RECAP Prom. healthy diet & physical act.

Direct beneficiaries are government officials and representatives from civil society organizations and academic/research institutions on global level, as well as from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and 2-3 additional countries.

Ultimate beneficiaries are individuals and their households, communities and societies in programme countries which have poor diets and inadequate physical activity. As risk factors and NCDs prevalence are usually higher amongst the poor and disadvantaged, the proposed reforms are expected to benefit these groups.

1.     Strengthened regulatory and fiscal capacity of government officials, regulators, policymakers and civil society, to support the development, adoption, implementation, and monitoring of cost-effective regulatory and fiscal policy interventions to promote healthy diets and physical activity.

2.     Strengthened enabling environment to support the development, adoption, implementation and monitoring of cost-effective regulatory and fiscal measures, to promote healthy diets and physical activity through social mobilization and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

3.     Increased generation, use and dissemination of relevant evidence and research from different disciplines, to develop and implement effective regulatory and fiscal measures to promote healthy diets and physical activity.

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

Strengthened regulatory and fiscal capacity

·       Needs assessments on national legal and policy frameworks to promote healthy diets and physical activity were conducted in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and findings used in trainings, policy briefs, advocacy, and teaching materials.

·       Progress occurred in four policy domains:

a) Marketing Restrictions (Kenya, Tanzania Uganda, Sri Lanka; b) Nutrition Labelling (Kenya, Tanzania Uganda, Sri Lanka; c) Physical Activity (Tanzania, Uganda, Sri Lanka; d) Fiscal Policy (Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda).

Strengthened enabling environments

·       Multi-sectoral platforms were established in all participating countries.

·       Two multidisciplinary Academic Working Groups were established in East Africa and Bangladesh.

·       Two textbooks on Law and NCDs were developed, with a focus on healthy diets and physical activity.

Strengthened evidence-base

        Human Rights and Healthy Diets Research Support Initiative launched, to identify lessons across the Programme on the application of Human Rights-Based Approaches to promote the adoption of regulatory measures on healthy diets.