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- 2. Nutrition sensitive –a definition • Multi-sectorial interventions that address the determinants of malnutrition • Nutrition sensitive: incorporating nutrition into other sector approaches to achieve improved nutrition outcomes
- 3. Also know as •nutrition sensitizing • nutrition-linking • nutrition-linked approaches • nutrition-integration • nutrition-relevant • nutrition-relevant actions • nutrition-targeted
- 4. So what isa nutrition intervention? • Action deliberately planned and designed to change a nutrition-related behavior or risk • Often taken within larger nutrition goals • Implementation is complex and requires broad stakeholder involvement in multiple sectors – Poverty – Gender inequality – Lack of access to health services – Lack of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene – Food insecurity
- 5. Why is NutritionSensitive Important? • Malnutrition especially stunting is still a major problem • Malawi needs to reach the target of 23% in 10 years – • Nutrition-sensitive can be leveraged to increase scale, coverage and effectiveness of nutrition specific • These programmes often reach poor households
- 6. Unique Nutrition challenges Multidimensionaland overlapping causes • A large chronically food insecure population (13%), even in good years • Consistent poor diets, no change in decades • High disease burden among children • Structural and Interlinked inadequate resources
- 7. Progress Made till2014 53 47.1 42.4 22.8 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Percentage Under Five Nutrition Status: Stunting DHS (2004) DHS (2010) MICS (2014) 2025 Global target
- 8. Nutrition Sensitive Nutrition Specific(Immediate causes) • Management of Acute malnutrition • Promotion of breastfeeding practices • Micronutrient/ Vitamin supplementation • Complementary feeding Nutrition Sensitive (underlying and basic causes) • Homestead food production- diversity • Safe water sources, sanitation practices • Livelihoods diversification - resilience, • Cash transfer/ IGA programs - income, • Livestock production / aquaculture • Food fortification/ Biofortification, • Food price subsidies, • Gender/Women empower/ Girl education • Food-for-work programs, • School feeding programs, • Nutrition education / BCC • Family planning
- 9. Things to definefor nutrition-sensitive programming • What we are aiming for – Objective/target/goal • Tools for assessment – Initial analysis, including impact pathways • Guidance for programme design • M and E and documentation – Indicators
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Can reference that there are many definitions, a la Bread for the World summary 2012 http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/nutrition-sensitive-interventions.pdf
- #4 Can reference that there are many definitions, a la Bread for the World summary 2012 http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/nutrition-sensitive-interventions.pdf
- #5 Can reference that there are many definitions, a la Bread for the World summary 2012 http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/nutrition-sensitive-interventions.pdf
- #6 12.5 percent of the world’s population (868 million people) are undernourished in terms of energy intake (SOFI 2013) undernutrition in the aggregate—including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding—is a cause of 3·1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011 WFP is uniquely placed to fight undernutrition due to its work in food security, vulnerability analysis and nutrition. Nutrition-sensitive action can improve the coverage of nutrition-specific programmes as delivery platforms for nutrition-specific interventions, increasing scale, coverage and effectiveness
- #10 What we know form the Lancet- ways to enhance nutrition sensitivity of programmes: Targeting Using conditions to stimulate participation Strengthen nutrition goals and actions Optimize women’s time, nutrition, physical and mental health and empowerment