The Codex Trust Fund supports countries to build strong, solid and sustainable national capacity to participate effectively in Codex standard setting.
Between 2004 and 2015, the FAO/WHO Project and Fund for Enhanced Participation in Codex (Codex Trust Fund, CTF) supported countries to boost their participation in the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Building on the success of the first Codex Trust Fund, FAO and WHO then launched a successor initiative to the Codex Trust Fund (CTF2) in January 2016, which aimed at improved effectiveness of participation in Codex standard setting.
CTF2 initiated a total of 43 projects involving 62 countries, which saw improved in-country capacities and policy-level awareness of Codex and Codex processes. This awareness translated into greater participation by low- and middle-income countries in the work of Codex committees, including in the development of work proposals, in developing and presenting national positions on standards development, and in submitting the data that is crucial to the development of standards that will work for all.
This also benefitted the wider Codex community, global trade and food safety standards for businesses and consumers around the world.
The Codex Trust Fund was fully reliant on donor funding.
The Codex Trust Fund repository
The CTF repository provides access to relevant resource material and products that have been officially shared by CTF2 beneficiary countries to serve as examples and inspiration to countries aiming to develop similar products to strengthen components of their national Codex system.
Documents included in the repository have been officially cleared by the respective governments to be shared on the Codex Trust Fund website. The repository organizes available products according to their relevance to the three core elements of national Codex systems.
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Stories
Codex Trust Fund, country story: Maldives
Codex Trust Fund, country story: Burkina Faso
Codex Trust Fund country story: Bhutan, India & Nepal
Codex Trust Fund, country story: Ghana
Codex Trust Fund, country story: Senegal
Publications
FAO/WHO Diagnostic tool for assessing status of national Codex programmes
Codex Trust Fund year in review – 2018
Codex and the Sustainable Development Goals
News about the Codex Trust Fund
CTF / Two South Sudanese workshops address food safety challenges and national Codex structures
In an effort to create awareness among the high-level decision and policy makers in the country, the Republic of South Sudan organized a National Workshop on Advocacy and dissemination of food safety policy briefs on 23 September 2025. On 24 September, a National stakeholders Consultation Workshop on Codex priority Standards and establishment of National Codex Mirror committees was also convened. Both workshps were convened in Juba, Republic of South Sudan, with support from the Codex Trust Fund.
The workshops were officially opened by Hon. Gloria Nyoka Executive Director for South Sudan National Bureau of Standards and Rita Tulba, the Director General for Quality Control at South Sudan Drug and Food Authority, who also double as the Chairperson for the National Codex Committee.
The events brought together Members of Parliament, members from academia, senior government officials from the ministries of trade and industry, health, agriculture and food security, livestock and fisheries, South Sudan Drug and Food Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, senior officials from the South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS), along with country representatives from FAO. In addition to this, there were also participants from the Manufacturers Association of South Sudan, South Sudan Agricultural producers Union, consumer protection organization, the Food Safety Association of South Sudan and media houses.
The 23 September workshop saw key recommendations adopted to address food safety challenges facing the Republic of South Sudan, and on 24 September, key recommendations were adopted to restructure and activate both National Codex committee and the National Codex Mirror committees.
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Caption: The technical officials who participated in the National Stakeholders Consultation Workshop on Codex priority Standards and establishment of National Codex Mirror committees on 24 September 2025, Juba, South Sudan.
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