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This proposed webinar, “Taking Stock: Wins, Gaps, and the Road Ahead for Healthy Food Policy in the Caribbean” in collaboration with PAHO, CARPHA, and the OECS Commission provides a timely opportunity to highlight policy progress, share lessons learned, and strengthen collective efforts toward regional NCD prevention and control.
The objectives of the webinar are to:
- Examine progress and key challenges in the implementation of fiscal policies including sweetened beverage (SB) taxes and subsidies across the Caribbean
- Identify lessons learned from school nutrition policy development and implementation, including navigating engagement with the private sector (with an emphasis on health neutral/health promoting companies)
- Highlight challenges, progress and opportunities in other key food policy areas including: TFA regulation; FOPWL, marketing of breast milk substitutes and marketing to children.
- Reflect on approaches and tools to address the cross cutting challenge of undue influence and conflict of interest in food policy implementation
- Explore actionable recommendations to accelerate policy progress, including the application of innovative research approaches and findings.