should also be supported and developed to cater to the most vulnerable population groups and to provide buffer in times of crises.
2024
Invest in nutrition‑oriented public procurement programmes, specifically targeted at vulnerable populations within urban and peri-urban populations.
2024
Prioritize local, agroecological and small‑scale farmers in public procurement programmes, particularly within school feeding programmes and programming aimed at nutrition in the first 1 000 days.
2024
Develop local bylaws that support the decentralized development of food banks and community kitchens, as well as deferral of surplus food to food banks, community kitchens and other food distribution programmes, informed by principles of dignity and agency.
2024
Strengthen the role of civil society organizations in providing food aid in times of crisis, harnessing their capacity to reach vulnerable populations.
2024
Incentivize investments towards low‑income residents and neighbourhoods for the provision of water, sanitation, waste management and reliable energy to enable healthy diets, safer food handling, and washing, preparation and cooking of meals at home.
2024
Develop and invest in social protection programmes targeting specific urban and peri-urban contexts.
2024
Include food‑system support in disaster‑response funding plans at all levels, from national to local.
2024
Facilitate inclusive access to quality safety nets particularly for smallholders, including those that are family farmers, and pastoralists.
2016
Food coupons to vulnerable groups for fresh produce markets
2019
Ensuring universal access to health and education
2019
Shock-responsive social protection systems can expand cash transfers (conditional or unconditional depending on the existing level of institutionality), cash for work or food for work programmes when covariate or intrinsic shocks occur
2019
Guaranteeing funding of social safety nets (Targeted social protection programmes including conditional or unconditional cash transfers and school feeding ; and public works programmes that help reduce unemployment)
2019
Shock-responsive social protection (including social safety nets such as distributing food assistance; subsidizing prices for foodstuffs; providing vouchers, coupons or school meals; and providing support through cash transfers or public works activities) risk transfers (e.g., climate risk insurance) and forecast-based financing
2018
Provide adequate emergency food aid, wherever possible with local and regional purchase of foods for food assistance
2020
Maintain robust social safety nets recognizing that household food expenditure rise and fall in relation to other expenditures (e.g., on housing, health care, education etc.,)
2020
Whenever possible, provide alternatives to school lunch programmes when schools are closed.
2020
Allow for adequate access to health care, including access to mental health services, in the design and implementation of social safety nets.
2020
Promotional social protection: combined with targeted capacity strengthening, may not only improve the income and use of essential services, such as education or preventive health care, but can also help households to diversify livelihood options and so manage future risks and promote longer-term resilience.
2016
Social protection reform. Scope for integrating social protection and agricultural programmes should be further explored. Public provision of a basic package of benefits for all, such as health, education, pensions and other forms of protection should be the ultimate goal
2016