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Thematic Guidelines, Nutrition and Health; Guidelines for the use of Nutritional Information in VAM

Eric Kenefick, WFP

Published in : 2006

Available in : English

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 examples of tools that can be used for assessing consumption and anthropometric data.

Documents :
English (PDF, 3.06Mb)

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Themes : Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Nutrition training and capacity development, general, Assessments and Monitoring, Food and nutrition policies and strategies, Food Security and Livelihoods , Health Interventions , HTP module 10, Monitoring and evaluation, Monitoring and evaluation, MUAC, MUAC, Nutrition information and education, Nutrition information and education, Programmes, Rapid Assessments, Surveillance systems, Surveillance systems

Resource types : Field guide, Guidelines