Training On Nutrition Sensitive Programming And Nutrition Resilience Programming

  • Overview

INTRODUCTION

Families with secure livelihoods engage in a variety of community-based endeavors that give them access to food, shelter, and other necessities for survival. Therefore, the goal of this training session is to help households, communities, and nations increase their capacity for managing change by maintaining or improving their standard of living in the face of shocks or strains without jeopardizing their long-term prospects. The course explains the foundations of nutrition-sensitive programming and offers recommendations for practitioners to employ when creating programs that support societal dietary diversity and access to nutrient-rich foods.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

  • Articulate key information on the social and economic impact of malnutrition
  • Identify strategies for interrupting the cycle of malnutrition
  • Explain the relationship between agricultural value chains and food systems
  • Explain the enabling environment in which all pathways operate.
  • Explain a four-step approach for designing effective nutrition-sensitive activities
  • Gain skills on cross-cutting roles in building nutrition resilience

DURATION

10 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Although this training program is appropriate for a wide spectrum of professionals, stakeholders involved in livelihood, food security, economic growth, nutrition, and mother and child health stand to gain significantly. Additionally, extension agents, agricultural officials, and decision-makers who work with locals in governments, donor organizations, and non-profit organizations for agriculture development programs might benefit from it.

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Basic Nutrition Concept

Module 3: Strengthening Nutrition Linkages: Why It Matters

  • Key information on the social and economic impact of malnutrition
  • Multi-sectoral approach in addressing malnutrition
  • Concept of nutrition-sensitive introduction
  • Specific ways to support improved nutrition

Module 4: Essential Nutrition Concepts for Nutrition-Sensitive Activities

  • Five forms of malnutrition
  • Essential needs of infants, children and mothers, especially during the period from conception to the child’s second birthday (the “first 1,000 days”)
  • Strategies for interrupting the cycle of malnutrition

Module 5: Connecting Agriculture to Nutrition

  • Conceptual Pathways that Connect Agriculture and Nutrition
  • The Pathways Model
  • The Income Pathway
  • Women's Empowerment Pathways
  • Expanding the Pathways Model
  • Value Chains for Nutrition

Module 6: Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Activities

  • The four-step approach for designing effective nutrition-sensitive activities
  • Nutrition-sensitive outcomes appropriate to the participants’ market systems development activity
  • Potential strategies for addressing malnutrition
  • Relevant practices, interventions, and indicators to include in the activity design
  • The next steps for implementation and monitoring.

Module 7: Introduction to nutrition resilience

  • Basic concepts and definitions
  • Key factors impacting on nutrition resilience in developing countries
  • Measuring nutrition resilience 
  • Nutrition resilience indicators

Module 8: Agricultural Livelihoods

  • Constraints to sustainable agricultural development
  • Threats to food and nutrition security
  • Disaster Risk Reduction for food and nutrition security
  • Building nutrition resilience in agriculture
  • Effects of food security threats and constraints to agrarian change and rural development

Module 9: Cross-cutting roles in building nutrition resilience

  • Capacity development role
  • Gender equity role
  • Role of strategic partnerships in strengthening nutrition
  • Role of technology in enhancing nutrition support options
  • Role of government and other development agencies
  • Role of community participatory programs

Module 10: Review

GENERAL NOTES

  • Our seasoned instructors, who have years of experience as seasoned professionals in their respective fields of work, will be teaching this course. A combination of practical exercises, theory, group projects, and case studies are used to teach the course..
  • The participants receive training manuals and supplementary reading materials.
  • Participants who complete this course successfully will receive a certificate.
  • We can also create a course specifically for your organization to match your needs. To learn more, get in touch with us at training@dealsontrainers.org.
  • The training will take place at DEALSON TRAINERS IN NAIROBI, KENYA in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • The training fee includes lunch, course materials, and lodging for the training session. Upon request, we may arrange for our participants' lodging and transportation to the airport.
  • Payment must be made to our bank account before the training begins, and documentation of payment should be emailed to training@dealsontrainers.org.

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