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Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV, a joint publication by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the FANTA Project, is a guide developed to improve the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes.

Published in 2007, by USAID, AED, WFP

The Food Processing Pilot Centres (FPPCs) play a central role in the food industry value chain as they reinforce and manage the fundamental linkage between agriculture and the industry/market through technological upgrading, business networking and market access improvement, thus creating a more favorable environment for business development. The rural...

Published in 2007, by UNIDO

Operational guidance intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working in emergency programmes, including national governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors. It applies to emergency situations in all countries, and extends to non-emergency situations.

Published in 2007, by Emergency Nutrition Network

El proyecto Ñañemity se encuadra dentro del marco mundial de Educación Para Todos de la UNESCO, en la ampliación de la cobertura de la Educación Inicial, por medio de la atención integral por vías no formales a la niñez, con énfasis en la familia y la comunidad. El documento está publicado en por El Sector de Educación de la Oficina de la...

Published in 2007, by UNESCO

Nutrition Information Project for the Horn of Africa, Report of Regional Technical Working Group Meetings.

Published in 2007, by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Tulane University

El presente documento contiene orientación para la alimentación de niños no amamantados después de los primeros seis meses de vida. La intención de estos Principios Orientadores es de servir de guía para las normas y las acciones programáticas a nivel mundial, nacional y comunitario. La publicación de la OPS Principios de Orientación Para la...

Published in 2007, by OPS - PAHO, OMS - WHO, Kathryn Dewey

El Programa Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición (PANN 2000) del Ministerio de Salud Pública (MSP) del Ecuador fue creado en el año 1998 e implementado en el año 2000 con el apoyo de organismos nacionales e internacionales y ONGs, para mejorar el estado nutricional, prevenir el retraso en el crecimiento y la deficiencia de micronutrientes en lactantes y...

Published in 2007, by OPS - PAHO, Ministerio de Salud Pública Ecuador, Proceso de Ciencia y Tecnología Ecuador

The goal of this strategy (CD47/17) is to prevent and reduce the burden of chronic diseases and risk factors in the Americas. The target is a 2% annual reduction in death rates from the major chronic diseases, over and above current trends, which will result in the lives of over three million people being saved over the next 10 years, thus enabling them to...

Published in 2007, by PAHO

This edition of the SCN News is about one of the greatest success stories in international nutrition, that of Universal Salt Iodization. Although much still remains to be done, remarkable advances have been achieved in the fight against Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) in the last two decades.

Published in 2007, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

La présente Stratégie régionale pour les Amériques a quatre lignes d’action qui reconnaissent qu’il faut accorder la priorité aux maladies chroniques dans les programmes politiques et de santé publique; identifier la surveillance en tant que composante clé; reconnaître que les systèmes de santé doivent être réorientés pour répondre aux...

Published in 2007, by OPS - PAHO

Extensive research has been conducted on the educational effects of early childhood health and nutrition interventions. The breadth and depth of this research allows for a number of general conclusion to be drawn: -Early childhood health and nutrition interventions have a consistently large impact on cognitive development -Health and nutrition...

Published in 2006, by UNESCO

This resource forms a part of a 5-day course that is designed to provide knowledge and skills to lay counsellors, community health workers, primary health care nurses and doctors, clinicians at first referral level and counsellors involved in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. It enables them to counsel and support mothers to carry out...

Published in 2006, by WHO, UNICEF

Knowledge Practice and Coverage (KPC) 2000+ aims to assist projects in planning, conducting, and analyzing a KPC survey, it can be adapted to include infants from 0. Module 2 is the specific section on infant and young child feeding with list of questions (from which one can pick and choose), explanations on how to ask questions, list of indicators and how...

Published in 2006, by USAID

This special issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin reports on a WHO/UNICEF/Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) meeting on community-based management of severe malnutrition in children that took place in Geneva on November 21–23, 2005, and brought together some 50 international experts and representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP), the United...

Published in 2006, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

El propósito de este balance –el cuarto de una serie de balances preparados por UNICEF para realizar un seguimiento sobre el progreso de la infancia hacia los ODM– es evaluar el desempeño mundial en materia de nutrición, tomando como indicador básico la prevalencia de peso inferior al normal entre los niños y niñas menores de cinco años. Aun...

Published in 2006, by UNICEF

This report card – the fourth in a UNICEF series that monitors progress for children towards the MDGs – measures the world’s performance on nutrition, taking the prevalence of underweight among children under five as its primary indicator. The global community promised to cut the proportion of underweight children by half between 1990 and 2015, but we...

Published in 2006, by UNICEF

Guidelines developed for VAM staff on how to collect and interpret nutrition information. Useful for staff unfamiliar with nutrition indicators and includes how to assess nutrition status and the importance of indicators in understanding the food security situation of a population, but does not describe in detail how to conduct a nutrition survey. Gives...

Published in 2006, by Eric Kenefick, WFP

This handbook is aimed at WFP staff at all levels who are involved with the delivery of food assistance to WFP beneficiaries. It should serve as both a reference and training manual, providing the staff with - better understanding of food an nutrition issues as they relate to WFP - a practical tool to tackle a number of basic nutrition related tasks,...

Published in 2005, by WFP

Manual aimed at mid-level managers in all sectors who would like to better understand nutrition information and its use. The manual sets out all the steps involved in nutrition data collection and analysis including practical guidance for use by survey enumerators, health facility workers and other field workers. Additional materials have also been prepared...

Published in 2005, by FSAU, FAO

The focus of this edition of SCN News is on the challenges provided by the new Voluntary Guidelines on realizing the right to adequate food, adopted by the FAO Council last November. The papers include the SCN’s experience of developing case studies on how to strengthen food and nutrition components of national poverty reduction plans. They describe the...

Published in 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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