This was presented at the workshop "Better Targeting Food Safety Investments in Low and Middle Income Countries," hosted by A4NH and LSHTM.

1. Strengthening SPS
capacity:
Experiences from
STDF’s work
Better Targeting Food Safety Investments
in Low and Middle Income Countries
Brussels, 24 May 2017
Marlynne Hopper, STDF Secretariat

2. Key Messages
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• Identifying and prioritizing needs
• Facilitating a coherent, collaborative approach
• Learning from experiences
• Influencing sustainable change on the ground
• Measuring and communicating results

3. STDF’s Global Partnership
Funding for
development and
implementation
of innovative,
collaborative SPS
projects
Coordination mechanism
and knowledge hub:
• identify good practice
• strengthen coherence
• avoid duplication
• enhance results
Goal: Increased capacity of developing countries to implement
international SPS standards, guidelines and recommendations, and
ability to gain and maintain market access

5. DELIVERING RESULTS
Solomon Islands
Microbiological testing to
maintain fish exports
Thailand and Vietnam
Improving food safety for
domestic retail and export
Africa, ASEAN, L. America
Strengthening capacity
to meet pesticide MRLs
80 STDF projects to date
Total STDF contribution: US$37.3 million
Leveraged: US$23.5 million
Focus on LDCs and OLICs (66%) and food safety (38%)

6. Malawi Program for Aflatoxin Control
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Purpose:
Develop a more strategic, multi-sectoral
response to aflatoxin control
Results:
• Shared vision for aflatoxin control
• Identified investment needs and
leveraged resources
• Improved collaboration across
agriculture, health, trade, etc.
• Experiences and lessons taken on
board by PACA

7. Spill-over impacts of investing in
food safety for export?
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Key Questions:
• What are the spill-over effects
(positive or negative) of investing in
food safety systems for export?
• How can the design and delivery of
future programmes be improved?
Synergies with ongoing World Bank study
“Strengthening the case for food safety investments”

9. Evidence-based approach to inform
SPS investment decisions
Context
• Several different SPS investment needs
• Resource constraints
• Decision-making processes sometimes
ad hoc or not very transparent
• Resources not always targeted to where
they’re likely to have greatest impact

10. P-IMA Framework
Principles
• Flexibility
• Pragmatism
• Participation
• Transparency
• Ongoing process to inform and
improve SPS decision-making
Complements sector-specific SPS capacity evaluation tools

11. How does P-IMA work?
Use of multi criteria decision analysis to rank several investment
options, which may differ in their characteristics and associated
flow of benefits over time
Decision criteria Measurement
Cost • Upfront investment
• Ongoing costs
• Absolute value /
magnitude of change
• Absolute value /
magnitude of change
• Number
• Scaling
• YES/NO
Trade impacts • Change in value of exports
Domestic spill-
over impacts
• Domestic public health
• Agricultural productivity
• Local environment
Social impacts • Poverty
• Vulnerable groups

12. How are the investment options ranked?

13. P-IMA: Experiences and Benefits
• Enhanced public-private dialogue
• Evidence to support project design, resource mobilization
• Greater awareness about the value of SPS investments
• Transparency and accountability
• Greater resource efficiency
"Use of P-IMA helped to raise high-level awareness about the
importance of SPS capacity. It also helped to integrate SPS priorities
in agriculture sector investment plans under the Comprehensive
Africa Agriculture Development Programme“
Martha Byanyima, COMESA Secretariat

14. Moving forward
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• More and better investments in SPS systems
• Use of structured approaches to evaluate and prioritize needs
• Evidence on cost of SPS gaps and benefits of investments
• Partnerships across public and private sector, academia, etc.
• Synergies and coherence across health, agriculture,
environment, trade, etc.
• Building institutional capacity
• Working together to meet common and shared objectives

15. For more information
Standards and Trade Development Facility
Marlynne.Hopper@wto.org
STDFSecretariat@wto.org
www.standardsfacility.org
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