Countries enabled to strengthen equitable access to safe, healthy and sustainably produced foods through a One Health approach The Secretariat will support countries to:
identify, prevent and mitigate food safety and malnutrition risks, by developing evidence-informed policies, laws and tools, and providing advice on their implementation and on adoption of international standards, including in areas of food fortification and essential nutrition action;
establish/strengthen multisectoral mechanisms to support whole-of-government, Health in All Policies related to the One Health approach and optimal nutrition;
align national plans and policies to updated WHO global strategy for food safety 2022?2030;
improve nutrition and food safety risk analysis capacity, and implement risk communication activities;
strengthen capacity to develop and implement evidence-based food safety policies and legislation through risk-based and One Health approaches;
strengthen/expand foodborne disease surveillance systems, and strengthen the collation and use of national food contamination and consumption data;
strengthen participation in Codex Alimentarius;
develop risk-benefit assessment tools (from One Health initiatives);
promote and support availability, access and implementation of the One Health approach in 30 countries receiving intensified support;
train front-line health care providers in child feeding and malnutrition management (through the WHO Academy);
build capacity to implement and monitor nutrition policies on breast-milk substitutes marketing, food fortification, acute malnutrition management and nutrition service delivery in communities and health centres;
disseminate and support adoption of WHO tools to address conflicts of interest in food and nutrition policy formulation;
implement the Framework for the prevention, diagnosis and management of anaemia (to be published);
build the investment case for response to antimicrobial resistance across sectors;
strengthen national governance and regulators oversight of sales and the appropriate use of antimicrobials in all sectors;
promote integrated surveillance of antimicrobial resistance across sectors;
strengthen foodborne disease surveillance, data/information generation and use;
strengthen national food systems in priority countries, in line with the updated WHO global strategy for food safety 2022?2030 and based on baseline assessments; and
implement Codex text and standards for foodborne antimicrobial resistance.

In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will:
develop multisectoral platforms for data generation, analysis, communication and decision-making;
define global and national impact indicators and develop global monitoring mechanism;
contribute to the development of  international norms, standards and recommendations, to reduce antimicrobial resistance in the food chain, by providing evidence-based guidance to  the Codex Alimentarius Commission in collaboration with FAO;
develop an impact measurement framework for food safety and an associated monitoring mechanism;
develop a dashboard displaying countries? food safety capacities;
develop/customize risk assessment and management tools to improve national capacity for risk analysis;
update the estimates of the foodborne disease burden;
update relevant tools and guidelines using lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic;
provide strategic guidance and scientific recommendations for the development of food standards;
develop standards for public food procurement;
assess the status of food security and nutrition in countries;
update guidance on actions to prevent, diagnose and manage anaemia and micronutrient malnutrition;
develop implementation guidance for the prevention and management of acute malnutrition;
mainstream implementation of essential nutrition actions into national health policies and programmes;
develop a guideline about antimicrobial management cycle in the agro-food sector; and
update and support the implementation of the Critically important antimicrobials for human medicine. Safe and equitable societies through addressing health determinants