A/HRC/10/5 page 21 • Fully respect the principle of ownership in their development cooperation policies by aligning these policies with national strategies for the realization of the right to food defined in the partner country with the participation of national parliaments and civil society organizations • Promote the right to food as a priority for cooperation with partner countries where hunger or malnutrition are significant problems, focusing on the most vulnerable groups of the society • Conduct ex ante impact assessments (based on human rights standards and principles) in order to ensure that development policies and investments in all relevant sectors will not lead to violations of the right to adequate food • Implement basic human rights principles in development cooperation: transparency, accountability, participation, non-discrimination and empowerment • Propose to their partners that they prepare joint assessments, on a regular basis, of the impact of development cooperation on the realization of the right to adequate food, based on the normative components of this right as recognized in international law (b) States parties to the FAC should: • Process the information provided by the Members of the Food Aid Committee about their contributions so as to allow the evaluation by any external observer of a State party’s compliance with its commitments • Assess States’ compliance with article XIII of the FAC within the Food Aid Committee • Allow the Food Aid Committee to transform itself into a learning forum for both its Members and the recipient Governments, as well as non-governmental organizations active in the field of food aid, by organizing transparent and joint assessments of the impacts of food aid on long-term food security • Ensure that the commitments under the FAC are needs-based, by grounding them on an adequate mapping of food vulnerability and insecurity in the recipient country, and by expressing commitments as a percentage of assessed needs or as a contribution to the cost of meeting the costs of insurance schemes • Avoid the monetization of food aid and prioritize cash transfers untied from domestic production or shipping requirements above the provision of food aid in-kind • Set up mechanisms, including by reforming internal decision-making processes for the allocation of food aid, in order to ensure that their food aid will be timely and well targeted and will fit into the national strategy for the realization of the right to food adopted at domestic level by the recipient State