China Food Safety Improvement Project

The development objective of the Food Safety Improvement Project for China is to improve food safety management at the national and targeted subnational levels and reduce food safety risks in selected value chains. The project comprises of four components. The first component, institution building and regulatory performance objective is to enhance the institutional capacity and strengthen risk-based food safety regulatory frameworks for preventing and preparing to effectively deal with emerging animal health, food safety, and other global threats such as anti-microbial resistance (AMR). It consists of following sub-components: (i) food safety programming guidance; (ii) multi-sector coordination and food safety governance; (iii) risk based regulatory frameworks; and (iv) risk management capacity building. The second component, food safety supervision process will be primarily implemented at the provincial and municipal level and support regulatory authorities to develop and demonstrate innovative food safety supervision models. It consists of following sub-components: (i) food safety surveillance systems; (ii) food safety information analytics; and (iii) risk communication. The third component, whole value chain food safety control objective is to promote investments along the selected value chains to reduce food safety risks. It consists of following sub-components: (i) investment support; (ii) food safety insurance services; and (iii) modernizing value chain infrastructure. The fourth component, project implementation support objective is to support the implementation of the project activities. It consists of following sub-components: (i) project management; and (ii) monitoring, evaluation, and learning.