Improving food safety in the meat value chain

Projects are a direct and powerful means to strengthen food safety systems in developing and transition countries. We implement national, regional and global projects for the management and control of food safety and quality.

Projects focus on the needs identified and prioritized by countries, and may deal with many aspects of government food control programmes, industry food safety and quality programmes, scientific and academic activities, always encouraging broad stakeholder participation and multi-disciplinary approaches to assuring safe food.

Through careful design, in the context of a food chain approach to food safety, we seek to ensure that project activities contribute to national development activities, are implemented through strong partnership and national ownership, and that project impacts are sustainable through the monitoring and evaluation of objectives and outputs.

We work together with our colleagues in the FAO regional and sub-regional and national offices in project identification and formulation and subsequent implementation of projects.

A range of funding options exist for projects including government self-funding options, multiple or single donor funding arrangements, and international financing institutions and foundations.

For projects with a strong comparative advantage for FAO involvement and technical support, the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) exists – it is a unique, autonomous funding mechanism that allows us to respond quickly to government needs.