Youth Leaders for Nutrition
Urgent actions
Train and sensitize community on Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition Women Empowerment to reduce alcohol consumption among women Male engagements to sensitize men on Infant and Young Child
A joining plan to close the gap in nutrition between the mountainous and urban areas in Vietnam
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1) All participant signed the pledging Commitment to End Malnutrition Among Children 2) At the dialogue, World Vision Viet Nam and National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) had been signed the MOU to implement ENOUGH campaign in 3 years from 2024 - 2026 which can help to address the nutrition challenges listed in the context 3) An ac action plan for FY24 (August and September 2024) had been signed at the launching event between World Vision Viet Nam and National Institute of Nutrition which invested 16,805 USD for ENOUGH campaign in FY24 4) Media shared more about the ENOUGH campaign to engage pub... Read morelic for action on ending malnutrition among children Read less
National Policy Dialogue on Hunger and Malnutrition
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Policy ASKS • Government should increase budget allocation to sustain the school feeding programme • Government should improve the quality of food served to meet the nutrition needs of the children • Government should design a framework for the recruitment of qualified and resourceful caterers for the school feeding programme • Ensure collaboration between The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Local Government and the Ministry of Finance • Increase the coverage of the school feeding program to harder to reach an... Read mored deprived communities, Read less
A time with children
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• The children suggested that there should be a mass education on nutrition, and they should be the frontrunners to do the mass education. • The children also suggested that health workers in collaboration with NGOs should educate their parents on how to prepare nutritious dishes at home • They also mentioned that government and other stakeholders support parents to cultivate varieties of food crops including vegetables to meet the household nutritional demand and requirements. • Government to revamp and scale up the school feeding program and ensure balance diets are prepared for the ... Read morechildren at school. • Intensifying education on the nutritional requirements for growth of children to ensure parents and caregivers turn away from cultural and religious practices and beliefs that prevent children from taking in the required nutrients they need to grow. • Governments to minimize importation of synthetic foods and encourage the consumption of locally grown foods. • Children are of the view that, most parents and caregivers are interested in using their arable lands for the cultivation of cash crops like cocoa and some used it for only Ginger. They wish that, those parents establish backyard gardens to produce vegetables that will meet their nutritional requirements. • Parents and caregivers to stop spending excessively on funerals and festivals as well as weddings and provide adequate nutritious foods at home. Read less
Khulna/Barishal Children’s Workshop
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• Mass Awareness on Health and Nutrition including negative impacts; • Enhance practices of parents and caregivers; • Create job opportunity of male & female and reducing the poverty rate; • Need to increase the ration's serving size; • Increase allowance for pregnant and vulnerable families; • Be aware and prevent early marriage; • Ensure quality health service access; • Prevent gender discrimination and aware father/husband for family and child care; • Initiate Kitchen gardening and use fellow land for cultivating vegetable and fruits; • Increase technical capacity to... Read more face disaster related risk/challenges; • Take wide scale initiatives for modern agriculture production, domestic animal rearing and fisheries; • List down the ultra-poor family of a community and provide financial support Go/ NGO and implement Govt policies properly; • Increasing the rate of education and start school feeding program; • Reduce child labor; • Tree Plantation/ forestation in large scale; • Take initiatives for keeping balance on food price in market and preventing the reserve syndicates of regular products; • All sector stakeholders should take initiative accordingly like health institute, agriculture department, social welfare department, Upazilla & Union parishad and parents; Ensure safe food & natural compost for production. Influence government policies Advocacy to increase budget allocation by the local government Find the policy gaps of Health, nutrition and food security Influence donors to allocate 50% budget on children and women nutrition Nutrition sensitive crops should be introduced Saves money with the help of upper-class people or different organizations etc to make gardening Providing small scale financial resources to the families Income is the key to eliminating hunger. Employing women through various trainings Read less
Savings For Transformation Groups commitment to all children under five years of age having access to the nourishment they need
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1. There is an immediate need to conduct community conversations to help parents, guardians, and caregivers understand nutrition and possibly conduct cooking demonstrations, especially for breastfeeding and expecting mothers. 2. The team is ready to conduct more recruitment of members into the S4T to help others improve their income levels. This will enable them to afford nutritious foods at home. 3. Traditional and faith leaders should be involved in educating families about the importance of storing enough food to last 12 months after harvest. Possibly come up with a by-law to enforce this u... Read morendertaking. Read less
Dialogo de Nutrición para la Prevención de la Desnutrición Crónica Infantil
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- Campaña edu-comunicacional sobre DCI en kichwa (idioma local) y español. - Trabajo articulado entre instituciones. - Asumir responsabilidades iniciando en el hogar, a nivel comunitario y autoridades locales así como nacionales. - Inversión en proyectos de agua potable, priorizar esto proyectos a nivel comunitario. - Fomentar y concientizar el involucramiento de la familia en la crianza de los niños. - Generar espacios para que las familias puedan compartir experiencias positivas de salud y nutrición. - Generar políticas públicas a nivel nacional y local con enfoque en prevención de ... Read morela DCI Read less
Lead Farmers View of Nutrition at Household and Community Levels.
