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Book (stand-alone)Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets
Step 2: Shaping the enabling environment
2021Also available in:
No results found.This is the second of three background papers produced to inform the ‘Everyone Around the Table: FAO/GAIN Roundtable with Private Sector on Healthy Diets’ virtual roundtable series scheduled for mid-2020. While the range of topics discussed is relevant to all countries, where possible a greater focus has been given to low- and middle-income country contexts. STEP 2 (this paper) sets out some channels to advance this agenda by improving the enabling environment – the policies, incentives, rules and regulations that shape behaviours (and enable good practice). Though governments lead in this area, there are clear responsibilities for all stakeholders. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFinancial inclusion in rural territories
The Development Financing Center of the MANORCHO inter-communal association in Honduras: An innovative credit model
2020Also available in:
Over the past two decades, the Honduras country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has made efforts to design an effective rural financial system that supports the development of small producers and rural businesses. Since 2015, after a successful experience with the development of a network of more than 900 savings and loan cooperatives, it has supported the design and implementation of a new financing model: Development Financing Centers (CFD in Spanish). The CFD is a mechanism for the financial inclusion of rural families, which because of their poverty or structural situation are not eligible to access private and government financial systems. It has three notable features: first, it is based on the cooperation of public and private actors – local governments, producer organizations, civil society organizations (NGOs), private companies, public institutions, and aid agencies – that contribute resources to a fund that provides solidarity financing; second, it considers financing as a tool for development and, therefore, its grant application process is guided by territorial development strategies agreed by the actors involved; and, third, its space of action is inter-communal (association of municipalities), with a territorial and political platform that constitutes a powerful collaborative work space. The MANORCHO CFD, having completed four years of operation, has managed to gather more than 40 contributing partners and work with 90 producer organizations that bring together about 2 200 families, of which 500 have received financing. This model has been approved by the national government of Honduras, which is already injecting economic resources into the fund. Currently, work is being done on capacity development at the central level to replicate the model in other inter-communal associations in the country. -
Book (stand-alone)Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets
Step 3: Going to scale
2021Also available in:
No results found.This paper, STEP 3, is the third of three background papers produced to inform the ‘Everyone Around the Table: FAO/GAIN Roundtable with Private Sector on Healthy Diets’ series of virtual roundtables which took place in July 2020. As in STEP 1 and STEP 2, the topics covered are relevant to all regions, but where possible a greater focus has been given to low- and middle-income countries. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are again a focus, given their role in the food systems of these regions (see STEP 1 for more detail), including their common presence in the food environments of many people living in poverty. STEP 3 (this paper) looks more closely at what it means to go to scale with healthy diets and better nutrition, providing examples and reflections for all stakeholders to consider.
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