Evidence-based nutrition interventions exist that can positively impact maternal and child nutrition. They also can significantly reduce mortality, if sufficient programmatic coverage is achieved (Bhutta et al. 2013).
Agrilinks, August 2015
Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Ag2Nut Community Call for 9/16/2014, featuring speakers from IFAD, FAO, and IFPRI, discussing a nutritiono-sensitive training workshop held at IFAD headquarters in Rome, from July 15-18, 2014.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (July 2014)
The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework delivers a set of evidence-based interventions to improve nutritional status during the critical 1,000 days between conception and two years of age.
In early and late May, 2014, SPRING conducted two five-day IYCF trainings. Participants were drawn from civil society organizations supported by the USAID/Umbrella Grant Mechanism partners (SMILE and STEER), as well as the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), and the Ministry of Women Affairs & Social Development. A total of 52 participants were trained, with 24 participants attending from Edo state, and 28 participants attending from Kaduna state.
In 2013, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria led a process to produce training materials on community infant and young child feeding. SPRING/Nigeria, which was involved in the development of the package, is now rolling out the training to all relevant stakeholders.
In August 2013, SPRING and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) formally launched the Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Package for its use in uniform training and information sharing throughout Nigeria.