Assembly/AU/ 7 (X)I Page 16 a. Improved risk management and vulnerability analysis. b. Increased supply of affordable commodities through increased production and improved market linkages. c. Improved food access and increased economic opportunities for the vulnerable. d. Improved quality of diets through diversification of nutritious food among the target groups. 8. Follow-up Actions (a) By Member Countries Countries will immediately convene an initial meeting of stakeholders to establish a timeline for stakeholder consultations and finalization of the short and long-term response plan: • • • Prepare a work plan with a short term horizon for addressing the short term response; Draft a long term schedule for the broader CAADP process as the country roadmap; and Establish an accelerated process of stakeholder consultation and fund raising. (b) By Regional Economic Communities (RECs) The RECs will take proactive measures on their assistance to countries on the short term response and longer term CAADP processes: • • • Update list of joint missions to cover workshop participating countries Plan for accelerating CAADP roundtable implementation, identification of technical assistance required; and Prepare a work plan with a short term horizon for addressing the short term response. (c) By AU/NEPAD A taskforce led by AU/NEPAD Secretariat supported by FAO, WFP, IFAD, the World Bank, Lead Pillar Institutions and RECs will coordinate active and timely follow-up to decisions made at the workshop. The taskforce’s actions would include: • • • Facilitate the coordination of development partners support for country level programming activities in connection with both immediate and longer term responses to the food price crisis; Manage the compilation and dissemination of information flows, monitoring progress with implementing decisions taken at the workshop in order to be able to report to major regional and global events in the coming few months; Support the dialogue with development partners at national level on responses to the crisis, and ensuring that local representatives of development partners are adequately briefed on the decisions of the workshop and the commitment of governments and development partners;