- TypeTraining or Development Class
- Location Mombasa, Kenya
- Date 04-09-2023 - 15-09-2023
Education/Teaching/Training/Development
Business Development
Social Sciences
Administration/Management
Food Processing
WORKSHOP ON NUTRITION SENSITIVE PROGRAMMING AND NUTRITION RESILIENCE PROGRAMMING
Organizer: Skills for Africa Training Institute (https://skillsforafrica.org)
Registrations
https://skillsforafrica.org/course/217
Course Date
Location
06/03/2023-17/03/2023
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INTRODUCTION
Secure livelihoods are characterized by households that have different activities within the community that provide income, shelter, and other factors to ensure their well-being. This training event is therefore intended to enable households, communities, and countries build resilience so as to strengthen their ability to manage change by maintaining or transforming their living standards in the face of shocks or stresses without compromising their long-term prospects. The course introduces the fundamentals of nutrition-sensitive programming and provides guidelines for practitioners to use when designing programs that promote access to nutrient-rich foods and dietary diversity in a society.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
DURATION
10 Days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit stakeholders working in livelihoods, food security, economic growth, nutrition, and maternal and child health. It is also beneficial to experts in agriculture; extension officers, agricultural officials and decision makers working with local people, in governments, donor organization, and non-profit oriented organizations for agriculture development programmes.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Introduction
· An Introduction to Nutrition-Sensitive Programming and nutrition resilience programming
Module 2: Basic Nutrition Concept
· Essential Nutrition Concepts
· Indicators of Nutritional Status
· Interdependence Between Health and Nutritional Status
Module 3: Strengthening Nutrition Linkages: Why It Matters
Module 4: Essential Nutrition Concepts for Nutrition-Sensitive Activities
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
Module 8: Agricultural Livelihoods
Module 9: Cross-cutting roles in building nutrition resilience
Module 10: Review
GENERAL NOTES
· This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.
· Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.
· Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.
· We can also do this as tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more: [email protected]
· The training will be conducted at SKILLS FOR AFRICA TRAINING INSTITUTE IN NAIROBI KENYA.
· The training fee covers tuition fees, training materials, lunch and training venue. Accommodation and airport transfer are arranged for our participants upon request.
· Payment should be sent to our bank account before start of training and proof of payment sent to: [email protected]