Assessing a decade of progress on the right to food 2013, para. 39
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- Such framework laws may set targets for Governments to achieve, allocating responsibilities for taking action to different branches of government and coordinating their action. Typically, however, these framework laws are procedural in nature: they establish institutions and define a process, without prejudging the outcome, and leaving it to the actors involved to design a cross-sectoral right to food strategy. These framework laws ensure that such strategies are designed and continuously monitored through an inclusive and participatory process involving government and civil society organizations. They do so by establishing national food security councils, often linked to the highest level of government and including as members both representatives from relevant ministerial departments and civil society. It is not unusual for such councils to provide recommendations to an interministerial task force, ensuring intersectoral coordination across departments. In Brazil, the National Council on Food and Nutrition Security, two thirds of the members of which represent civil society organizations, has a consultative nature, addressing recommendations to the Inter-Ministry Chamber of Food and Nutrition Security, the interdepartmental task force in charge of implementing the national food security strategy (see A/HRC/13/33/Add.6, para. 14). In other countries, such as Guatemala and Ecuador, the body can make binding decisions (for Guatemala, see A/HRC/13/33/Add.4).
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/288, para. 39.
- Paragraph number
- 39
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