[EQ] Public-private engagement for diet and health: addressing the governance gap

Nutrition and Business - How to engage?

United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition UNSCN, 2011

Available online PDF [107p.] at: http://bit.ly/wVyqnN

CONTENTS

Editorial Denise Costa Coitinho Delmuè

Public-private engagement for diet and health: addressing the governance gap. By Corinna Hawkes & Kent Buse

 

“…..Core activities of public-private healthy eating initiatives

1. Health promotion and communication campaigns (e.g., information leaflets and post-ers)

2. Diet and nutrition education in formal and informal learning venues (e.g., building cooking skills)

3. Communicating information on food products (e.g., nutrition labelling, and “healthy food” logos )

4. Controlling advertising and marketing of food products (e.g., through advertising codes on marketing)

5. Increasing or decreasing access to food products (e.g., fruits, vegetables, vending ma-chines)

6. Conducting or supporting research (e.g., on development of novel foods)

7. Developing or reformulating food products (e.g., reducing salt)

8. Developing recommendations, guidelines, advice and strategies for governments and industry (e.g., government forum that includes the food industry)

9. Encouraging private sector action in general, such as providing a forum for commit-ments (e.g., “Platforms”)

10. Funding for above activities connected to healthy eating….”
 

FEATURES

The accountability of public-private partnerships with food, beverage and quick-serve restaurant companies to address global hunger and the double burden of malnutrition.

The potential of public-private-civil society partnerships in humanitarian emergencies: an NGO perspective drawing from emergency programming in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Hybrid public-private delivery of preventative lipid-based nutrient supplement products: key challenges, opportunities and players in an emerging product space.

Private-public partnerships drive one solution to vitamin and mineral deficiencies: Fortify West Africa

Social marketing in public-private partnerships as a tool for scaling up nutrition: a case study from Tanzania.

Governments should govern, and corporations should follow the rules.

Food and beverage transnational corporations and nutrition policy.

RESEARCH REPORT

A qualitative study of UNSCN Steering Committee and Working Group facilitators views on engagement with the private industry

EXAMPLES OF ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS

UNSCN private sector engagement policy

IUNS private sector engagement policy

SLMA Guidelines for health and nutrition related endorsement of branded commercial products
IBFAN’s funding policy .

IAP guidelines on conference organization

Developing more effective UN-business partnerships.

The human right to adequate food: reflections on the engagement with the private sector.

 

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