Course: Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis

Topic outline

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This course covers the basic concepts of malnutrition, describes how nutritional status is assessed, and identifies the most commonly used nutrition indicators. It also explains what the criteria to consider when selecting the indicators in specific contexts and situations.
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System Requirements

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Audience
Audience

The target audience of the e-learning course includes: mid-level managers, technical staff, field personnel who are involved in the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of food security information, as well as, planners, policy formulators and programme managers who are involved in monitoring progress in poverty reduction, and meeting food security goals and targets.
You will learn about
You will learn about
- Concept of malnutrition
- Factors influencing nutritional status
- Relationships between nutrition, health and mortality
- Strengths and weaknesses of the main sources of nutritional status information
- Indicators of nutritional status and the causes of malnutrition
- Criteria for selecting nutrition indicators in specific contexts
Course structure
Course structure
The course consists of 3 lessons, ranging from approximately 30 to 45 minutes duration each:
- Lesson 1 - Nutritional Status and Food Security
- Lesson 2 - Assessing Nutritional Status
- Lesson 3 - Nutritional Status Indicators
Partners
Partners

Topic outline

System Requirements

Audience

You will learn about

Course structure

Partners

Food Security Concepts and Frameworks

Resilience in Food Security Analysis

Targeting

Food Security Information Systems and Networks

Food Security Policies - Formulation and Implementation

Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis

Markets Assessment and Analysis

Availability Assessment and Analysis

Baseline Food Security Assessments

Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis

Reporting Food Security Information

Collaboration and Advocacy Techniques

Communicating for Food Security

Addressing Corruption in the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests

Enhancing participation in CODEX activities

Food Composition Data

Agreeing on causes of malnutrition for joint action

Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods: Basic concepts

Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes

Pesticide management and child labour prevention

Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems

Productive employment and decent work in rural areas

Trade, Food Security and Nutrition

Enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of Food Security Cluster Coordination

Safeguarding land tenure rights in the context of agricultural investments

Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture

SDG Indicator 2.1.2 - Using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

Food loss analysis case study methodology

Migration and Youth in Rural Areas

The Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems

How to conduct a Nutrition Situation Analysis

Agriculture in International Trade Agreements

Climate-smart soil and land management

Climate-smart crop production

Climate-smart livestock production

Water management for climate-smart agriculture

Introduction to climate-smart agriculture

Understanding the risk environment in agriculture

Assessing risk in agriculture

Agricultural risk management tools

Agricultural risk management strategy, policy and mainstreaming

Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - fundamentals

Understanding rural poverty

Bivalve Mollusc Sanitation: Growing Area Risk Profile

SDG Indicator 2.4.1 - Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction to child labour in agriculture

Engaging stakeholders to end child labour in agriculture

Using data and knowledge to end child labour in agriculture

Incorporating child labour in policies and strategies

Addressing child labour in agricultural programmes

Monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture

Communicating effectively to end child labour in agriculture

Investing responsibly in agricultural land

Reducing rural poverty: policies and approaches

Increasing the impact of rural poverty reduction strategies

Introduction to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Protocols for Acute Food Insecurity

Rinderpest Disease Recognition

Home-Grown School Feeding