|
|
A win-win Partnership
FAO believes strengthened cooperation with Civil Society:
- enhances the legitimacy, transparency and equity of policy- and decision-making, ensuring that it takes into consideration the interests of all sectors of society and has their support;
- gives a voice to stakeholders particularly the world's poor and ensures that their views and opinions are taken into account;
- offers substantive contributions to FAO's activities;
- increases the effectiveness of FAO field projects and programmes by building on civil society experience in participatory approaches, poverty alleviation and sustainable agriculture, as well as their capacity to act quickly and flexibly to target the most vulnerable groups;
- builds public support and political will to attain food security objectives;
- makes FAO's work better known to a wider public.
For Civil Society cooperation with FAO can provide:
- technical and institutional support;
- promotion and scaling-up of succesful approaches developed by and beneficial to the poor;
- improvements in access to and sharing of information;
- an increase in access to government officials and decision-makers;
- greater influence on public policy, service delivery, finances and human resurces development;
- improved mobilization of resources for food security.
|
|
|
CSOs play a fundamental role in the design, negotiation, development and implementation of major global initiatives. In partnership with FAO, CSOs worked on the Rotterdam Convention regulating hazardous chemicals and pesticides in agriculture, the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, and the recently ratified International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
|
|
