Essential Nutrition Programs In The Health Sector
Understanding the essential nutrition actions and essential hygiene actions framework.
Essential nutrition programs in the health sector. This document includes who guidance on nutrition interventions targeting the first 1000 days of life. The purpose of this tool is to help an organization assess its ability to implement nutrition programs within the health sector using the ena frame work. Such as those of the lancet to highlight the proven actions that need to be taken to scale within the health sector. The ena framework requires integration of key messages and services into all existing health sector programs.
Actions should target the different causes to reach sustainable change which requires a multisectoral approach. While most nutrition interventions are delivered through the health sector non health interventions can also be critical. This tool looks holistically at personnel documents and systems in place at the organizational and implementing partner levels if applicable. This document provides a compact of who guidance on nutrition interventions targeting the first 1000 days of life.
4 in particular integration means reaching mothers and their babies and children at critical contact points such as in maternal health and prenatal care in delivery and neonatal care in postpartum care for mothers and infants. Design a capacity building strategy tailored made to enable program managers health workers other agents agriculture. At community level the ena approach is practical and easy enough to expand coverage of standard nutrition messages and actions beyond the health sector. Actions should target the different causes to reach sustainable change which requires a multisectoral approach.