Integrated Nutrition Project

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The Integrated Nutrition Project will initiate development of a national nutrition program whose long-term goal is to improve nutritional status so that malnutrition would eventually cease to be a public health problem. The project will have three components.. The National level nutrition activities component includes four sub-components: 1) program development and institution building, to develop national capacity in nutrition and to promote needed policy research and operation research; 2) information, education and communication (IEC) development to assess current behavioral aspects relevant to nutrition an develop appropriate messages and materials for use in IEC activities through inter-personal methods at the community level and through the mass media at the national level; 3) strengthening of existing nutition activities; and 4) project management, monitoring and evaluation. The community-based nutrition component focuses on growth monitoring and promotion activities with targeted and supervised supplementary feeding at the village level in community nutrition centers, which will serve as a locus for inter-personal IEC and mobilization of community actions to promote nutrition. The inter-sectoral nutrition program development will improve nutrition by emphasizing nutritional aspects of activities in various sectors and by supporting innovative actions with potential nutrition impact.