The Comida do Amanhã Institute has joined the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty under the Knowledge pillar, offering technical support for the implementation of food programs and policies in countries committed to adopting effective policy technologies to combat hunger and poverty. 

The Alliance aims to provide continuous political momentum and encourage collective action, creating synergies with other existing efforts to combat hunger and poverty. To this end, the initiative offers a neutral mediation platform where members seeking assistance in developing, implementing, or executing public policies aimed at achieving SDGs 1 and 2 can connect with partners willing to offer expertise or financial support for these goals, with a focus on countries most affected by hunger and extreme poverty and on vulnerable people. 

The process of joining the Task Force involves submitting a declaration of commitment, which can be done by national governments, international organizations, multilateral development banks, knowledge centers, and philanthropies that wish to offer support in the implementation of public policies and is divided into the following pillars: national, financial, and knowledge. 

The policies that the Comida do Amanhã Institute has proposed to support, within the Alliance’s “basket of public policies,” are: school feeding programs; institutional markets/fairs, including public procurement and food prices favorable to the poorest; promotion of short value chains; promotion of and access to healthy diets, including through education and affordable/subsidized prices; and transfer of food or subsidized food (food distribution programs). 

Support can be provided through technical assistance, capacity building and strengthening, training, and/or knowledge sharing for the implementation of the selected policies, especially at the local level, in collaboration with other members of the Alliance. 

The Institute has also made itself available for other optional actions in the implementation of food public policies in accordance with the objectives of the Alliance, such as supporting the development of mechanisms for equality and inclusion in food policy governance; coordination at multiple levels of food policies; coherence and integration in food policy planning; and integration of the urban food agenda into national food and nutrition security policies. 

For Juliana Tângari, director of Comida do Amanhã, the opportunity represents a resumption of the debate on hunger and food insecurity on the global stage. “The Alliance needs to be understood beyond the fight against hunger. We are talking about an Alliance for the promotion of food security and nutrition in the world, and we want to count on the participation of civil society. What makes us believe in the importance of the initiative is that it is not an isolated investment, but rather the innovative creation of a mechanism not only for financing, but also for promoting the transfer of knowledge for the implementation of successful policies in the fight against hunger.” 

In addition to Comida do Amanhã, 65 other organizations are part of the Alliance, such as some of our institutional partners, such as Ação da Cidadania, Instituto Ibirapitanga, Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), Pacto Contra Fome, and Instituto Fome Zero. For a complete list of members, click here. 

The operationalization of the Alliance is scheduled for implementation in 2025 and may still reveal the need for adjustments to the plan. After the launch, the initiative will operate independently, with an autonomous global platform with no ties to the G20 and coordinated by its Support Mechanism. 

The Support Mechanism is an international structure hosted by organizations that are already part of the Alliance, and which should have offices located in Rome, Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Brasília, and Washington. The group will serve as a vector for building specific partnerships for the implementation of national policies: within the Mechanism, members of the Champions Council and the Knowledge Pillar will guide the addition and curation of the basket of public policies, which has about 50 possible actions against hunger and poverty thought of collectively and adapted to the contexts of each committed country.