Capacity building and training
Many countries, especially developing ones, are often poorly equipped to respond
to existing and emerging food safety and quality problems. They frequently
lack technical and financial resources, an effective institutional framework,
trained manpower or sufficient information about the hazards and risks involved.
AGNS assists Member Countries in building capacity to strengthen national
food control programmes and activities through:
- Provision of policy advice on specific issues
- Institutional development and/or strengthening
- Development of guidelines and capacity building tools (including
manuals, guides, training software, case studies and other materials)
- Reviewing and updating of food legislation
- Harmonizing food regulations and standards with Codex and
other international regulatory instruments
- Training of technical and managerial staff in different food
safety related disciplines
Food safety and quality capacity building activities are generally undertaken
in-country upon the request of governments. In matters of interest to several
countries, AGNS organizes regional or sub-regional seminars and workshops in
cooperation with national and regional training institutions and FAO decentralized
offices in support of food control and food safety development programmes.
AGNS also implements national capacity building projects for the management
and control of food safety and quality. Projects are funded through the FAO
Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), by other donors or the country itself.
Projects focus on the needs of both the food industry and public sector institutions
with responsibilities for food safety, and deal with many aspects of food control,
industry food safety and quality programmes and broad stakeholder participation
in the regulation of food safety and quality.
Through careful project design, in the context of a food chain approach to
food safety, AGNS seeks to ensure that project activities complement other
national development activities and that project impacts are sustainable through
the monitoring and evaluation of objectives and outputs.
For more details on capacity building in food safety and quality, please email
us.
 Regional capacity building reports
Prepared for the most recent FAO/WHO Codex Regional Coordinating Committee
meetings, the following reports summarise capacity building activities undertaken
by FAO and WHO in each region:
See also
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Regional capacity building reports
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