Recommendations for "Public Services (62 results)"
Increase social protection and improve access to housing, health services and education for rural migrants and their families in urban centers.
2013
Clean and sufficient drinking water, proper sanitation, drains for wastewater and proper management of solid waste are key interventions in deprived areas to aide against infectious diseases and malnourishment.
2020
Government policies are crucial to underpinning market participation. They should target rural areas with measures to improve health and education services, upgrade infrastructure and foster labour markets, supporting an enabling environment that is conducive to business.
2020
Water, hygiene and sanitation programmes need to ensure access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities. Lack of access to clean water, sanitation and quality health care can cause diarrhea and infectious diseases that interfere with the body´s ability to absorb nutrients. Recurrent infections and disease are serious contributing factors to wasting and stunting in children.
2018
Investment in universal health coverage that both ensures primary health care interventions and builds community resilience is key. Funding needs to address the determinants of environmental and social health (such as housing safety and air, water and food quality) under various climate conditions; improve social welfare in emergency situations; and provide essential nutrition actions, including screening for and managing cases of child and adult malnutrition. It is equally important to take into account the diverse composition of modern communities (including migrants and different ethnicities) as well as differences in health-seeking behaviours.
2018
Enhance food utilization through access to clean water, sanitation, energy, technology, childcare, healthcare, and access to education, including on how to prepare, provide, and maintain safe and nutritious food.
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
States have a key role in providing public goods and services necessary for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, including infrastructure, energy, environmental protection, research and development, education, health, nutrition, and childcare services, among others, especially in rural areas. They are encouraged to ensure inclusive and non-discriminatory access to these services.
2014
Facilitate smallholders’ access to public services and the benefits from public policies and programs, by creating smallholder registries, as appropriate, at the national or regional level.
2014
Improve both public and private service system, including vocational training and foster efficient agricultural service organizations and enterprises, thus building a comprehensive service network covering all stages before, during and after production, including sustainable value chains.
2016
Improve coordination among responsible government authorities for the identification and implementation of policies to promote responsible public and private investments in infrastructure, irrigation, protection of soils, open and transparent markets, technologies, knowledge sharing, rural services including financial services, extension and advisory services, social protection programs, health and safety at work, employment services and vocational training and education.
2015
Ensure market access, both upstream and downstream, at remunerative prices for smallholder producers through government procurement programmes (e.g. public distribution and school feeding).
2020
To support their investment efforts, smallholder farmers need adequate access to public goods on both the production and consumption sides of the household, with benefits reinforcing each other. On the production side, public investments are needed, for example, in water management facilities and soil conservation. On the consumption side, public investments are needed in health services, education, water and sanitation, and social protection. Gender-specific support services are needed to recognize the differential roles of household members in production, consumption and the reproduction of the family unit over time.
2013
The most advanced food systems need to embrace engagement in public-private partnerships and reliance on voluntary standards as leading governance principles.
2021
Other public support to midstream SMEs includes financial incentives to comply with food safety standards and facilities to implement technical assistance programmes.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Enhance public procurement and other forms of structured and mediated markets, such as farm-to-school and public nutrition programmes, for sustainable and youth-led enterprises, using fair and transparent prices.
2021
Balance the keeping of data and genetic resources as a public good while creating incentives for private sector investment in sustainable food systems research.
2022
Invest in human capacity needed to innovate and diversify value chains by supporting agricultural education, advisory services, vocational training programmes and institutions, providing technical assistance and investing in technology transfer.
2022
Repurposing current public support to food and agriculture to increase the availability of nutritious foods to the consumer can contribute to the objective of making a healthy diet less costly and more affordable, globally and particularly in middle income countries.
2022
Where agriculture is still a key sector for the economy, jobs and livelihoods, mainly in low income countries but also in some lower middle income countries, it will be crucial to increase and prioritize public expenditure for the provision of general services support (GSS). This is an effective way to bridge productivity gaps for producing nutritious foods and enabling income generation to improve the affordability of a healthy diet. However, stepping up this type of support in these countries will require significant development financing.
2022
Repurposing current public support to food and agriculture to increase the availability of nutritious foods to the consumer can contribute to the objective of making a healthy diet less costly and more affordable, globally and particularly in MICs.
2022
Inputs from health systems can support and reinforce food systems transformation, for example, through the provision of essential nutrition actions in universal health coverage.
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
Nutrition counseling during pregnancy and supportive breastfeeding and complementary feeding programs are needed, alongside food system measures to regulate the marketing and promotion of breastmilk substitutes and foods for infants and young children.
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
National governments are primary actors to drive transformation and should have responsibility and accountability.
