Transforming Nutrition Ideas, Policy and Outcomes A Learning Programme

Why does nutrition need to be transformed? Undernutrition affects 170 million young children and 2 billion adults. These children and adults are at greater risk of death and illness, are less likely to enter school, less likely to learn well in school, are likely to have lower productivity as adults, be more likely to live I n poverty, and are more prone to diet related chronic disease later in life. The vast majority of undernutrition is to be found in 24 countries. Undernutrition rates are declining at historically slow rates despite growth in GDP/capita and increasingly open societies in many contexts. The courses premise is that an acceleration of undernutrition reduction requires a transformation in the way we think about undernutrition in order to change the ways in which we address it. This 5 day course takes the participant through new ways of thinking about undernutrition and what to do about it. This is the second year of the course and in 2013 the programme will: (1) benefit from the positive feedback from the fist cohort of 25 professionals (available here on the IDS website), (2) explain the new findings in the Lancet Series on nutrition scheduled for release in May 2013 in which 4 of the course convenors were involved either as coordinators or authors, and (3) build on the material prepared for the major nutrition events scheduled for 2013 and discuss the significance of the outcomes of those events and their consequences for future action. Learning Outcomes from the Transforming Nutrition Programme By the end of the programme the participants will be better able to contribute to accelerating undernutrition in their sphere of influence by a greater appreciation of: the differences between undernutrition, malnutrition, food insecurity, hunger and hidden hunger the distribution of undernutrition the causes and consequences of undernutrition what works in addressing undernutrition at the immediate, underlying and basic levels and why how to assess what works and why how to contribute to creating an enabling environment for undernutrition reduction.

Who is the Programme relevant for? The Programme is relevant for policy shapers, policymakers and practitioners who want to accelerate and intensify their own efforts to reduce undernutrition and to recruit others to doing so. Participants will come from Governments, Bilateral and Multilateral agencies, national and international NGOs, national and international media organisations and national and international think tanks. Modules Module 1: The nature of the problem (Day 1 and 2) the differences between undernutrition, malnutrition, food insecurity, hunger and hidden hunger and how they are measured the distribution of undernutrition: geographically, by age and gender, income group and ethnicity the causes of undernutrition: immediate, underlying and fundamental the consequences of undernutrition: on mortality, morbidity, productivity and poverty 1

Module 2: Knowing what to do about undernutrition and getting it done (Days 3-4) what works in addressing undernutrition at the following levels: o immediate: direct interventions aimed at improving the quality of diet and reducing infection loads o underlying indirect interventions aimed at making agriculture, social protection, womens status, sanitation and health systems more pro-nutrition o basic levels: making economic growth, poverty reduction and the policy process more nutrition sensitive how to assess what works and why o review of experimental and non experimental techniques used in evaluating nutrition relevant interventions o theories of change and indicators

Module 3: Knowing how to move nutrition up the development agenda (Days 4-5) the politics of undernutrition reduction and how to politicise undernutrition how to increase accountability for undernutrition reduction how to build resources for undernutrition reduction: financial and human how to get knowledge about what works to be used and applied

The Programme Leaders The Programme will be co-led by Lawrence Haddad and Purnima Menon. Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies and for ten years was the Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is the UKs representative on the High Level Panel of Experts who support the Committee on World Food Security and was a member of the Advisory Group to the UNs Standing Committee on Nutrition, a member of the Irish Governments Hunger Task Force and a Lead Expert to the UKs Foresight Commission on the Global Future of Farming and Food. He has field experience in India, South Africa and the Philippines. Purnima Menon is Research Fellow in IFPRIs Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, and is based at IFPRIs Asia office in New Delhi, India. She conducts applied nutrition research in the South Asia region, with a focus on programs and policies to improve maternal and child nutrition. Currently, she leads a team that is conducting impact and process evaluations of Alive and Thrive, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-supported initiative to improve infant and young child feeding and child nutrition in Bangladesh, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. She also co-directs POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India), a new 4-year initiative to build evidence, partnerships and communications to improve nutrition policy and program actions for nutrition in India and to document the impact of this initiative. Both Haddad and Menon have published extensively on the topics covered in the course. Other programme convenors will include leaders in policy and practice from Brazil, Ghana, the UN, DFID, IFPRI and IDS. Location Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, Sussex Cost 2950 including accommodation and meals

Dates 15 19 July, 2013 2