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Capacity Building and Technical Assistance; New Approaches and Building Alliances

Year of publication 2002

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The inclusion of Capacity Building as one of the major themes of this Global Forum Meeting reflects both the recognition of the urgent need for Capacity Building in the area of food safety as well as the concern of multilateral institutions and, hopefully, of developed countries, that serious attempts should be put into place for this purpose. Most of the problems and issues were highlighted in the excellent paper presented by Dr. Rios at the Melbourne Conference in October, 1999. Although much progress has been made, the basic problems remain. This paper would, therefore, seek to reiterate many of the things mentioned therein and also try to re-emphasize the context, constraints and the ground realities within which Capacity Building efforts have to be made and thereby try to introduce pragmatic and feasible possibilities in this direction. An attempt has been made to address three issues separately, although necessarily there will be an overlap: national food safety systems (whi ch is the most important area); Codex matters, and bilateral technical assistance (SPS or otherwise).

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Language English

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