Nutrition in

Development

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What, Who, and How?

Nutrition in the Development Context
Example of Global Projects

Competition and Partners

Cardno Quals
Looking Forward Recommendations and Suggestions

Talk the Global Nutrition Lingo

Anemia low red blood cell counts or hemoglobin in blood. Specific problem for
women and adolescents, especially pregnant women.
Fortification Process of adding micronutrients to food (ex. iodized salt).
GAM (Global Acute Malnutrition) measurement of the nutritional status of a
population, usually in emergency situations such as with refugees.
NACS Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support.
RUTF (ready-to-use therapeutic foods) foods designed for specific purposes
such as dietary supplementation.
Stunting - Moderate or severe deviations from median weight for height of
reference population

Why is it important?
Who doesnt like food? But it is deeper than that First some stats:

One out of nine people in the world are undernourished (2014 -2016
projection) that means roughly 795 million people

2 billion people over 30% of the worlds population are anemic (mostly
due to iron deficiency)

In developing countries, every second pregnant woman and about 40% of

preschool children are estimated to be anemic.

Nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five is caused by poor nutrition.

Where in the world?

Types of Nutritional Activities

Nutrition exists in a number of different forms in projects. Programs can be
completely centered around nutrition or contain nutritional activities as one of
the cross sectional components.
Examples of activities that fall under nutrition include:
> NACS training and support
> Supplementation and RUTF
> Agriculture
> Food security and emergencies
> Research and Policy
> Private Sector Partnerships

http://mananutrition.org/what-is-mana-whats-rutf

USAIDs Nutritional Strategy: 2014 - 2025

Main goal: Improve nutrition to save lives, build resilience, increase economic
productivity and advance development.

Decrease chronic malnutrition, measured by stunting, by 20% through USAIDs various

programming

Reduce number of stunted children by a minimum of 2 million through the Feed the
Future Program.

In response to humanitarian crisis, USAID would like to maintain a GAM below the
emergency threshold of 15%.

WHO Global Targets 2025

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/g
lobaltargets2025_policybrief_overview/en/

Examples of Projects and Quals

FANTA
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA) project strengthens nutrition
and food security policies, strategies, programs and systems in developing
countries through:
Development
of tools and
training

Acute
malnutrition
management

Building
national
nutritional
capacity

Integration of
gender issues

TA to enhance
MNCH
programs

Currently active in Cte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Lesotho,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.

Nutritional Assessment, Counseling and Support

http://www.fhi360.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/FANTA-NACS-TechNote-Jul2012.pdf

SPRING (currently 2011-2016)

The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and
Innovations in Nutrition Globally project
(SPRING) is dedicated to strengthening global
and country efforts to scale up high-impact
nutrition practices and policies.

Currently active in: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso and Niger

(Sahel), Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Kyrgyz
Republic, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda

Strengthening
Systems for
Nutrition

Linking
Agriculture
& Nutrition

Preventing
Anemia

Catalyzing
Social and
Behavior
Change

Food for Peace

The Title II Food for Peace program is the key USAID program that responds to
emergency needs such as disasters and crises.
Food for Peace programs also offer development food assistance to target the underlying
causes of malnutrition and undernutrition.
< Local and Regional
Purchases

< Cash Transfers for

Food

Food in-Kind >

Food Vouchers >

Food for Progress

USDAs Food for Progress programs respond to non-emergency food aid
situations by:

supporting agricultural value chain development

expanding revenue and production capacity
increasing incomes in food insecure countries.

Past projects have trained farmers in animal and plant health, improved farming
methods, developed road and utility systems, established producer
cooperatives, provided microcredit, and developed agricultural value chains.

