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e d i w d l r o W r e g n u H g n i t h g i F Nutrition at the World Food Programme Programming for Nutrition-Specific Interventions December 2012 Product Sheet updated July 2013 Special thanks to: Solutions for hidden hunger © WFP 2012 All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial uses are authorized without any prior written permission provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission. Applications for such permission should be addressed to the Director, Communications Division, e-mail: wfp.publications@wfp.org. This document is available online at wfp.org/policy-resources Table of Contents Programming for Nutrition-Specific Interventions Introduction 2 WFP Nutrition Policy 4 Nutrition Terminology 6 Treating Moderate Acute Malnutrition 9 Preventing Acute Malnutrition 14 Preventing Chronic Malnutrition- Stunting 18 Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies 25 Monitoring and Evaluation Logic Models 30 Updated Nutrition Product Sheet 34 1 Introduction WFP’s nutrition response is based on a thorough nutrients. WFP uses an expanded version of the understanding of the nutrition situation, in order to UNICEF conceptual framework on the causes of deliver the most appropriate response. This entails malnutrition to guide information gathering, to identifying who is suffering from undernutrition, facilitate identification of possible causes of the what type of undernutrition, when undernutrition is nutrition situation, to understand the relationship occurring, where undernutrition is occurring, and between immediate and underlying causes of why undernutrition is occurring. This also entails malnutrition as well as basic determinants, and to 1 understanding the nutrient gap and access to design the most appropriate responses. Food and Nutrition Security Conceptual Framework Nutritional Status/ l e Mortality v e l l a u d i v i d n I Individual Food Health Status/ S Intake Disease D R A Z A H D Livelihood N Outcomes A S Context l K Household Access Social and Care Access to Health Care & e C to Food Environment Health Environment v O Food e H l S Availability/ d Markets l O o T h e E Political, s R u U Economical, o S Institutional, H O P Security, Household Food Production, X Social, Livelihood E Cultural, Income Generating Activities, Exchange, Strategies Gender Loans, Savings, Transfers Environment Agro-ecological / y d t l Conditions/ i o l Climate n h e u e v m s e Natural m u l Physical Human Economic o o H Social Capital/Assets C Livelihood Assets 1. WFP’s operational focus is on the left side of this conceptual framework, i.e. on improving household access to food and individual dietary intake of sufficient food and nutrients. 2 Nutrition at the World Food Programme
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