This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
NUTRIPASS "Prevention of malnutrition and associated pathologies" department
UMR Nutripass
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Jacques BERGER , Coordinator
Gentiane BLANCHARD , Manager
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WP 7 : Integration of priority interventions in National Policies: Policy advocacy and developing Road Map
learn more on the conference on Food Based Approach Interventions organized in Bangkok, June 2013 . Press release
Description of works
The global objective of this work-package to advocate for the strategies selected in previous work- package 6 and to formulate a roadmap for their integration in national nutrition programs.
It aims at demonstrating the contribution that improved nutrition can make to human health and development in each SEA country and to influence policy makers to better consider public nutrition issues and the priority to invest in nutrition programs.
Advocacy will be more performing if key policymakers or key stakeholders are integrated in the project since its beginning, regularly updated on the advance of the project and adequately informed on the urgent need for these priority interventions to improve the health of women and children.
Participants of the consortium especially from the five SEA Partner countries will play an essential role in these advocacy efforts by implementing a process of "information-strategy-action programming" according to the development plan of the project.
The advocacy plan "information-strategy-programming action" in this project is consequently declined throughout the project over the different WPs and driven by WP7.
The "information" stage refers to the activities that are involved in identifying, describing, and quantifying the extent of a public nutrition problem in each SEA country (its patterns of occurrence, risk and protective factors, causal sequences, program effectiveness for each level of prevention, barriers to effectiveness...).
The "strategy stage" relates to the activities that are involved in using the available information to identify what needs to change to improve public nutrition. This includes accurately conveying the information to professional and lay audiences, specifying priority interventions ²and time frames, mobilizing coalitions to work on the issue and toward the objectives, developing means to foster needed changes, and publicizing these elements. WP5 and WP6 are dealing with theses aspects as well as Tasks 7.2 and 7.3.
The "action programming" stage in Task 7.4 involves the advocacy of the roadmap developed in Task 7.3 among policymakers and stakeholders with the challenge to convince policymakers to integrate these interventions into national programs and plan their implementation in near future.
Objectives
1. Advocate among key policymakers and stakeholders the priority interventions
2. Define operational requirements and country-specific guidelines and policy to implement food based approaches, especially food fortification.
3. Develop, based on outcomes from WP6, a roadmap that will guide integration of the priority interventions into national nutrition programs to ensure the project’s impact
Tasks
- Identification and early integration and participation of key policymakers and stakeholders in the project
- Development of guidelines for implementing and monitoring food fortification in SEA countries
- Development of the roadmap
- Advocacy interventions to be integrated into national nutrition programs
"SMILING for Action", Final dissemination event, 3rd April, Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
The final dissemination event will be organized Thursday 3rd of April 2014, at Sofitel Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. The five national roadmaps of priority interventions to prevent micronutrient deficiencies during the project will be presented to a large audience of stakeholders, policymakers, representatives of International organizations involved in nutrition policies implementation.
Publication on the project in "Food and Nutrition Bulletin"
The SMILING project was the topic of a publication in Food and Nutrition Bulletin , vol. 34, no. 2 (sup.), "The SMILING project: A North–South–South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia" Berger J. et al
SMILING outcomes at the Micronutrient Forum Conference
Two presentations at the Micronutrient Forum Global Conference (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2014) will be about specically SMILING. Many researchers from the project will present outcomes related to the project.
The SMILING project is financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (GA: 289616)