Global RECAP

Global RECAP

Global regulatory and fiscal capacity building on healthy diets and physical activity

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The Global RECAP Programme

The Global RECAP: Global Regulatory and Fiscal Capacity Building Programme is a collaborative project between the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the European Union (and during Phase I the OPEC Fund for International Development), in coordination with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

The rationale and logic for Global RECAP can be summarized as follows:

  1. If capacity of government officials, regulators, policy makers, academia and CSOs to understand, develop and implement regulatory and fiscal measures that promote healthy diets and physical activity is strengthened; and
  2. If an enabling environment is strengthened to support the needed reforms through social mobilization and multi-stakeholder collaboration; and
  3. If evidence-based research is available/produced to inform and support decision making,
then regulatory and fiscal frameworks will be strengthened to promote healthy diets and physical activity and create enabling environments for healthier choices, which will ultimately contribute to decreasing the prevalence of NCDs, overweight and obesity.

A. Programme Purpose

To promote healthy lives and well-being for all, including poor and vulnerable people, through strengthened regulatory and fiscal measures that promote and create conducive environments for healthy diets and physical activity.

B. Programme impact goal

Evidence-based regulatory and fiscal measures designed to promote healthy diet and increase physical activity for the prevention of NCDs are implemented, revised and adjusted as needed, including appropriate feedback and accountability mechanisms.

C. Programme outcomes

  1. Strengthened capacity of government officials, regulators, policymakers, academia and civil society to understand, develop and implement (as appropriate) regulatory and fiscal measures that promote healthy diets and physical activity.
  2. Strengthened enabling environment on healthy diets and physical activity through national and international collaboration among policy makers, regulatory bodies, lawyers, public health and nutrition experts, civil society actors, academics, funders and communities.
  3. Increased generation and use of relevant evidence and research from different disciplines to develop and implement effective regulatory and fiscal measures to promote healthy diets and physical activity.

These outcomes will be achieved through the collaborative delivery of complementary components of:

  1. Capacity building activities led by WHO
  2. Social mobilization activities led by IDLO
  3. Research activities to support policy reform, under the IDRC research program and other research supported by IDLO and WHO.

D. Programme policy focus areas

  • Restriction on marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children
  • Fiscal policies for diet, in particular effective sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation
  • Nutrition labelling, including front-of-pack labelling
  • Reformulation of food products to contain less sodium, sugars and fats
  • Physical activity promotion

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    E. Participating Countries

    Bangladesh, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda.

     

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