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1. They need access to resources such as small loans to invest in their fields and diversify crop production. The extra resources will also enable farmers to expand their farms and run them as businesses. This will increase income generation, allowing them to afford nutritious foods. 2. They need the construction of productive infrastructure, such as earth dams, and the provision of mechanized systems to enable them to conduct agricultural activities throughout the year. 3. Farmers are looking for partnerships with civil society to conduct community conversations and raise the levels of nutrit... Read moreion knowledge among mothers and caregivers, including fellow farmers. 4. They want traditional and faith leaders to advocate for crop diversification at the community level, as they hold a certain level of influence among their subjects. This will help break the traditional norms of monocropping among the many community members. 5. Farmers want the government to revise the Fertilizer Support Program (FISP) to include other nutrient-dense crops. Currently, farmers limit the scope of cultivation because other crops are not supported, and no market is available. Read less
ENOUGH Nutrition Dialogue with Children
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1. Financial Support for Healthy Food: • Direct Assistance: The Government and NGOs to provide money for our parents to to purchase nutritious foods, ensuring they can afford fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. 2. Education on Nutrition: • Workshops for Parents: Conduct workshops focused on the importance of nutrition, teaching parents how to prepare balanced meals on a budget. • School Programs: Implement nutrition education in schools to teach children about healthy eating habits and the benefits of various food groups. 3. Family Involvement in Meal Planning: • Cooking Together: Pr... Read moreomote cooking as a family activity where children can learn to prepare nutritious meals, fostering a positive relationship with food. 4. Access to Fresh Produce: • Community Gardens: Initiate community gardens where families can grow their own fruits and vegetables, reducing reliance on store-bought items. Read less
Important of Exclusive Breastfeeding to Health and wellness of Babies
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1:One of the action they suggested was that ,we are supposed to bring some nutritious food stuff for them to encourage them. 2: Another one said that the price of fuel should reduce as that will help with the hardship 3: the government should declare free medical care because a lot of people died in the hospital for lack of funds to pay for commencement of treatment.
Exclusive breastfeeding
Urgent actions
The urgent actions identified by the women include: 1. They suggested Nutrition education should be provided by pregnant women often 2. They proposed venturing into agriculture expecially planting of vegetables or making home gardens. Also they understand the importance of fish as one of the biggest nutrain to their children. 3. Financial support. Government role: the government should provide nutritious food for pregnant women in the hospitals. 4. Brest feeding babies as often as possible. Choosing more nutritious food to eat as pregnant women or nursing mother's than anything they see. 5. Dr... Read moreugs that contains zinc & iron should be given to them during child birth. Read less
Brazilian perspectives on nutrition
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• One of the biggest problems in our municipality is the poor management of school meals. I do not think it is a problem for the government but for the programme administrators. • Sometimes, it is so bad that we only get biscuits, water, and salt. Can you imagine no proteins and no vegetables? • I think the worst thing is when they say that students are receiving proper meals, but in reality, we often only have cuscus with milk. • Something that needs to be urgently improved is that the food often has no taste. • Bad quality is the major problem; there are no nutrients, no proteins, ... Read moreand never meat. • For me, the worst is that the system of serving food to the students is too slow. For example, many times, we queue for 40 minutes to get our food and have only 10 minutes left to eat. This needs to change/ • The lunch at our school has few proteins. • The most embarrassing thing is the fact that lunch for teachers is much better than lunch for students. • We see too many inequalities in school lunch. The food quality and distribution amongst different types of schools are massively different. In my school, it is very bad, but in my cousin's school, it is much better. Read less
Tackling the adverse effects of malnutrition in the society
Urgent actions
Provision of quality education and subsidy on agricultural products
Addressing the Effects of Malnutrition on Pregnant Women and Newborns; solutions for a Healthier Future
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1. They want government to please provide resources necessary to improve yield. 2. Government or NGOs to provide iron and folic acid supplements free at hospitals for pregnant women because they can't afford it. This will help to prevent micronutrients deficiency during pregnancy and child birth, because if pregnant women have micronutrients deficiency cause serious birth defects in the body and it help to reduce malnutrition among pregnant women and the baby will be healthy.
