March 9, 2022
The Regional Advisory Group are the regional extension of the Advisory Group for the Global Strategic Framework in support of the implementation of the SSF Guidelines (SSF-GSF), whose establishment was endorsed by COFI in 2016 to boost the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. In that occasion, the IPC FWG was appointed as global Advisory Group, thanks to the key role it played in the drafting and endorsement of the SSF Guidelines back in 2014. In 2019, the Advisory Group expressed the willingness to bring the implementation process of the SSF Guidelines closer to the regional realities, where the governments are less incline to start a policy convergence process, and where the CSOs networks have more difficulties in coordinating themselves and raise their voice. For these reasons, in 2020, IPC Secretariat and the IPC Working Group on Fisheries networks began to set up of the Regional Advisory Groups. These regional platforms were established following the system used by the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM4CFS), as it represents the organizational will of CSOs and mirrored the FAO regional division, thus facilitating the interaction with the FAO regional officers and, consequently, the participation of the Regional AGs in the FAO Regional Conferences, the most important regional policy processes concerning food and nutrition. Up until few weeks ago, only the Regional AGs in Africa and Asia and the Pacific were fully established and operative, but on February 8th 2022 the newly appointed members of the Regional Advisory Group in Latin America and Caribbean met for the first time and defined the first steps of the RAG work in the region.
Last virtual meeting screenshot