Nutritional Dialogue on most urgent and powerful ways to improve nutrition for all and World Vision Tanzania Enough Campaign contribution
Urgent actions
- Nutrition intervention to focus more on prevention of severe wasting & nutrition oedema: Emphasis was stressed on ensuring all interventions are very cost effective and target prevention more than Management of Malnutrition. Emphasis and support should be directed towards surveillance, screening and community sensitization on consumption of locally available nutritious foods. - Regions & Councils to conduct routine assesment of nutrition status rather than depending on 4 year gaps surveys: Enhanced routine monitoring will ensure tackling Malnutrition instantly and hence ensure better... Leer más results with surveys. It also helps us with evidence based decision making instantly and ending Malnutrition early. All stakeholders including WV should assist with availability of equipments and technical support in their catchment areas. - Support National efforts towards consumption of biofortified and fortified foods. The district councils to come up with CMV (Complex of Minerals & Vitamins) needs per their area and work together with the partners World Vision but espeially Harvest Plus and Sanku to emphasize the community in the consumption of fortified foods and crops. - Need to scale up PDHearth in project areas and the Government to include PDHearth in National guidelines, Plans & Agendas: WV has done well with PDHearth model its time for scale up of this evidence based community management of severe wasting & nutrition oedema. - spots implementations of interventions needs to stop: All Nutrtion interventions should rather target a small geographical area in totality than spreading out and cover small areas (spots) Leer menos