This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
NUTRIPASS "Prevention of malnutrition and associated pathologies" department
UMR Nutripass
BP 64501
911, avenue Agropolis
34394 Montpellier Cedex
FRANCE
Jacques BERGER , Coordinator
Gentiane BLANCHARD , Manager
Tel : + 33 (0)4 67 41 63 67
Fax: + 33 (0)4 67 41 61 57
Ministry of Health, Cambodia - National Maternal and Child Health Center
The National Maternal and Child Health Center
National Maternal and Child Health Center (NMCHC) is a government institution under the Ministry of Health in Cambodia responsible for improving maternal and child health and reducing maternal and child mortality to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 & 5.
NMCHC provides both preventive and cure through NMCH clinics and National Program including the National Nutrition Program (NNP), the National Reproductive Health Program (NRHP), the National Immunization Programme (NIP) and a training unit. The National Nutrition Program plays an important role in improving maternal and child nutrition status and contributes to the reduction of maternal and child mortality and morbidity.
To this date NNP has had an important role in conducting research in Cambodia with the collaboration of development partners including WHO, UNICEF, USAID, HKI and other NGOs such as Save the Children, and the National Institute of Public Health Laboratory. During this time HKI has been one of NNP’s key partners in conducting research.
Main tasks in the project
The NMCHC will be co-leader of WP7 (integration in policy) and WP8 (dissimination) and will contribute to WP2 (data and intervention mapping), WP4 (linear programming) and WP6 (multi-criteria mapping).
"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)