WHO Motion Framework for Establishing and Utilizing Public Meals Procurement and Provider Insurance policies for a Nutritious Diet
On 12 January 2021, WHO will start a new Action framework for establishing and employing general public meals procurement and assistance procedures for a healthful eating plan at a digital high-degree function in collaboration with Resolve to Preserve Lives, an initiative
of Very important Techniques.
Every calendar year, unhealthy meal plans are responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths and shed years of superior overall health. Urgent action is essential to end the escalating use of food items and beverages that guide to unhealthy weight loss plans. Of finest concern are extra usage of
sodium and salt, sugars and fat, significantly trans fat, and very low use of total grains, legumes, veggies and fruits.
Governments worldwide have a unique option and also responsibility to guide by case in point by way of the implementation of healthful community foodstuff procurement and provider guidelines, requiring that all meals and drinks served or bought in general public configurations lead
to the promotion of nutritious meal plans.
Wholesome general public foods procurement and service guidelines can add to enabling the population to eat healthy diets and cutting down the burden of all varieties of malnutrition, in distinct, untimely dying and incapacity from preventable eating plan-relevant noncommunicable
ailments. They can also contribute to improved productiveness and educational attainment build buying electric power, which can maximize desire for, and availability of much healthier foodstuff and minimize costs bolster area meals units by advertising getting from neighborhood producers, and strengthen well being fairness across populations.
The action framework will guidance policymakers or programme managers working on public foods procurement or assistance, both at a countrywide or subnational stage which includes at regional, provincial or city level to produce new public foods procurement and support procedures or to bolster or extend current procedures. This action framework supplies an overview of how to create, put into action, monitor and appraise a wholesome general public food procurement policy.
Speakers:
- Dr Francesco Branca, Director, Office of Nutrition and Foodstuff Basic safety, WHO (Moderator)
- Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-Typical, WHO
- Dr Tom Frieden, President, Take care of to Conserve Life
- Dr Chizuru Nishida, Unit Head, Safe and sound, Balanced and Sustainable Diet, Office of Nutrition and Food Basic safety, WHO
- Ms Kaia Engesveen, Technological Officer, Multisectoral Motion in Food Devices, Department of Diet and Food stuff Safety, WHO
- Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-Standard, UHC/More healthy Populations, WHO
Video messages from:
- Ms Christine Johnson Curtis, Former Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Long-term Condition Prevention and Tobacco Manage, New York Metropolis Department of Wellbeing and Psychological Hygiene, United states
- Sri Lanka (TBC)
- Ms Betina Bergmann Madsen, Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark
- Ms Vilma Tyler, Team lead and senior adviser on diet of school-age children, adolescents and women, UNICEF
- Ms Lynnda Kiess, Chief, Nutrition Integration Workforce, Nourishment Division, WFP
Date/time:
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, at 13:30 – 14:30 CET
Please sign up in progress at:
https://who.zoom.us/webinar/sign-up/WN_OjC13z0zTDCJB4gsCNNOVA
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