Timor-Leste: UNICEF-WFP joint project on children food security and nutrition in Timor Leste

The proposed UNICEF-WFP joint project is expected to have an impact on access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food, at all times, to meet dietary needs for an active and healthy life and the information and counselling on improved feeding and caring practices by women and children by 2011.

The project’s focus will be on infant and young child feeding, nutrients commodities and micro-nutrients supplementation, community management of acute malnutrition linked with supplementary feeding, and establishment of a food security and nutrition surveillance system. The project will also endeavour innovation of implementation modalities as basis for scaling-up effective interventions such as multiple micronutrients (Sprinkles) supplementation and salt iodization.