Minimum dietary diversity for women

This course is primarily intended for members of institutions and organizations whose (nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific) work has pathways aiming to improve dietary diversity, as well as for people with an interest in the process, including:

• Policy-advisors
• Programme officers
• Statistics officers
• Academics and researchers
• UN agencies
• Non-governmental organizations

• The importance of simple, gender-sensitive, food-based indicators, such as MDD-W, to assess nutrition-related outcomes.
• How to use MDD-W to identify vulnerable groups of women.
• The skills needed to collect, analyse and interpret MDD-W data.

The course consists of 4 lessons, ranging from approximately 25 minutes to 35 duration each:

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to MDD-W
• Lesson 2 - The food groups and data collection methods
• Lesson 3 - Field work preparation
• Lesson 4 - MDD-W calculation and presentation

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