Tieissiehi Dohe Franck^1,, Konan Amoin Georgette², Niaba Koffi Pierre Valery³, Etty Marie-Christine⁴, Julien Soliba Manga⁴, Jean Claude Moubarac⁴, Stefanie Vandevijvere⁵, Adama Diouf⁶, Assa Rebecca Rachel Epse Yao²

Background: Advanced hunger and all forms of malnutrition have led to a growing interest in a favorable environment for nutrition around the world. In response to the challenge of nutrition, west Africa countries like Côte d'Ivoire has demonstrated its commitment by establishing policies and the development of infrastructures that promote favorable environment for nutrition. Nevertheless, these policy documents are not well known and shared. Thus, objectives of this study are to collect and to classify all policy documents and actions implemented in Côte d'Ivoire promoting sustainable and healthy food environments. Methods: Data collections were done online and physically thanks to the collaboration of Governmental and non-governmental institutions from food environments. Documents were classified according to their framework origins (e.g., policy, strategic, and operational) and the Food-EPI tool. Food-EPI tool is composed of two modules of good practice indicators which are the 'policies' module and the 'infrastructure support' module. Results: In total, 113 documents were collected for the period of 1969 to 2022. Fifty-four documents inform on the 'policies' module, while fifty-nine documents provide information on the 'infrastructure support' module. Fifty-four percent of the collected documents come from the operational framework, 25% from the policy framework and 21% from the strategic framework. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that since independence in the 1960s the government of Côte d’Ivoire has had an ongoing interest in the food environment and nutrition. Moreover, thanks to the classification of the 113 policy documents collected with Food-EPI tool, it will be possible to evaluate for this country many good practice indicators promoting sustainable and healthy food environment.

Food environments, Food-EPI Public policy, Côte d’Ivoire, Inventory and Structuring