Food, Nutrition and Public Health Programme

Projects Under Food, Nutrition and Public Health Programme

Support to Eliminate (industrially produced) Trans fats Project (STEP)

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Tackling the Silent Killer: Coalition for TFAs Elimination in Pakistan

Title	Details
Project Title	Tackling the Silent Killer: Coalition for TFAs Elimination in Pakistan
Project Duration:	One year (June 2023 – May 2024)
Project Objectives:	1. In collaboration with advocacy partners, to build consensus among key decision makers (National) for the development and adoption of best practice TFA limit regulation. 2. Build strong coalition of individuals, civil society organizations and other stakeholders to strategize and influence decision makers to pass TFA regulations. 3. Collaborate with GHAI to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to monitor and counter industry/front groups to create an enabling environment for TFA regulation in Pakistan.
Geographic Focus:	National
Target Group and beneficiaries:	CSOs, public health experts and consumers
Project Details:	Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has formulated a project in June 2023, titled “Tackling the Silent Killer: Coalition for TFAs Elimination in Pakistan”. The purpose of this one-year project is to achieve a mandatory national limit of 2 grams of industrially produced trans fatty acids (TFA) per 100 grams of total fat in all foods in Pakistan. The project will engage both government and civil society organizations (CSOs) to build consensus for the development and adoption of best practice trans fatty acids (TFA) limit regulation, influence decision makers to pass TFA regulations, and monitor and counter industry/front groups to create an enabling environment for TFA regulation in Pakistan.

Journalists Training Sessions on TFA (August 2023 onward)

Batch	Announcement Date	Application Deadline	City	Training Date	No. of Participants	Press Release	Media Coverage
1	1^st September	25^th September	Islamabad	7 the November	24	Download
2	9^th August	15^th August	Islamabad	30^th August	25	Download	Click to View All

Other Press Releases & Media Coverages

Date	Title	Media Coverage
January 06, 2024	CPDI Urges Prime Minister, President, and Secretary Health to Ban Unhealthy Food and Promote Healthier Options in Public Procurements	Daily Times – The Express Tribune

Advocacy Messages

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Covid 19 Response (Completed)

Title	Details
Project Title	Civil Society Engagement for Effective COVID-19 Response
Duration	February 2021 – January 2022
Objectives	a) To assess the impact of the government's policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic; b) To use the findings of the assessment to inform and enrich debate among CSOs for developing appropriate recommendations and government engagement strategy; and c) To publicise civil society recommendations to inform stakeholders and facilitate meetings among CSOs and government institutions for discussing improved policy response to the COVID-19.
Geographic Focus	Pakistan
Target Groups and beneficiaries	CSOs, Marginalized / vulnerable communities, Health Practitioners, COVID-19 patients and cured and National / Provincial legislator’s/policy makers.
Description	Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has initiated a project, with the financial support from the Commonwealth Foundation, in February 2021, titled “Civil Society Engagement for Effective COVID-19 Response” to assess the government COVID-19 response and to generate a debate by engaging Civil Society for facilitating the government in formulation of a feasible strategy to better cope with the pandemic crisis. The project is supposed to help formulate improved and updated SOPs for COVID-19 patients, inclusive policies for preventing, diagnosing, or treating COVID-19 patients belonging to vulnerable and marginalised groups. Increased budgetary allocations for health sector, especially for COVID-19 response and identification of loopholes in budget utilization. Moreover, the project seeks to improve coordination between CSOs and government agencies, for devising a sustainable feedback mechanisms and consequently for flooring convenient Government's social protection programs for vulnerable groups as well.