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(b)
Multisectoral and inclusive, ensuring the coordination amongst Government
ministries and institutions and allowing for meaningful participation of civil society in their
formulation and monitoring;
(c)
Adequately funded.
(d)
Monitored also by national courts and national human rights institutions as
well as through social audits and community-based monitoring at the local level.
2.
Human Rights Impact Assessments
To ensure consistency between domestic policies aimed at the full realization of the right to
food and external policies in the areas of trade, investment, development and humanitarian
aid, States should establish mechanisms that ensure that the right to food is fully taken into
account in those policies. The Special Rapporteur has presented Guiding Principles on
Human Rights Impact Assessments, based on a range of consultations with governmental
and non-governmental actors, which provide guidance as to how to conduct such
assessments, both ex-ante and ex-post (A/HRC/19/59/Add.5).
3.
Women’s rights
In order to strengthen the protection of the right to food of women (A/HRC/22/50), States
should:
(a)
Remove all discriminatory provisions in the law, combat discrimination that
has its source in social and cultural norms, and use temporary special measures to
accelerate the achievement of gender equality;
(b)
Recognize the need to accommodate the specific time and mobility
constraints on women as a result of the existing gender roles, while at the same time
redistributing the gender roles by a transformative approach to employment and social
protection;
(c)
Mainstream a concern for gender in all laws, policies and programs, where
appropriate, by developing incentives that reward public administrations which make
progress in setting and reaching targets in this regard;
(d)
Adopt multisector and multi-year strategies that move towards full equality
for women, under the supervision of an independent body to monitor progress, relying on
gender-disaggregated data in all areas relating to the achievement of food security.
4.
Social protection
The provision of social protection can substantially contribute to the realization of the right
to food (A/68/268, A/HRC/12/31). States should:
(a)
Guarantee the right to social security to all, without discrimination, through
the establishment of standing social protection schemes;
(b)
Ensure that, when targeted schemes are adopted, they are based on criteria
that are fair, effective and transparent;
(c)
Define benefits under national social protection systems as legal entitlements,
so that individual beneficiaries are informed about their rights under social programs and
have access to effective and independent grievance redressal mechanisms;
(d)
Ensure that the design of social protection schemes is effectively
transformative of existing gender roles (A/HRC/22/50); and
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