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Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works Part 2 What Works Part II: Tool and Resources provides background data, qualitative research instruments and methodologies, norms and protocols, and references that managers can use to design, implement, and monitor programs and share with others engaged or interested in anemia prevention and control. Published in 2003, by |
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Anthropometry Basics: FANTA bookmark The BOOKMARK presents clear information on basic anthropometric concepts. Bookmarks measure 2.5" by 7.5" (6.4 cm by 19.1 cm). Published in 2004, by |
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Assessing Nutrition Situations in Emergencies: FANTA bookmark The BOOKMARK presents clear information on malnutrition classification and cut-offs with commonly used eligibility criteria for selective feeding programs. Bookmarks measure 2.5" by 7.5" (6.4 cm by 19.1 cm) Published in 2006, by |
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ASSETS Guidebook: Assessment of Emergency and Transition Situations This manual is intended to provide a brief overview and introduction to ASSETS, a tool that has been designed by Mercy Corps to assist in conducting assessments. While originally developed for complex emergency situations, many of the manual’s components are relevant and applicable to non-emergency settings. This guide is divided into three sections:... Published in 2006, by |
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Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies Provides the means to prepare, plan, implement and monitor behaviour change communication initiatives supporting health, hygiene and child protection efforts in emergencies, including IFE issues. For programme managers from UNICEF, United Nations agencies, NGO partners and government personnel. Published in 2006, by |
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Breastfeeding Counselling: A Training Course Designed to provide health workers with the clinical and interpersonal skills needed to support mothers and their children to breastfeed optimally. It includes guides for the course director and trainers, a participant’s manual, a booklet with overhead figures, a slide book and annexes. The materials are designed to make it possible for trainers even with... Published in 1993, by |
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Brief 1 of 12 - Nutrition: Making the Case Nutrition: A Foundation for Development. Why Practitioners in Development Should Integrate Nutrition In the past 20 years hundreds of millions of people have benefited from improved living standards. Many countries have experienced increases in life expectancy, growth in per capita food production and gross domestic product, improvements in school... Published in 2002, by |
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Brief 2 of 12 - Nutrition and Education No nation can afford to waste its greatest national resource: the intellectual power of its people. But that is precisely what is happening where low birth weight is common,where children fail to achieve their full potential growth,where micronutrient deficiencies permanently damage the brain,and where anemia and short-term hunger limit children’s... Published in 2002, by |
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Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) - Training Guide Extensive training course on all aspects of setting up and running community based therapeutic care programmes. With practical cases and exercises. Suitable for managers and health workers Published in 2008, by |
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Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis Guidelines, First Edition The Comprehensive Food Security & Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) is a unique tool designed to understand and describe the profiles of food-insecure and vulnerable households, identify the root causes of hunger, and analyze the risks and emerging vulnerabilities among populations in crisis-prone countries. It also makes recommendations on the best response... Published in 2009, by |
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EFSA Distance Learning material Two versions are available; one for experienced practitioners and the other for relative novices. The training package is an interactive package with many exercises and case studies to work through. Suitable for field staff Published in 2007, by |
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El VIH y la alimentación infantil - Pautas para tomadores de decisiones El propósito de esta publicación es proveer pautas para los tomadores de decisiones sobre temas que necesitan ser considerados en cuanto a la alimentación de lactantes y de niños pequeños en el contexto del VIH y enfatizar áreas de atención especial en las que es necesario tomar decisiones normativas a nivel local. Published in 2003, by |
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El VIH y la alimentación infantil - Una guía para gerentes y supervisores de la atención en salud Los propósitos de esta publicación son proporcionar pautas para gerentes y supervisores de la atención en salud sobre temas relacionados a la alimentación de lactantes y niños pequeños en el contexto del VIH y enfatizar áreas de interés especial para la organización de servicios. Published in 2003, by |
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ENA Software Software for Emergency Nutrition Surveys developed as part of the SMART initiative to analyse nutrition and mortality surveys. It provides standard analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys in emergency situations and contains therefore all necessary calculations in one programme. The software has different sheets (planning, training, data entry, results,... Published in 2010, by |
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EPI INFO Software that can be used to analyse nutrition surveys using EPINUT which is part of Epi-Info. The programme is regularly updated and technical support is available. Published in 2008, by |
