National Food Policy Project:

Strengthening the enabling environment for

food systems to achieve Zero Hunger
Policy Dialogue

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National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Policy Dialogue

08 June 2022 I The Hive Hotel and Convention Center

National Anthem
Opening Prayer
Acknowledgement of
participants
Expectation setting
TECHNICAL SESSION DIALOGUES OUTPUT
SUMMARY
STRENGTHS AREAS TO STRENGTHEN AREAS TO EXPLORE
Policy Dialogue Objectives
1. Arrive at a common understanding on the nutrition-sensitive food
systems framework and the Zero Hunger vision;

1. Explore and identify enabling and disabling factors in food

systems to achieve Zero Hunger;

1. Discuss and identify opportunities for integration in key policies,

programs and activities, and anticipate potential challenges and
solutions; and

1. Prepare for developing a strategic plan to strengthen the

enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger.
Dialogue Agenda
○ Technical session on food systems and their
enabling environment
○ Dialogue 1: Visioning and food journey mapping
○ Dialogue 2: Identifying facilitating and hindering
factors in food systems
○ Synthesis and Next steps
Overview of the National
Food Policy
Assistant Secretary Ricky dela Torre
Office of the Cabinet Secretary
What we do
ImagineLaw is a public interest law organization that develops and
advocates for evidence-driven policy solutions to enable all people to live
healthy and meaningful lives.

What we believe in
We believe that the law is a valuable tool in achieving meaningful social
change. Our goal is to find and carry out imaginative public policy solutions
to persistent social problems through independent research and dialogue
and collaboration with communities, governments, and civil society.
Who we are

Atty. Joan dela Cruz

Policy Associate
joan@imaginelaw.ph

Ms. Jeline Corpuz, RND, MSPH

Nutrition Associate
jeline@imaginelaw.ph

Atty. Ma-Anne Rosales-Sto. Domingo

Project Manager
maanne@imaginelaw.ph
Strengthening the enabling environment
for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger
Enabling environment for food systems
Enabling environment for food systems

National Food Policy

Enabling environment for food systems

Enabling environment

National Food Policy

 Mandate and rule-
making authority of lead
agency/ies

Enabling environment for food systems Governance structure

and coordination
mechanisms

Capacity and resources

of key implementers
Enabling environment
Policy and regulatory
environment

National Food Policy

Project methodology

Legal & Food Systems Policy Dialogue Multi-sectoral Strategic

Assessment Planning
Report-back:
Validation Workshop Key Insights
ImagineLaw
Looking Back:
Key Findings during validation workshop
• NFP: Roadmap to Zero Hunger
○ Provides for the strategic plan to achieve Zero Hunger
○ “Whole of government, whole of nation” approach
○ Vertical and horizontal integration via series of
consultations and regular coordination meetings

• On-going alignment of PAPs

• Zero-Hunger Convergence Budgeting Process
• Updating and alignment with global targets and action
points through the UN Food Systems Summit
Considerations for moving forward
• Connecting the national food policy to the local level
○ National - Regional - Local
○ Implementation of the Mandanas ruling

• Exploring and strengthening institutional capacities

○ Mandate
○ Governance structure and coordination mechanisms
○ Capacities and resources
○ Policy and regulatory environment

• Identifying entry points for strengthening the enabling environment

○ Convergence budgeting process
○ Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP)
National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Technical session: Food Systems and their Enabling
Environments
Outline
• Food systems
• Systems thinking
• Nutrition-sensitive food systems framework

• Enabling environments

• Enabling environment in achieving zero hunger

• Mandate and rule-making authority of lead agency/ies
• Governance structure and coordination mechanisms
• Capacity and resources of key implementers
• Policy and regulatory environment
What did you eat for
breakfast this morning?
Where do you think it was
from? Grown?
Why does it matter where it
came from?
The egg supply chain, from farm to table

Source: https://ew-nutrition.com/us/how-producers-keep-the-egg-supply-chain-going-amid-covid-19/
Food
• Any substance that provides nutrients
for life and growth
System
• a regularly interacting or interdependent
group of items forming a unified whole
(Merriam Webster)
• can be described as a composition of
multiple dependent elements that
interacts with each other and produces
an outcome in totality (Backlund, 2000)

