We commend the Joint Working Group for streamlining and improving the body of the text. We make some suggested wording changes to the text below, clearly identifiable through “track changes”. We also make some specific comments in comments “boxes”. These suggestions:
Improve the clarity of the text
Link the document more fully to existing internationally agreed global initiatives and actions relevant to nutrition
Add in one further commitment (on advancing the development of data systems and metrics) and an additional “call” (for more official development assistance)
Call on the Joint Working Group to specify the timeframe for the Framework for Action (we propose 2015-2025) and the Decade of Action on Nutrition
Recommend that, for the purpose of monitoring and accountability, the ICN political outcomes document is ratified / adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 and that progress towards implementation of the political outcomes document on nutrition is reviewed by the UN General Assembly once every five years (ie in 2020 and 2025).
We remain disappointed that the commitments are insufficiently specific for the purposes of monitoring and accountability. But we recognise the importance of a Framework for Action, which we call on the JWG to draft and complete ready for adoption at the November meeting along with the Political Outcomes document. We recommend the Framework builds on the commitments made in the Outcomes Document, and is concise, focused and actionable.
We commend the Joint Working Group for streamlining and improving the body of the text. We make some suggested wording changes to the text below, clearly identifiable through “track changes”. We also make some specific comments in comments “boxes”. These suggestions:
We remain disappointed that the commitments are insufficiently specific for the purposes of monitoring and accountability. But we recognise the importance of a Framework for Action, which we call on the JWG to draft and complete ready for adoption at the November meeting along with the Political Outcomes document. We recommend the Framework builds on the commitments made in the Outcomes Document, and is concise, focused and actionable.
[See specific comments in the attachment, Ed.]