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Examining Early Child Development in Low-Income Countries: A Toolkit for the Assessment of Children in the First Five Years of Life The toolkit aims to: (i) provide an overview of issues affecting early development and its measurement; (ii) discuss the types of tests typically used with children under five years; (iii) provide guidelines for selecting and adapting tests for use in developing countries, and (iv) make recommendations for planning successful assessment strategies. Published in 2009, by |
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First Report on the World Nutrition Situation - Supplement on Methods and Statistics This supplement to the ACC/SCN's First Report on the World Nutrition Situation essentially expands section 4 of that report - the Technical Notes - to give more details, for two main purposes. In the first place, it was felt that an understanding of what is known about the world nutrition situation needs considerable detail on sources of data, assumptions,... Published in 1988, by |
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Food Security Information Systems and Networks E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and network. This course introduces and provides guidance in assessing different kinds of information systems related to food security analysis. Published in 2007, by |
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HIV and infant feeding counselling tools These tools have been created to help health workers before, during and after a counselling session so that they can better support HIV-positive mothers. Published in 2005, by |
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Improving Nutrition Programmes an Assessment Tool for Action ASSESSMENT TOOL aimed at strengthening community-based food and nutrition programmes at country level increasing the ability to address the causes of malnutrition. It sets out a methodology in four sections covering programme design, the macroenvironment, the microenvironment, and sustainability. The Assessment Tool is used for making suggestions for action... Published in 2005, by |
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Indicators for assessing health facility practices that affect breastfeeding Report summarizes the discussion and consensus of an informal meeting on ‘Breastfeeding Indicators for Health Care Facilities’ held by WHO. It includes precise definition for each of the key indicators as well as sample questionnaires for data collection. Published in 1992, by |
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Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling - an Integrated Course. Guidelines for Follow-up after training This resource forms a part of a 5-day course that is designed to provide knowledge and skills to lay counsellors, community health workers, primary health care nurses and doctors, clinicians at first referral level and counsellors involved in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. It enables them to counsel and support mothers to carry out... Published in 2006, by |
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Infant and Young Child Feeding. A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes This tool is designed to assist countries in (a) summarizing current data with regard to infant and young child feeding practices, (b) assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their policies and programmes to promote, protect and support optimal feeding practices, and (c) determining where improvements may be needed to meet the aims and objectives of the... Published in 2003, by |
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Infant formula - Generic label A generic label for infant formula Published in 2000, by |
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Initial Rapid Assessment (IRA) Toolkit An assessment tool that is being developed to be used in rapid onset emergencies in the first 72 hours. Published in 2007, by |
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Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification: Technical Manual Version 1 This manual provides technical guidance to the use of IPC among FSAU analysts and technical partners, and will hopefully contribute to on-going global efforts to standardize core elements of humanitarian analysis and response (e.g., the SMART, Benchmarking, Needs Analysis Framework, Humanitarian Tracking Service, and Sphere Project). Published in 2006, by |
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Joint Assessment Guidelines (with tools and resources) Manual and training guide to food security and nutrition assessment. Published in 2004, by |
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Knowledge Practice and Coverage (KPC) Survey 2000+ : Module 2 on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding Knowledge Practice and Coverage (KPC) 2000+ aims to assist projects in planning, conducting, and analyzing a KPC survey, it can be adapted to include infants from 0. Module 2 is the specific section on infant and young child feeding with list of questions (from which one can pick and choose), explanations on how to ask questions, list of indicators and how... Published in 2006, by |
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Learning Package on HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings – Workshop Design and Trainer’s Guide An integrated learning package has been developed to promote and further support the utilization of the IASC Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings. The learning package is comprised of three inter-related sets of materials including: 1. a policy-level briefing session 2. one day workshop design and trainer’s guide 3. a self-study... Published in 2005, by |
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Livelihoods Assessments and Analysis E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and networkThis course introduces the concept of livelihoods and the components of the livelihoods framework. It also provides guidance on assessing livelihoods in different food security... Published in 2007, by |
