OIC/COMCEC/36-20/REP

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Takes note with appreciation

of the efforts of the SESRIC for organizing

training courses and seminars in tourism sector, particularly on halal tourism and

tourism statistics within the framework of SESRIC Capacity Building Programmes.

Increasing Productivity of Agriculture Sector and Sustaining Food

Security (Agenda Item: 9)

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Taking note with appreciation

of the convening of the 15

Meeting of the

Agriculture Working Group on September 17th, 2020 in a virtual-only format, with the

theme of “Good Governance for Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition in the OIC

Member Countries. The Committee welcomed its following policy recommendations;



Developing a comprehensive national food security and nutrition strategy and/or

strengthening the existing food security policies and strategies to extend their

reach and inclusiveness so that everyone can reap the benefits, including the

poorest and the most vulnerable to achieve food security and nutrition for all.



Establishing a high level national coordination mechanism or committee (i.e. an

inter-ministerial, presidential council or committee) for ensuring a healthy and

sustainable multi-stakeholder dialogue for the effective coordination of all

governmental and non-governmental stakeholders in the processes of policy

formulation, implementation, and monitoring; and endowing it with significant

execution power and sufficient human and financial resources.



Improving the coordination and coherence of policy actions on food security and

nutrition in turbulent times (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic) at all levels ranging from

subnational to national; sub-regional to regional, and bilateral, OIC-level to

finally global level.



Designing a detailed and transparent implementation plan for the national and

subnational tasks and equipping the fieldwork personnel with relevant know-how

and allocating sufficient financial resources to each and every step of the

implementation process.



Establishing an online platform/food information systems (e.g. vulnerability

atlas, food security fora) that ideally transmits real-time information on

monitoring food security and nutrition governance with a view to generating

credible data and statistics and formulating evidence-based policies



Promoting capacity building and knowledge/experience sharing among the OIC

Member Countries in the four levels of good governance of food security and

nutrition (i.e. (i) Policy and Legal Framework (ii) Coordination and Coherence

(iii) Implementation, and (iv) Information-Monitoring-Evaluation.)

(Ref: Document Code OIC/COMCEC/……)

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Calls upon

the Member States which have registered to the COMCEC Agriculture

Working Group to actively participate in the 16

Meeting of the COMCEC Agriculture

Working Group to be held with the theme of “How to Ensure the Sustainability of Food

Supply Chains in Turbulent Times: The Case of COVID-19”, in 2021.

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Takes note with appreciation of

the convening of The COMCEC Agriculture