Photo source: https://www.naesys.com/system-integration.html

System
• a regularly interacting or interdependent
group of items forming a unified whole
(Merriam Webster)
• can be described as a composition of
multiple dependent elements that interacts
with each other and produces an outcome in
totality (Backlund, 2000)

Photo source: https://www.naesys.com/system-integration.html

Food System
“gathers all the elements (environment, people, inputs, processes,
infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production,
processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, and the
output of these activities, including socio-economic and environmental
outcomes”

https://www.fao.org/3/i7846e/i7846e.pdf
High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition (2017)
Food System
“gathers all the elements (environment, people, inputs, processes,
infrastructures, institutions, etc.) and activities that relate to the production,
processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, and the
output of these activities, including socio-economic and environmental
outcomes”

https://www.fao.org/3/i7846e/i7846e.pdf
High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition (2017)
https://www.fao.org/3/i7846e/i7846e.pdf
High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition (2017)
Food System Framework
Food Journey

Batangas Zambales

Benguet
Nueva Ecija
 Imports
Tinolang Manok
Production

Retail and
Transport and
marketing
distribution

Processing and
packaging

Consumption Consumer behavior

Consumption
Food system is complex
Systems Thinking

Originated in 1996 by Dr.Eric Schwarz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Extended in 1998, including items from the TheStory of Philosophy by Will Durant (1933).
Elaborated in 2000-2001 from many sources for the International Institute for General Systems Studies. Currently a research project of the IIGSS.
http://eyeonsociety.co.uk/resources/systemsGenealogy.pdf
 FAO
Nutrition-sensitive
agriculture and
food systems
Conceptual framework on the Philippine Pathway to Inclusive
and Sustainable Food System
Linkage between the
FAO nutrition-
sensitive agriculture
and food system
framework and the
Philippines food
system
transformation
pathway conceptual
framework
 KRA 2 (ensure available and affordable food)

KRA 2 and KRA 4 (secure food accessibility and

safety)

KRA 3 (secure nutrition adequacy) and KRA 4

KRA 1 (policies and regulations), KRA 5

(sustainable food symptoms, resiliency and
food stability for emergency) and KRA 6
(information and education and people
participation)
Enabling environment for food systems
Enabling environment for food systems

National Food Policy

Enabling environment for food systems

Enabling environment

National Food Policy

 Mandate and rule-
making authority of lead
agency/ies

Enabling environment for food systems Governance structure

and coordination
mechanisms

Capacity and resources

of key implementers
Enabling environment
Policy and regulatory
environment

National Food Policy

 Imports
Tinolang Manok
Production

Retail and
Transport and
marketing
distribution

Processing and
packaging

Consumption Consumer behavior

Consumption
Actors:
Mandate and rule-making authority of
• Poultry farmers – private lead agency/ies
• Beneficiaries of LGUS ng
poultry
• Local farmers with LGUs Governance structure and coordination
• LGUs
mechanisms
• DA
Resources:
• Budget for incentives
• Manpower Capacity and resources of key
implementers

Where government
intervenes:
• Licensing
• Programs for
diversification Policy and regulatory environment
• Subsidies
• Land use
IPBES-Food
Why does it matter where
our food came from?
National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Health Break

We will see you in 10 minutes (10:55 a.m.). Thank you!

National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Dialogue 1: Visioning and food journey
Dialogue 1 mechanics
● The participants will be divided into three groups
to be co-facilitated by NNC and ImagineLaw.
Groups are color-coded.

● The dialogue is composed of two parts: (a) the

group exercise; and (b) the feedback session.
Dialogue 1 mechanics
● The group exercise (Part 1) is composed of a visioning
exercise (Part 1.A) (20 mins) and a food journey (Part
1.B) (20 minutes after lunch).

● The worksheets for both exercises are posted around

the hall for your reference. Each participant will be
asked to write keywords/phrases to answer the guide
questions.

● After everyone pitches in, the facilitators will assist the

group to synthesize their answers into a coherent
message. The visioning exercise should take around 15-
20 minutes.
Dialogue 1.A: Visioning (SAMPLE)
VISION: A strong enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger, through implementation of the National Food Policy.

Describe a Philippines with
Zero Hunger.
Describe a strong
governance system for
the NFP.
Identify the capacities Identify policies,
and resources needed to regulations or programs
implement your role in your agency needs to
the NFP. develop/issue/
strengthen to implement
the NFP?

Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis

Dialogue 1.A: Visioning (SAMPLE)
VISION: A strong enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger, through implementation of the National Food Policy.

Describe a Philippines with Describe a strong Identify the capacities Identify policies,
Zero Hunger. governance system for and resources needed to regulations or programs
the NFP. implement your role in your agency needs to
the NFP. develop/issue/
sustainable food
production strong legal strengthen to implement
mandate adequate budget the NFP?
and human
food for all resources DOH: Healthy
with M&E communities AO
framework to
targets nutritionally- technical
monitor and
vulnerable populations knowledge on
evaluate Inter-agency JAO on
food systems
implementation food procurement

Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis

Sustainable food production all A strong governance system is Agencies need adequate funding, [List of potential integrated
year round for all Filipinos, one that is anchored on a strong dedicated human resources, and policies, regulations or programs]
especially the most nutritionally legal mandate and with an technical capacity building on
vulnerable. established M&E framework. food systems.
Dialogue 1 mechanics
● The groups will have 20 minutes to visit their partner
group’s work station and have the opportunity to
comment and react on their partner group’s output. The
facilitator-reporter will remain in their own group’s
workstation to provide participants from the reactor group
an overview of their work.

● The reactor group will have color-coded meta-cards and

reaction stickers to post on their partner group’s output to
indicate areas or alignment/agreement or disagreement,
or post questions.
Dialogue 1.A: Visioning (FEEDBACK SAMPLE)
VISION: A strong enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger, through implementation of the National Food Policy.

Describe a Philippines with Describe a strong Identify the capacities Identify policies,
Zero Hunger. governance system for and resources needed to regulations or programs
the NFP. implement your role in your agency needs to
the NFP. develop/issue/
sustainable food
production strong legal Agree strengthen to implement
mandate adequate budget ! the NFP?
and human
food for all resources DOH: Healthy
Is this with M&E communities AO
indispensable? framework to
targets nutritionally- technical
monitor and
vulnerable populations knowledge on
evaluate Inter-agency JAO on
food systems
implementation We can help food procurement
with this.
Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis Synthesis
Sustainable food production all A strong governance system is Agencies need adequate funding, [List of potential integrated
year round for all Filipinos, one that is anchored on a strong dedicated human resources, and policies, regulations or programs]
especially the most nutritionally legal mandate and with an technical capacity building on
vulnerable. established M&E framework. food systems.
Dialogue 1 mechanics
● For the Food Journey, the groups will trace the
journey that food takes from food production to
consumption, and disposal.

● In every stage of the food’s “journey,” participants

will be asked to identify the key actors, both public
and private, resources and spaces where
government intervenes. To answer this worksheet,
each group member will be given metacards to
write their answers. The exercise should take
around 30-35 minutes.
 Imports
Staple Filipino Food: Adobong Manok
Production

Retail and
marketing

Processing and
packaging
Transport

Consumption Consumer behavior

Consumption
 Imports
Production
Staple Filipino Food: Galunggong at Ginisang Kalabasa

Retail and
marketing

Processing and
packaging
Transport

Consumption Consumer behavior

Consumptio
Consumption
n
 Processed Food: Cheeseburger and Fries
Imports

Transport and
distribution

Production

Processing and
packaging

Marketing

Storage

Consumptio
n
Sample key actors
Sample resources and spaces for
government intervention
Actors:
•
•
Poultry farmers – private
Mandate and rule-making authority of
lead agency/ies Sample
worksheet
Beneficiaries of LGUS ng
poultry
• Local farmers with LGUs Governance structure and coordination
• LGUs
mechanisms
• DA
Resources:
• Budget for incentives
• Manpower Capacity and resources of key
implementers

Where government
intervenes:
• Licensing
• Programs for
diversification Policy and regulatory environment
• Subsidies
• Land use
Dialogue mechanics
● For the feedback session (Part 2), each group will be
assigned a reactor group.

Original group Reactor group

Group 1 Group 3
Group 2 Group 1
Group 3 Group 2
National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Lunch Break

We will see you in an hour. Thank you!

National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Dialogue 2: Identifying facilitating and hindering factors in the
enabling environment
Dialogue 2 mechanics
● The participants will work with the same groups to
be co-facilitated by NNC and ImagineLaw.

