Supporting Healthy Diets Through Regulatory Capacity Building, Advocacy, and Data for Action and Accountability

Diet-related NCDs, including obesity, are a major challenge for development, and are a threat to progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Evidence-based policy and regulatory measures may be cost-effective strategies to create healthier food environments and promote healthy diets. The event showcases successful country experience of building enabling policy and regulatory environments to promote healthy diets, to contribute to reducing overweight, obesity and diet-related NCDs, from the Global Regulatory and Fiscal Capacity Building Programme (Global RECAP). Global RECAP has been implemented since 2019 by IDLO and WHO in coordination with the International Development Research Center and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the European Union. To date, the Programme has supported ten low- and middle-income countries in Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda) and Asia (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand).

Through a roundtable discussion, representatives from RECAP country stakeholders, implementing agencies, and donors, will present the Programme’s integrated methodology and share insights on challenges, good practices and achievements experienced in the implementation of the Programme. The event will also display videos and recorded interviews from RECAP country stakeholders from government, civil society, and academia, sharing insights from initiatives to promote healthier food environments using regulatory and fiscal measures through a multisectoral approach, tailored to each country context. A moderated discussion will engage the audience to promote cross-country and cross-regional experience sharing and provide an opportunity for questions.