Voices of Tomorrow: Young people Solutions to Hunger and Malnutrition
Urgent actions
Provision of high yield crops Affordable, accessible and available food for all School feeding programmes/ house to house feeding programmes
Youth and Food Insecurity: How does it affect us?
Urgent actions
One of their key recommendations is to make school gardens mandatory in public schools, teaching practical farming skills and improving nutrition among students.
Malnutrition and young people: Our vulnerabilities and solutions
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Proposed Solutions The dialogue concluded with a brainstorming session on potential solutions to address malnutrition in the community: Government Subsidies for Agricultural Inputs: Participants urged the government to subsidize the cost of farming inputs, making them more accessible to local farmers. Provision of Clean Water: The need for clean water sources was emphasized, with participants advocating for government intervention to ensure the community has access to safe drinking water. Self-Sufficiency in Food Production: Community members discussed the importance of not solely relying on g... Read moreovernment assistance. They encouraged local initiatives to cultivate crops that meet the community's dietary needs. Read less
The Kingdom of God and Hunger: Realizing God’s Vision of Justice and Social Compassion
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Working with faith community is not as easy as it seen. The community have to see the result first before they decide to support and involve. During mutual corporation, community members are never complete especially men that used to be busy. But they never give up. Now many things grow, such as: (1) The men are involved with making hydroponics, the women are taking care of it. (2) Hydroponics is also practiced at the school, and the yield is shared with the teachers and students. (3) Hydroponics is also practiced at the Integrated Service Post (Posyandu) and the yields are used to fulfill chi... Read moreldren's nutrition. (4) In addition to fulfilling nutrition, the results are also for the family economy and then they are established ASCA groups. Read less
Impact-plus Youths Involvement in Nutrition at Community Level.
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The first action is to request the government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, to widen and diversify the scope of the Fertilizer Input Support Program to include groundnuts, soya beans, sweet potatoes, fruits, etc. This action will encourage farmers to diversify their farms and harvest the necessary crops to provide nutrition at home. Secondly, they submitted that Youths must be allowed to participate in farming. Due to land matters, most Youths are discouraged from farming as land is not readily available for such ventures. Youth empowerment came out very strongly to improve nutrition i... Read moren the community because income generation leads to a better life and food availability. Traditional leaders must provide the much-needed land to promote food production in the area. Churches and other civil society organizations need to help with knowledge dissemination and conduct practical cooking lessons, especially for pregnant and lactating mothers. This will help reduce ignorance regarding the consumption of nutrient-dense foods. Youths recommended the training of farmers on the use of organic fertilizers as opposed to dependent on FISP from the government or buying from commercial dealers. Read less
Forum sur la Nutrition : Écoutons la Voix des Enfants
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Les participants de notre atelier de dialogue nutritionnel ont identifié plusieurs actions urgentes visant à améliorer la nutrition au sein de leur communauté. Parmi ces actions, la sensibilisation à une alimentation équilibrée et nutritive a été considérée comme une priorité majeure par les participants. Ils ont souligné l'importance de l'éducation nutritionnelle et de la promotion des choix alimentaires sains pour les enfants et les familles au moyen d'ateliers éducatifs, de séances d'information et de campagnes de sensibilisation. De plus, les participants ont mis l'accent s... Read moreur la nécessité de renforcer l'accès à des aliments nutritifs, notamment en promouvant la disponibilité d'aliments frais et de qualité au sein de leur communauté. Ils ont proposé des initiatives telles que la création de jardins communautaires, l'organisation de marchés de producteurs locaux et la mise en place de programmes de distribution d'aliments nutritifs pour les familles défavorisées. Par ailleurs, les participants ont exprimé le besoin d'impliquer activement les enfants et les jeunes dans la promotion de bonnes pratiques nutritionnelles. Ils ont suggéré la création de clubs de nutrition au sein des écoles, l'organisation d'activités ludiques et éducatives axées sur la nutrition, ainsi que l'encouragement des initiatives de sensibilisation menées par les jeunes au sein de leur communauté. En ce qui concerne la mise en œuvre de ces actions, les participants ont proposé de collaborer avec les autorités locales, les établissements scolaires, les organisations communautaires et les acteurs de la société civile pour concrétiser ces initiatives. Ils ont préconisé la création de partenariats durables et inclusifs afin de mobiliser les ressources nécessaires, de bénéficier de l'expertise locale et de garantir une mise en œuvre efficace. Read less