By the end of 2023, WHO will develop, finalize and disseminate 12 evidence-informed guidelines for improving food environment (including out of home environment) and promoting safe and healthy diets, together with implementation tools (such as sugars benchmarks), to support countries' accelerating actions to develop evidence-informed regulatory and policy actions
Description
The work will follow the World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline development process as outlined in the WHO Handbook on Guideline Development, to ensure it is consistent with internationally accepted best practices, is appropriately based on evidence through systematic reviews and is based on a transparent process for evaluating the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations through the use of GRADE (Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation).
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Regulation for the food environment
Description
Over the next four years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) commits to accelerating actions that support countries in developing regulatory and policy measures. It will do this by providing evidence-informed guidance and strengthening national regulatory and food control system capacities (including laboratory capacities) to implement compliance, monitoring and enforcement to improve the food environment and promote safe and healthy diets for all.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Research, monitoring and data
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of evidence-informed guidelines for improving the food environment and promoting safe and healthy diets |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 12 evidence-informed guidelines for improving food environment (including out of home environment) and promoting safe and healthy diets were developed, finalized and disseminated | 2021 |
| Target | 12 Guidelines | December 2023 |
