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Community Nutrition Action for Child Survival

Introduction

How to use community nutrition action for child survival

Part I - Community nutrition problems and interventions

Unit 1: The nutrition of women and children

Session 1: What is malnutrition?

Session 2: Focus on the nutrition of women and children

Session 2: Focus on women and children

Session 3: Important causes of malnutrition in women and children

Session 4: Community nutrition action for child survival

Unit 2: Measuring and monitoring growth in young children

Session 1: Measuring growth

Session 2: Arm circumference

Session 3: The road to health chart

Session 4: The thinness chart

Session 6: Counseling, referral and follow-up of malnourished children

Unit 3: Promoting breastfeeding

Session 1: The importance of breastfeeding

Session 2: Helping mothers breastfeed

Session 3: Breastfeeding information for Kenyans

Unit 4: Introducing weaning practices in the community

Session 1: Changing weaning practices

Session 2: Making improved meaning foods in the home

Session 3: Weaning food practice

Session 4: Case study: Village weaning food projects in Thailand

Session 5: Weaning foods - Village production techniques

Unit 5: Preventing diarrhea

Session 1: Preventing diarrhea*

Session 2: Diarrhea home management

Session 3: Community activities to prevent diarrhea*

Unit 6: Immunization

Session: Improving immunization coverage - The community's role

Unit 7: Family planning and nutrition

Session 1: Family planning and nutrition

Session 2: Providing the facts about family planning

Session 3: Community-based distribution of family planning methods

Part II - Planning nutrition action projects

Unit 1: Working with the community to improve nutrition

Session: Simulation exercise

Unit 2: Finding the causes of malnutrition

Session 1: Conducting a community nutrition mini-survey

Session 2: Analyzing community nutrition information

Unit 3: Deciding what to do

Session 1: Visits to on-going nutrition projects

Session 2: Case studies/panel discussion

Unit 4: Planning nutrition action projects

Session 1: Describing the problem

Session 2: Writing project goals and objectives

Session 3: Choosing project activities

Session 4: Developing a project work plan

Session 5: Planning how to evaluate

Session 6: Preparing a budget

Unit 5: Session: Writing a project proposal/Mini-Workshop

Session: Writing a project proposal Mini-Workshop

Part III - Project management systems

Unit 1: Training community nutrition workers

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: Assessing training needs/writing objectives

Session 3: Choosing training methods

Session 4: Scheduling training content

Unit 2: Evaluating Progress

Session 1: What do he need to know? How can we find out?

Session 2: Records and reports

Session 3: A prototype record keeping system

Session 4: Evaluating activities with the community

Unit 3: Supervising community nutrition activities

Session 1: The role of the supervisor

Session 2: Identifying and solving problems

Session 3: Problem-solving/role play

Session 4: Planning and conducting supervision visits