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.
Codex Trust Fund
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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 / New success story from the Maldives shows a strengthened national food safety system
A new Success Story published by WHO and FAO demonstrates how support from the Codex Trust Fund (CTF) has helped the Maldives strengthen its national food safety system and improve its effective participation in Codex work. Through the project, the country enhanced coordination among key national stakeholders, improved awareness of Codex standards, and reinforced technical capacity to contribute to international food standard-setting processes.
A key achievement highlighted in the country story was the adoption of the Maldives’ first Food Safety Act, providing a stronger legal foundation for food control and consumer protection. The project also supported training and advocacy activities that enabled officials and experts to engage more confidently in Codex committees and discussions.
Khalisa Mohammed, Codex Contact Point for Maldives, says that “the CTF project has paved the way for us to study countries’ food safety systems, which will facilitate trade as well as assuring us that our foods are safe from at least those countries that are following the Codex standards.”
Download the story here
https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd8582en
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