Global Nutrition Cluster´s

Harmonized Training Package (HTP)

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About the HTP

The Harmonized Training Package project came about following a side meeting of the SCN in March 2006 at which it was agreed that there was a need to develop a unified training package for addressing nutrition in emergencies at country and regional levels. In 2007, the United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee (UN-IASC) commissioned the  Global Nutrition Cluster’s Capacity Development Working Group (CDWG) to develop a “Nutrition in Emergency (NiE) Training Package” to facilitate capacity building for effective response in emergencies contexts. The training package is intended to be used by present and future response teams in sudden or prolonged emergencies. It has been piloted in Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

The training package was finalized in October 2008. It is called the “Harmonized Training Package” (HTP) which is composed of 21 modules developed by 20 consultants and each module was reviewed by two specialists. Each module is designed to be able to stand alone for sessions that can range from 30 minutes to up to 3 hours or to be used as a comprehensive nutrition in emergencies training of several days. The HTP is organized in four major sets of modules, where each module is composed of four parts: A Fact sheet providing an overview of the module’s topic, Technical notes for trainers and trainees that provide guidance on current practice, a Trainer´s guide to help trainers develop the course, and a Resources document which lists relevant available resources. At the moment the complete HTP is available in English but it is being translated into other languages (French, Spanish and Protuguese) which will also be available on this website early 2010.

For further information, please visit the Global Nutrition Cluster at http://oneresponse.info/globalclusters/nutrition


Modules

 
Introduction and concepts (5 modules)
1. Introduction to nutrition in emergencies
2. Agency mandates and coordination mechanisms
3. Understanding malnutrition
4. Micronutrient malnutrition
5. Causes of malnutrition

Nutrition needs assessment and analysis (5 modules)
6. Measuring malnutrition: individual assessment
7. Measuring malnutrition: population assessment
8. Health assessment and the link with nutrition
9. Food security assessment and the link with nutrition
10. Nutrition information and surveillance systems
 
Interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition (9 modules)
11. General food distribution
12. Supplementary feeding
13. Therapeutic care
14. Micronutrient interventions
15. Health interventions
16. Livelihood interventions
17. Infant and young child feeding
18. HIV and AIDS nutrition
19. Nutrition information, education and communication
 
Monitoring, evaluation and accountability (2 modules)
20. Monitoring and evaluation
21. Standards and accountability


How to read or download the modules

Each module document is displayed on the SCN website in a PDF window on a special webpage for the HTP documents. If your Internet connection is poor and it takes too long time to view the document as PDF, you may also download the documents as single files or the whole module as a zipped folder. Please note that if you use Firefox on a Mac, you may have to download the Firefox PDF plug-in for Mac.

How to leave comments or upload material

The Harmonized Training Package is a living document that will be reviewed and revised on a continuous basis. The Global Nutrition Cluster is therefore keen to receive your comments to the document, including experiences and files that you have developed based on the HTP, for example PPT training slides etc. We like to encourage you to share also materials in other languages than English.

You may leave your comments or upload your files as you are in the process of reading the module document. Below the PDF window, please click on "Leave a comment", which opens a comment box where you should indicate your name, email, the type of comment you make, and the page number of the module document that your comment relates to.

Please choose comment type "general" for a general comment, "technical" for technical comment and "question" for questions. If you wish to upload material you have developed based on the HTP, please choose comment type "training materials" indicating the type, i.e. case studies, PowerPoints, trainers pack or participant pack. Please make sure that you have checked the quality of the file and that it is not infected by viruses.

You may leave a comment in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese of up to 3,000 characters and upload one file per comment. In order to avoid machine created spam, you are asked to type in a set of characters that you see on a pattern.

Your comments will be available to see for everyone below the module document in question. All comments are also gathered on a special webpage for HTP comments and uploaded files where you may sort them by module document, date, comment type, etc.


Conditions for downloading uploaded material

You may access uploaded material attached to the comments, directly from the webpage for the HTP documents or from the webpage for all HTP comments and uploaded files. Files uploaded by users are free to download by other users. Please respect the authors copyright to their material and ask for permission before using their material.

Please note that material uploaded by users is reflecting the authors views only and does not imply any endorsement in any form by the SCN or the Global Nutrition Cluster. Please also note that downloading this material is at your own risk and that the quality of the files cannot be guaranteed by the SCN or the Global Nutrition Cluster.
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