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    The Nutrition Working Group underscores the critical role of nutrition in maternal and child survival and health through dissemination of state-of-the-art information and approaches essential for quality nutrition programming.

    The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) Framework

    The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework  an operational framework for managing the advocacy, planning and delivery of an integrated package of preventive nutrition actions encompassing infant and young child feeding (IYCF), micronutrients and women's nutrition. Using multiple contact points, it targets health services and behavior change communication support (BCC) to women and young children during the first 1,000 days of life - from conception through the first two years of life - when nutrient requirements are increased, the risks of undernutrition are great, and the consequences of deficiencies most likely to be irreversible. All these actions have been proven to improve nutritional status and reduce mortality.

    The training component for the implementation of the ENA framework at both the health facility and community levels include 3 guides as follows:

    1.The Booklet of Key ENA Messages (Word Version)/ French (Word) illustrates the key ENA messages and can be used by those implementing and supporting health, nutrition, and food security programs for improving nutrition practices among pregnant and lactating mothers and children under two.

    2. ENA Health Worker Training Guide (Word Version)/ French (Word) equips health service providers with the technical, action-oriented nutrition knowledge and counseling skills needed to support pregnant women, mothers with children under two years of age, and other key family members to adopt optimal nutrition practices.

    2b. ENA Health Worker Handouts (Word Version)/ French (Word)

    3. ENA Community Volunteers Training Guide (Word Version)/ French (Word) equips semi-literate or illiterate Community Volunteers with the basic action-oriented nutrition knowledge and counseling skills needed to support pregnant women, mothers with children under two years and other key family members to adopt optimal nutrition practices

     

    The Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool for Program Planners (NPDA)

    The NPDA helps program planning teams design the nutrition component of their programs and select the most appropriate community-based nutrition approaches for their specific geographic target areas.  The NPDA was created as a response to frustration that many nutrition programs, including well-implemented ones, don't achieve their intended results because of a key program design mistake: they use the wrong approach to address their context-specific nutrition problems. The NPDA provides much needed guidance on how to select an approach and compare and contrast approaches so that a team can determine which one(s) would best suit their programming needs.  The Reference Guide provides guidance on analyzing the nutrition situation, establishing objectives, and selecting a combination of approaches to suit the local nutrition situation and the program's resources and objectives.  The Workbook is a place to record data, decisions, and decision-making rationale.

    Nutrition Program Design Assistant (NPDA) Reference Guide
    NPDA Workbook
    NPDA Workbook     (Word Version)
    NPDA Step 1 Data Tables
    NPDA Guidance for Field Agenda
    Nutrition Program Design Assistant Posters

    NDPA Workshop

    The workshop provided participants with experience using the tool and prepared them to use the tool for program planning in the field.  The following workshop materials can be used to support workshops or activities with the NPDA

    NDPA Workshop Agenda (Feb 2011)
    NDPA Workshop Syllabus (Feb 2011)
    NDPA STEP 1 East Africa Data Set
    NDPA STEP 1 West Africa Data Set
    NDPA STEP 3 East Africa Charts
    NDPA STEP 3 West Africa Charts

    Tools & Resources

    Meetings & Reports

    Useful Links

    Past Highlights

     
     

    The Moment Is NOW

    CORE Group endorses the Civil Society Statement on Scaling Up Nutrition

    One billion people in the world are undernourished – and millions of these are children.  Undernutrition is linked to one in three preventable deaths among children under five.  For those who survive, the effects last a lifetime, stunting both their physical size and also their intellectual development.  In addition, 10 percent of the global disease burden is attributed to child and maternal undernutrition, as is a higher risk of non-communicable diseases later in life. This human toll is compounded by an economic toll, as higher health care costs for families and governments and lower productivity rates diminish many countries’ scarce resources. Investing in nutrition can save the lives of one million children globally and increase a country’s gross domestic product by at least 3 percent.
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