Goal
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
Regulation for food environment
World Health Organization
| Verification status | Find out more |
|---|---|
| NAF SMARTness index | Low Find out more |
| Targeted location | Global - |
| Targeted population | Overall population (all ages, both sexes) |
| Primary indicator | Number of evidence-informed guidelines for improving food environment and promoting safe and healthy diets |
| Primary indicator 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 |
| Primary indicator target | 12 |
| Duration | January, 2022 - December, 2023 |
Goal action plan
The work will follow the WHO's Guideline Development process which is guided by 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 transparent process for evaluating the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations through use of GRADE (Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation).
Nutrition Action Classification
Enabling
- Financial
- Operational
- Leadership and governance
- Research monitoring and data
Policy
- Food environment
- Food supply chain
- Consumer knowledge
- Nutrition care services
Impact
- Undernutrition
- Diet
- Obesity and diet-related NCDs
- Food and nutrition security
