Albania: Albania: Reducing Malnutrition in Children
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $4,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNICEF, FAO, WHO
Main Achievements
- National and regional capacities strengthened to use data in developing policies and interventions in food and nutrition and to analyze the impact of policy choices on food and nutrition. Regional conference held to ensure the participation of key stakeholders in planning interventions. Data from the baseline survey is being used to plan and target interventions. Inventory produced of existing data related to food, health and nutrition.
- Training of trainers conducted on monitoring of child growth. Capacity developed of 160 health personnel to assess children’s growth, identify any problems and provide advice to families. Communications plan drafted for community interventions to improve feeding and dietary practices. Working group on nutrition modules for school curricula established and preparation of modules started.
- Albanian public health specialists are now using the international standards for improvement and development of nutrition curricula at university and post-university level.
Contact Mariana Bukli, JP Coordinator
mbukli@unicef.org
mbukli@unicef.org
The aim of the Joint Programme by UNICEF, WHO and FAO is to improve the nutritional status of infants and young children in Albania, with a special focus on the poorest populations.
It programme is contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular MDG1, by:
• Strengthening the Government of Albania’s managerial and technical capacity to prevent and address the immediate and underlying causes of undernutrition;
• Delivering better and more equitable child and maternal food, health and nutrition services;
• Developing and including a public health nutrition module in ongoing education of primary health care workers; and
• Improving the monitoring, surveillance and regulation systems in a more sustainable way.