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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