Competition/Partners
Competition

Competencies

Save the Children

Areas: Food security/emergency, Fortification, MNCH

Regions: Africa, Asia, Europe. LAC

Path

Areas: Fortification, MNCH, Research & Policy

Regions: Africa, Asia , Europe

FHI 360

Areas: Private Sector, Food Security/Emergency, NACS,

Supplementation, MNCH, Research and Policy
Regions: Global

ACDI VOCA

Areas: Food Security and Emergencies, Agriculture, Supplementation,

Fortification, MNCH, Research and Policy
Regions: Global

GAIN

Areas: Fortification, Private Sector Partnerships, Agriculture, MNCH

Regions: Middle East, Africa, Asia, LAC

Freedom from Hunger

Areas: Private Sector Partnerships microfinance intiatives

Regions: Africa, Asia, LAC

Cardno Quals US Office

USAID/Uganda Private Health Support Program (PHS)

Uganda: 2013 2018, $ 23,547,314

We provide NACS support to clinics, assist with RUTF distribution grants, provide grants for school gardening projects
and train OVC caretakers in nutritional topics and food safety.

Avansa Agrikultura Project

Timor-Leste: 2015 2020, $19,201,859

Addressing the key challenges of rural poverty, natural resource degradation, food insecurity, and under-nutrition.

Maternal and Child Health Sustainable Technical Assistance and Research Initiative (MCH-STAR)

India: 2007 2012, $13,835,478

1) Evaluation of Malnutrition Treatment Centres and prospect of children after rehabilitation in Jharkhand 2) Study of the
Social Determinants and Health Facility Management of Childhood Malnutrition in Jharkhand and UP 3) Decision Guide
for Growth Monitoring and Promotion

REDSO Food Security Portfolio Evaluation

Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe: 2006, $130,649

Evaluation of the performance and impact of the USAID/REDSO Food Security Strategic Objective through the lenses of
agriculture, trade, private sector, monitoring and evaluation, organizational design, and gender against the backdrop of
East African culture and politics.

Cardno Quals UK Office

Study to Identify and Formulate an 11th EDF Action for Sustainable Agricultural and Food and
Nutrition Security
Angola: 2014-2015, 291,904
Aimed to improve food and nutrition security for vulnerable agricultural households,
enhance resilience of smallholder farmers and households and strengthen capacity of
smallholder farmers and agriculture extension agents.

Provision of TA to the Rural Development and Food Security sector support by the EU in South
Sudan (Food Security Thematic Program)
South Sudan: 2013-2014, 199,990
Technical support and advisory services for the programming, implementation, monitoring
and coordination of ongoing and future EU funded actions within the Rural Development
and Food Security sector
Food Security and Livelihood Programme (LIFT)
Myanmar, 2008 2009
Assisted in design of mechanism and program for a Multi Donor Trust Fund to increase
food security, improve livelihoods and reduce poverty, recovery planning for rural
economic activities and sustainable livelihood systems for the Delta, and development of
the National Medium Term Priority Framework for agriculture, food security / nutrition and
rural development.

Cardno Quals Other

Technical assistance support to Setsan for monitoring and evaluation of the MDG-Ic for Mozambique

Belgium Office / Mozambique: 2014 2018, 1,200,000

Assists SETSAN (Mozambique Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition) in
monitoring, reporting and coordination function for the Mozambique MDG initiative

Capacity Building Support to East Africa Community (EAC) in the Agriculture and Food Security
Action Plan
Australia office / Burindi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda: 2013 2014
DFAT funded capacity building of EAC Secretariats Department of Agriculture, Food
Security and Rural Development to deliver on its mandate to implement the Food Security
Action Plan 2011 2015.
Support to Quality Infrastructure in the Republic of Belarus - Food Safety
Belgium Office / Belarus: 2012-2014, 5,316,000
Sought to align the Belarusian quality infrastructure (standards, quality assurance and
metrology) and the infrastructure for food and feed safety and quality with the international
and EU regulatory and administrative practices

Looking forward
Cardno excels at:
Private Sector Partnerships
Data Analysis and Program Planning
Financial Management of Nutritional Programming
Monitoring and Evaluation
NACS Support and MNCH integration
Suggestions:
Partnerships with major technical organizations
Food for Progress/Peace Programming.

Questions?

Sources

http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/ida/en/
http://www.fhi360.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/FANTA-NACSTechNote-Jul2012.pdf
http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/food-progress
https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
http://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/food-progress/active-food-progressprojects
https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/agriculture-and-food-security/foodassistance/quick-facts