Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
Monitoring CFS effectiveness
CFS consistently encourages stakeholders to share their experiences and good practices in using and applying CFS-endorsed policy guidelines and recommendations, either through reporting unilaterally or through reporting the results of multistakeholder consultations. Guidance to hold multistakeholder consultations at national, regional and global levels is provided in the Terms of Reference to share experiences and good practices in applying CFS decisions and recommendations through organizing events at national, regional and global levels. Additional relevant information regarding monitoring the implementation of CFS policy products and other policy recommendations is available in this Draft Decision endorsed at CFS 44 in 2017.
Based on these decisions, over the past years the Committee organized various Global thematic Event (GTE) on major CFS policy products as well as monitor event on selected CFS policy recommendations.
These events aim to share experiences and take stock of the use and application of selected policy products by collecting inputs from key stakeholders. The calls for inputs are open for a few months in order to provide enough time to stakeholders to submit their experiences.
Current monitoring activities within the 2024-2027 MYPoW
The current strategic Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPoW) for the period 2024–2027 also planned for two upcoming GTEs on the use and application of selected CFS policy products:
The CFS Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises at CFS 53 in October 2025, also marking the 10th anniversary of the framework’s endorsement. More information is available here: “Use and application of the CFS framework for action for food security and nutrition in protracted crises (CFS-FFA)”.
Empowering Family farmers at CFS 54 in October 2026 as a contribution to the objectives of the 2019-2028 UN Decade of Family Farming and to monitor progress on the use and application of a number of relevant CFS policy recommendations: How to Increase Food Security and Smallholder-Sensitive Investments in Agriculture (2011); Investing in Smallholder Agriculture for Food Security and Nutrition (2013); Connecting Smallholders to Markets (2016); Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition (2022). In this regard, all CFS stakeholders are invited to contribute to this important CFS monitoring exercise by reading and filling in the template available in all UN languages (right hand column) and return it to the CFS Secretariat at [email protected] by 15 April 2026.
Additional background documentation such as the Secretariat’s analysis of the contributions received for each GTE and monitoring event is made available as information document under each CFS Plenary webpage.
Past monitoring exercises and event
Since 2006, the Committee organized a number of GTEs to take stock of the use and application of the:
- Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) at CFS 43 in October 2016
- Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (the Guidelines) at CFS 45 in October 2018
- Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crisis (CFS-FFA) at CFS 47 in October 2020;
- Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (RAI) at CFS 50 in October 2022
- Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (the Guidelines) at CFS 52 in October 2024 – in occasion on the 20th anniversary of the Right to Food Guidelines.
Moreover, a series of monitoring events were organized to take stock of the use and application of selected CFS policy recommendations, namely:
- three sets of CFS policy recommendations at CFS 46 (2019):
- two sets of policy recommendations at CFS 49 (2021)
- two sets of policy recommendations at CFS 51 (2023):
Key documents relevant for the monitoring exercise are provided below:
- CFS 45 (2018): Promoting Accountability and Sharing Best Practices with Draft Decision
- CFS 44 (2017: Monitoring the Implementation of CFS Main Policy Products and Other CFS Policy Recommendations - With Draft Decision
- CFS 44 (2017): Consultation Report for the Preparation of the Response to the CFS Evaluation with Draft Decision
- CFS 41 (2014): Towards a Framework for Monitoring CFS Decisions and Recommendations
- CFS 40 (2013): A Framework for monitoring CFS decisions and recommendations
- CFS 39 (2012): Monitoring Progress towards CFS Decisions and Recommendations of the Thirty-Seventh Session
- CFS 39 (2012): Information Note on Monitoring CFS Decisions and Recommendations
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