International and Stakeholder Collaboration
The core principle of HDHL is to facilitate coordination between policy makers and scientists within Europe and behond. This to generate new scientific knowledge, share existing knowledge and expertise, and bring together important datasets in the areas of food, nutrition and health.
Stakeholder Engagement Plan
To ensure that the investments of HDHL can be translated into real health improvements, HDHL works towards an integrated multi-sectoral approach, embracing education, health care, agriculture, environment, food and drink industry, transport, advertising and commerce. Stakeholder engagement is therefore of crucial importance for HDHL in order to deliver on the societal challenge that it is facing.
International Collaboration
The Strategy and Action Plan aims to provide broad strategic guidance with a view to outlining more specific actions about with whom, how and when to engage at both the strategic and operational level.
The paper provides a profile for countries in the Asian and Pacific regions who met the initial criteria; outlines similarities and differences at a country level with respect to their Healthy Diet Healthy Life profile; and identifies some of the anticipated benefits and opportunities, as well as challenges and potential barriers or risks, in engaging with each third country.
The Strategy and Action Plan will explore opportunities for alignment, engagement and collaboration at both the governance, strategic and joint activity levels of HDHL. The final Strategy and Action Plan will make specific recommendations to support the successful and efficient engagement of the third countries in the Asian / Pacific region, and the American and Caribbean, that HDHL choose to target and explore opportunities with.