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Material de Apoyo: Investigando las Causas de Desnutrición Este folleto es un material de apoyo para el curso sobre la Curso de Capacitación sobre la Evaluación del Crecimiento del Niño (2008), que es una herramienta para la implementación del Nuevo Patrón de Crecimiento de la OMS. El curso en su conjunto con todos los materiales se puede ver el la pagina web. El contenido demuestra cómo tomar medidas de... Published in 2008, by |
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Mother to Mother Support Group Methodology and Infant Feeding The purpose is two-fold: to train community health workers to facilitate infant feeding and mother-to-mother support groups; and to train trainers of community health workers in the methodology for facilitating mother-to-mother support groups related to infant feeding. May be useful to do in a longer-term emergency Published in 2003, by |
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National training programmes on treatment of severe malnutrition National programmes supported by WHO. Good examples for trainers. Published in 2010, by |
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Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS: A training course A training course for caregivers of PLWHA and their families that focuses on practical nutrition care and communication skills Published in 2009, by |
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NutVal Version 2.2 NutVal is a spreadsheet application for planning and monitoring the nutritional content of general food aid rations. Published in 2006, by |
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Principios y directrices para la integración de los derechos humanos en las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza La presente publicación tiene por objeto ayudar a los países, a los organismos internacionales y a cuantos se ocupan del desarrollo a traducir las normas, los criterios y los principios relativos a los derechos humanos en políticas y estrategias a favor de los pobres. Este trabajo es una prolongación de publicaciones anteriores de la OACDH. Este... Published in 2007, by |
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Principles and Guidelines for a Human Rights approach to Poverty reduction strategies This publication aims to assist countries, international agencies and development practitioners in translating human rights norms, standards and principles into pro-poor policies and strategies. The work here builds upon several previous publications of the OHCHR. This tool can be put to use at country level in enhancing the quality, impact and... Published in 2007, by |
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Reporting Food Security Information E-learning course designed as a distance learning course to support capacity building and training for national local nutrition and food security information systems and network. The four lessons provide guidance in designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts. Published in 2007, by |
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Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women A toolkit which can be used to quantitatively assess reproductive health risks, services, and outcomes in conflict-affected women between 15 and 49 years of age. Survey data can be used to compare a population across points in time or to make comparisons across populations. Published in 2007, by |
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Reproductive Health in refugee situations, an Inter-agency Field Manual A manual specifically on reproductive health, produced by a group of agencies. The purposes of the manual are: 1) to serve as a tool to facilitate discussion and decision-making in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of RH interventions; 2) to guide field staff in introducing and/or strengthening RH interventions in refugee situations,... Published in 1999, by |
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The World Bank's Nutrition Toolkit The World Bank's Nutrition Toolkit aims to help World Bank staff design and supervise effective and feasible nutrition projects and project components and to carry out comprehensive analysis of sectoral and policy issues affecting nutrition. Published in 2009, by |
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Tool Kit for Monitoring and Evaluating Breastfeeding Practices and Programs The purpose of this toolkit is to provide program managers with practical methods to facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of breastfeeding practices and to help them assess breastfeeding programs and practices. Sample questionnaires are provided and illustrations given of the minimal questions required for various program purposes Published in 1996, by |
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Toolkit for addressing nutrition in emergency situations The toolkit is intended as an easy-to-use field guide that outlines the key basic interventions for nutritional support to individuals and groups during an emergency situation. In most emergencies, we focus on two key aspects: risk assessment and risk management. This toolkit focuses on risk management. What it takes to ensure that emergency needs are met... Published in 2008, by |
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Training course on the management of severe malnutrition Seven modules with instructors’ and participants’ guides. Published in 2003, by |
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UNHCR Toolkit As a part of the Division of Operational Support (DOS), the Technical Support Section (TSS) has compiled this Toolkit to assist field practitioners, partners and Headquarters staff in effectively planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating refugee aid. In order to provide cross-sectional accuracy of information, the tools are reference materials from... Published in 2005, by |
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Users’ Training Manual: Improving Nutrition Programmes - An assessment Tool for Action TRAINING MANUAL developed to enhance the capacity of the members of assessment teams to conduct nutrition programme assessments, founded on a common understanding of concepts which underpin effective and sustainable community-based nutrition programmes. The manual is divided into six topics, to be taught over 3 to 5 days. The package can be adapted to... Published in 2004, by |