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Food Security: Health and NutritionHealth and nutrition fall under the utilization aspect of food security. Food for the Hungry Health Programming and Behavior Change ToolsBarrier Analysis (BA)
Knowledge, Practice, Coverage Methodology (KPC) TrainingDescription: The KPC is a population-based survey that provides estimates with a known precision for given health indicators. The trainings help staff to develop a KPC timeline, train interviewers and supervisors, calculate sample size, and develop questionnaires for survey design. Local Determinants of Malnutrition studyDescription: This survey is conducted to compare mothers of positive deviant children to mothers of malnourished children to facilitate the design of health and nutrition interventions. Most positive deviance (PD) studies focus on feeding practices, child care practices and care seeking practices. FH's PD study is designed to provide greater insight into all the factors that contribute to malnutrition - i.e. food and feeding practices, child care practices, care seeking practices as well as psychosocial and other environmental factors, and mothers' worldview. This study highlights factors associated with malnutrition and does not address causality. The results of the local determinants study provide insight to what practices and foods should be promoted in each country context, and what additional interventions should be added to health and nutrition programs. Lot Quality AssuranceSampling (LQAS) Trainer's Guide Description: This instruction guide helps one plan, monitor, and evaluate community health programs using a simple rapid method for data collection. The guide contains six modules covering the purposes of LQAS, where to conduct the surveys, who to interview, the type of questions needed and how to use the data after it is collected. Quality Improvement Verification Checklist (QIVC)Description: QIVCs are short checklists used to encourage, assess and improve a trainer, health worker, counselor, or volunteer's performance. QIVCs are best utilized with activities that can be observed, have multiple steps, and are repeated throughout the cycle of the program. Program Approaches and TechniquesPositive Deviance/Hearth ApproachDescription: A community based nutrition rehabilitation program that addresses childhood malnutrition in resource poor settings. This approach identifies and shares solutions (practices) already being used by community members with well nourished children who have no access to special resources (positive deviants). By identifying and using demonstrably successful local practices and resources and promoting behavior change by doing, caregivers and communities are empowered to take responsibility for nutritionally rehabilitating and maintaining good growth and health in their children. Care GroupsDescription: Written by World Relief, this guide explains the use of care groups as a strategy to achieve large-scale program coverage. Ten to fifteen community-based volunteer health educators meet regularly with paid project staff for training, supervision, and support, and in turn multiply these efforts to reach large numbers of beneficiaries. The guide gives the care group rationale and gives step by step guidance about implementing and using them in sustainable programming. Management of Severe MalnutritionDescription: Throughout the world, thousands of severely malnourished children die unnecessarily during hospital treatment. FH’s policy has been to refer all severely malnourished children to a hospital/clinical setting. However, clinical observations demonstrated that many of these children were improperly cared for – in some instances put in life threatening situations. Therefore to empower FH staff to train clinical staff in the proper management of children with malnutrition, FH conducted an 8 hour training introducing staff to training materials developed by Ann Ashworth et. al. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine. These training materials (Trainers Guide) are to be used in the training of clinical staff to provide nurses with specific skills and knowledge to enable them to improve the quality of care of severely malnourished children. The training workshop is organized around 10 essential treatment steps. Online Training ResourcesFood for the Hungry’s health team frequently uses online Elluminate sessions to train and update staff on new findings in health research. By clicking on the links below, a new browser window will open allowing you to access the recorded trainings. Epi-Info SoftwareDescription: Need help analyzing survey data for program evaluations? The trainings below will help you get started with EPI-Info, a data analysis software. Presented by Tom Davis. Tools to Build Donor RelationshipsWhere do I go to find out about local funding sources for health and food security? How do I approach the local USAID mission? How should I prepare for a meeting with donors? These two documents help to answer these questions and provide guidance for field offices in writing proposals, applying for grants, and building strong donor relationships. Resource DocumentsNutrition and Micronutrients
Nutrition Works Workshop
Positive Deviance
Program Management Tools
Research & Evaluation
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