2021
Multifaceted and targeted territorial planning to address gender-related challenges to access affordable healthy diets (e.g., efficient transport systems to reduce the time between home and work; strategically locating city food outlets that supply nutritious, diverse food on routes that women take in their daily lives).
2023
In order to attract private sector investment, public investments need to be more targeted and part of more comprehensive national strategies for infrastructure development. For example, building “last-mile” infrastructure and logistics that enable delivery from a distribution centre or facility to the end user, opens up possibilities for producers to reach bigger markets and, in the process, creates conditions that foster agribusiness development.
2023
Private sector should improve the nutritional status of its workers and ensure their access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation and to nutritious foods in the workplace, facilitate access to nutrition-related health services and encourage the establishment of facilities for breastfeeding.
2021
Governments, with the support of intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, should strengthen public procurement systems by ensuring healthy diets are available, accessible, affordable and convenient in public settings and institutions, including kindergartens and other childcare facilities, schools, hospitals, foodbanks, government offices and workplaces, military bases andprisons, nursing homes, and care settings, in line with national food-based dietary guidelines, and engaging with, where available, smallholders and family farmers and vulnerable local food producers.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should consider promoting home grown school meals, where food served in schools and other child care facilities is procured, where appropriate, from smallholder and/or family farmers to support local communities and provide educational opportunities for students.
2021
Governments should promote an enabling environment to generate social, economic and cultural changes towards gender equality with specific gender responsive policies, programmes, institutions which should include adaptation of public services to support women, and advocacy campaigns to deal with the various forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, particularly in rural areas.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, development partners and other relevant stakeholders should acknowledge and advance the nutritional well-being of women and girls throughout the lifecycle, including through the provision of health, nutrition and other essential services.
2021
Raise policy makers’ and public awareness, using a science and evidence-based approach, about the risks of pesticides and other agrochemicals, to human, animal and plant health and the environment.
2019
Support innovative public procurement of food from small-scale producers and local small and medium enterprises and micro-enterprises in public policies regarding, among others, school feeding programmes, other safety nets, food assistance and public preparedness mechanisms, prioritizing low-income and food insecure people. Preference should be given to sustainably produced food that contributes to healthy diets while supporting local and rural development objectives.
2019
Investing in veterinary services and animal disease surveillance is crucial to improving animal health and welfare, reducing the economic impact of animal diseases, improving food safety, and reducing risks of antimicrobial resistance. This includes, but is not limited to, increased coverage of livestock vaccination.
2023
Improve extension services and dissemination of information, in particular for climate-smart agriculture practices, by providing farmers with access to training, information, and extension services to improve their knowledge and skills in modern crop cultivation techniques and sustainable farming practices.
2023
Change farm policies to promote sustainable productivity enhancement and risk management instruments, and shift policy incentives from support for adopting improved practices to support for sustained adoption over several years.
2023
Improve or change school food and nutrition programmes and other public procurement processes associated with food distribution to ensure that meals are consistent with updated food-based dietary guidelines and lead to healthy diets.
2023
Improve the determination of optimal public procurement and public stock programmes to avoid unnecessary stocks that could lead to losses.
2023
Protect animal health through improved veterinary services and animal disease surveillance.
2023
Redesign school-feeding programmes to promote access to healthy diets and devise new nutritional guidelines for food inside the school and surrounding the school campus where children have access to food. Support these efforts through policy, legal and institutional frameworks.
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
The public sector should fill gaps not addressed by commercially oriented actors, primarily by investing in public goods and enhancing social values, which requires relying on tax revenues, reducing corruption and tax evasion, stepping up food security and nutrition expenditure, and repurposing policy support.
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
Enhance decent work and employment in urban and peri-urban food systems, including by providing childcare spaces within traditional markets, promoting occupational safety and health, guaranteeing labour rights, etc.
2024
Facilitate inclusive access to quality social services particularly for smallholders, including those that are family farmers, and pastoralists.
2016
Facilitate inclusive access to quality extension, and breeding and veterinary services, particularly for smallholders, including those that are family farmers, and pastoralists.
2016
Ensuring universal access to health and education
2019
Allow for adequate access to health care, including access to mental health services, in the design and implementation of social safety nets.
2020
Need to complete the extension of their electrification and sanitation networks into remote rural areas
2019
Invest not only in education but also broadly in sectors such as transportation and energy infrastructure to create inclusive food system opportunities
2020
Combine technological innovations, institutional capacity, and infrastructure investments – such as use of information and communication technology, food quality certification, and cold-chains to catalyze positive systemic change at the national level
2020