● The 2nd dialogue is also composed of two parts: (a)

the group exercise; and (b) the feedback session.
The groups will follow the same process of using
metacards and reviewing their partner group’s
work.
Dialogue 2 mechanics
● In the group exercise participants will be asked to
identify the facilitating and hindering factors in the
enabling environments for food systems to achieve
Zero Hunger.

● The groups will focus on four components of the

enabling environment:
○ Legal mandate and rule-making authority of the lead
agency/ies
○ Governance structures and coordination mechanisms
○ Policy and regulatory environment
○ Capacity and resources of key implementers
Dialogue 2: Enabling Environment (Sample)
VISION: A strong enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger, through implementation of the National Food Policy.

A Philippines with Zero A strong governance Adequate capacities and Strong policies,
Hunger system for the NFP resources needed to regulations or programs
implement the NFP. o implement the NFP
Facilitating Facilitating Facilitating Facilitating

Hindering Hindering Hindering Hindering

Dialogue 2: Enabling Environment (Sample)
VISION: A strong enabling environment for food systems to achieve Zero Hunger, through implementation of the National Food Policy.

A Philippines with Zero A strong governance Adequate capacities and Strong policies,
Hunger system for the NFP resources needed to regulations or programs
implement the NFP. to implement the NFP
Facilitating Facilitating Facilitating Facilitating

strong food strong coordination opportunities brought One DA Initiative and

policies in place through the IATF-ZH about by Convergence other existing policies and
budgeting process programs

Hindering Hindering Hindering Hindering

local provisional nature of the lack of manpower Enabling laws supporting

contextualization task force the implementation of the
of national plan NFP need to align with
NFP’s nutrition-sensitive
direction
Dialogue mechanics
● For the feedback session, each group will visit their partner
groups and provide the same feedback. This time, each groups
will visit the other two groups. Reactor groups will have 15
minutes to visit each group in this order:

Reporting group Reactor group

Group 1 Group 2 and 3
Group 2 Group 3 and 1
Group 3 Group 1 and 2

Afterwhich, everyone will go back to the plenary

National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Health Break

We will see you in 15 minutes. Thank you!

National Food Policy Project:
Strengthening the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger
Synthesis and Next steps
DIALOGUE 1: SYNTHESIS AND KEY INSIGHTS
DIALOGUE 1.A. VISIONING DIALOGUE 1.B. FOOD JOURNEY KEY TAKEAWAYS

● What is our vision of a ● Who are the key actors in ● What are your key insights
Philippines with Zero the food journey? from the dialogues?
Hunger?
● What are the resources and ● What are opportunities you
● What does a strong capacities involved in the have identified?
governance mechanism food journey?
look like? ● What are potential
● What are the spaces or challenges that you
● What are capacities and opportunities for anticipate?
resources needed to government intervention?
implement the NFP?

● What are policies,

regulations or programs
needed to implement the
NFP?
DIALOGUE 2: SYNTHESIS AND KEY INSIGHTS
DIALOGUE 2. ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
● What factors strengthen the
enabling environment for food
systems to achieve Zero Hunger?
● What factors weaken the enabling
environment for food systems to
achieve Zero Hunger?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
● What are your key insights from
the dialogue?
● What are potential entry points
you have identified?
● What are priorities have you
identified?
SUMMARY
STRENGTHS AREAS TO STRENGTHEN AREAS TO EXPLORE
Next steps
July 2022 (tentative): Strategic Planning (in-person)
Sessions Objectives
Workshop 1: Identifying objectives Using the affecting factors, opportunities and challenges identified during the policy
and key strategies to strengthen the dialogue, identify objectives, strategies and activities to strengthen the enabling
enabling environment environment

Workshop 2: Identifying activities to
strengthen the enabling
environment
Using the affecting factors, opportunities and challenges identified during the policy
dialogue:
● To identify objectives, strategies and activities to strengthen the enabling
environment
● To define roles and resources of each actor that may be allotted for achieving the
objectives
● To identify opportunities for integration in key policies, programs and activities, and
potential challenges and solutions

Workshop 3: Identifying areas for ● To identify opportunities for collaboration among agencies in key activities
collaboration and anticipating ● To identify and anticipate potential challenges and plan mitigating strategies
challenges
Closing Remarks
Assistant Secretary and Executive Director Dr. Azucena Dayanghirang
National Nutrition Council
Thank you and have a good day!
We look forward to working with you.