Mysore Declaration: Capacity Strengthening in Nutrition

Mysore Declaration: capacity strengthening in nutrition.

Declaration of Olympia on nutrition and fitness.

The Second International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness met at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, Greece, from 23 to 25 May 1992. The conference was organized by the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health (U.S.A.), the Hellenic Sports Research Institute (Greece), and the Spyros Louis Olympic Athletic Center of Athens; its sponsors included numerous private-sector companies, governm...

Introducing a new monitoring manual for home fortification and strengthening capacity to monitor nutrition interventions.

Lack of monitoring capacity is a key barrier for nutrition interventions and limits programme management, decision making and programme effectiveness in many low-income and middle-income countries. A 2011 global assessment reported lack of monitoring capacity was the top barrier for home fortification interventions, such as micronutrient powders or lipid-based nutrient supplements. A Manual for...

Strengthening capacity for health research in Africa

Health research has a key role in the development of low-income and middle-income countries. There are several current initiatives that have greatly contributed to capacity strengthening of health research in sub-Saharan Africa, including those supported by WHO and Tropical Disease Research (TDR), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC...

Strengthening resilience for food security and nutrition

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework to inform the understanding, scope and modalities for the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) 1 to support the resilience of food-insecure people in relation to shocks that affect their livelihoods and food systems. The framework provides a way for the agencies to seek and build complementary alignment across existing agency-specific approaches to suppor...