Workforce Nutrition and Large-Scale Food Fortification: A Synergistic Approach to Combating Malnutrition in Nigeria
Urgent actions
• Agree on definition of healthy meals to promote for WFN. • Develop and enforce right WFN policies, systems and programs that respond to public service rules and labour laws. • Develop WFN programmes implementation templates with options for formal, informal, public, private, urban, and rural contexts, with a minimum non-negotiable standard. • Create awareness on the significance of good nutrition in the workplace. • Employ use of technology for nutrition education, nutrition and health monitoring, and accountability. • Carry out health and hygiene check before hiring cafeteria st... Leer másaff to address food safety concerns. • Explore opportunities for public private partnerships for WFN programmes. • Integrate WFN variables into monitoring and inspection frameworks and enforcement checklists of Ministry of Labour for monitoring compliance. • Implement WFN Scorecard to classify workplaces based on compliance with WFN pillars - Platinum, Gold, and Silver, with nutrition incorporated as a key indicator of a 'Good Place to Work'. • Make rice fortification mandatory. • Create awareness with industry, consumers and policy makers on the importance and benefits of rice fortification. Ensure political buy-in to shape policies for mandatory rice fortification for improving public health outcomes. • Build capacity of small-scale rice millers for effective implementation of mandatory rice fortification; of regulators and laboratories for enhancing regulatory effectiveness and improving analytical competence; and of local artisans for local fabrication and maintenance of blending equipment. • Ensure availability of Fortified Rice Kernels (FRKs) and ensure packaging of FRKs in smaller, affordable quantities for small-scale rice millers. To ensure sustainability, encourage and facilitate in-country production of FRKs. • Develop standards for FRKs and fortified milled rice. • Establish framework for monitoring compliance with established mandatory rice fortification standards. Leer menos



