Sustainable Micronutrient Interventions to Control Deficiencies and Improve Nutritional Status and General Health in Asia

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Main references for the project

The Kick-off Meeting took place (WP 1) in Montpellier, France, in March 2012. Learn more.

A workshop on Food Composition Databases (WP 3) was organized, in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 2012 . Learn more

The steering committee meeting took place in Bangkok (WP 1), Thailand, the 13th and 14th of September 2012. Learn more

A workshop on the use of the software Optifood (Linear programming - WP 4) was organized Mahidol University, Thailand, from the 17th to the 21st of September 2012. Learn more

A workshop on the MCM Methodology / Stakeholder analysis (WP 6) was organized in Jakarta, Indonesia, from the 18th to the 22th February 2013. Learn more

The Mid-term assembly meeting, and steering commitee meeting (WP 1) were held in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, from the 26th of February to the 1st of March 2013. Learn more

A workshop and conference on food based approach intervention (WP 7) was held in Bangkok, Thailand from the 24th to the 28th of June 2013. Learn more

A second workshop on the MCM Methodology / Stakeholder analysis (WP 6), to train partners to analyse the MCM data, took place in Vientiane, Laos, 26-30 August 2013.

Symposium on SMILING project (WP 8), International Congress of Nutrition, in Granada, Spain, 16 sept 2013 Learn more

Steering commitee meeting (WP 1), in Vientiane, Laos, 2-3 October 2013 Learn more

Final assembly meeting , in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2-4 April 2014, and Final dissemination event 5 April 2014 Learn more

The Kick-off Meeting held in Montpellier Tuesday 6th and Wenesday the 7th of March was a great opportunity for the people of the consortium to meet each other, and set the basis of the work for this 2 years project. The six experts from the Advisory Board f the project gave a great insight to meet ...

During the life of the SMILING project, different workshops have been organized in all the target countries. They enable the team of a workpackage to set the workplan and define the methodology.

Participants of the WP-3 training workshop on Food Composition Databases From 16-27th of April 2012 the WP-3 training workshop on Food Composition Databases took place at the National Institute of Nutrition, in Ha Noi, Vietnam. This training was co-organised by Wageningen University and the ...

The objective of the workshop was to traine partners from SEA countries on the use of the data extraction Framework and the way to run the mathematical models developped by LSTHM, the Optifood software.Country-specific data will be compiled, synthesized and reviewed to produce a preliminary report ...

CompositionThe External Advisory Board is composed of 6 experts chosen in consideration of their implication and individual expertise and experience in S&T cooperation between Europe and South-East Asia. The Advisory board includes a representative from main international organizations working ...

Overall strategy of the work plan Our work plan consists of 8 work packages that are structured in the following way and illustrated graphically below: WP1 : Project coordination and management carried out throughout the life of the project WP2, WP3, WP4 : Data collection and analysis carried out ...

ObjectivesThe overall management plan for the project is aimed at achieving the following objectives:1. Co-ordination and management of the project at scientific, technical, financial and administrative levels;2. Monitoring results to control their scientific and technical quality with regard to ...

Description of workScientific evidence during the past few decades have been highlighting the importance of micronutrient malnutrition. However lessons learned on strategies to improve micronutrient situation in developing countries include that success is often variable, and dependent on many ...

Description of worksHigh quality data on the nutritional composition of foods are essential for estimating the risk of inadequate nutrient intakes, selecting nutrient dense foods to improve local diets and for mathematical modeling (WP4). Without it, incorrect conclusion can be drawn regarding the ...

Learn more about the first publication on WP 4, related to SMILING outcomes in Cambodia (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) Description of works Sustainable, long-term improvements in micronutrient intakes can only be achieved through food-based interventions. A novel approach based on ...

Interventions to improve nutritional status are of critical importance to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Micronutrient deficiencies, mainly iron, zinc, vitamin A and iodine deficiencies affect billions of people worldwide, are responsible for more than one million child deaths per ...