Toolkit on How to protect and Promote the Nutrition of
Mothers and Children
in Latin America and the Caribbean
Human Development -Health,
Nutrition & Population
The World Bank – 2013
Available online at: http://bit.ly/XKu1iN
“………Latin
America and the
poverty.
The rationale for this toolkit
derives from three main principles:
1) the sound economic sense of investing in nutrition in the first 1,000 days
of life;
2) the need to help countries faced with transitioning from stable times into
and out of crisis to prevent potential irreversible damage to human capital
and;
3) the imperative to build the resilience of the most vulnerable to shocks and
to protect livelihoods.
The aim of this toolkit is to inform changes in countries’ policies and
practices and to guide their attempts to deal with persistently high prevalence
rates of malnutrition among their poorest, least educated, and indigenous
populations. In a single-source compilation, it offers clear guidance on
cost-efficient interventions to assist countries in safeguarding the
nutritional status of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis,
and emergency.
The value added of this toolkit is that it is the first to underscore the
importance of protecting and promoting nutrition of mothers and children during
times of crisis. It addresses the existing policy and information gaps by
providing direction on how countries can protect and promote nutrition when
faced with transitioning in and out of a crisis, by focusing especially on the
unique window of opportunity represented by the first 1,000 days of life.
Moreover, it offers an assessment tool to evaluate
countries’ readiness to protect the nutritional status of the most
vulnerable as compared to international recommendations regarding key nutrition
actions.
The toolkit comprises three main
components:
- policy guidance for priority nutrition interventions and
- cross-cutting approaches; a country benchmarking; and
- case studies.
The methodology used to produce this toolkit was based on
internationally validated scientific evidence and extensive consultations with
countries. Development of the policy guidance entailed a rigorous review and
synthesis of international policy guidelines as well as programmatic and
technical documents…..”
Content
Objective
Rationale
Methodology for Development
Introduction
The Importance of the “First
1,000 Days of Life”
Crises and Emergencies in Latin
America and the
The Nutrition of Mothers and
Children in Times of Crisis and Emergency
Laying the Foundation to Protect and Promote the Nutrition
of Mothers and
Children in Times of Stability, Crisis, and Emergency
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