NUTRITION INTERNATIONAL. Global Technical Services

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1 NUTRITION INTERNATIONAL Global Technical Services

2 A CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING Infant and young child nutrition and health Did you know? Nutrition International annually procures up to 75% of the world s vitamin A capsules, delivered to over 60 countries, preventing the deaths of up to 200,000 children under five per year. Adolescent and women s health and nutrition Did you know? Nutrition International works with partners to deliver adolescent nutrition programs, including weekly iron folic acid supplementation and nutrition education in schools and communities in eight countries, to reduce anemia. Alison Greig Daniel Lopez de Romaña Technical Advisor Marion Roche Andrea Papan Technical Advisor, Gender and Behaviour Change Our infant and young child nutrition and health team provides technical assistance and quality assurance for Nutrition International s programs reaching children under the age of five. This team works with staff at the country and regional level, in collaboration with governments and partners, to deliver high quality programs for this age group including: twice-yearly vitamin A supplementation for children 6-59 months, improved access to and uptake of zinc and oral rehydration salts for diarrhea management for children under five, and improved infant and young child feeding programs that emphasize exclusive and continued breastfeeding and improved complementary feeding practices for infants and children under two. This team provides leadership and support to global initiatives and partnerships, and contributes to the global research agenda and evidence base for improving infant and young children nutrition and health programs and policies. Specifically, it provides technical guidance on Nutrition International s global vitamin A capsule procurement program, and participates in international technical advisory groups such as the Global Alliance for Vitamin A (GAVA) as Chair, the Home Fortification Technical Advisory Group as member of the executive committee, and the Diarrhea and Pneumonia Working Group. Abanti Zakaria Junior Program Officer Our adolescent and women s health and nutrition team provides technical assistance and quality assurance for programs designed to improve the nutrition of adolescent girls and women through gender sensitive adolescent nutrition programs, as well as anaemia reduction strategies such as weekly iron and folic acid supplementation and nutrition education programs. This team also provides vital guidance on gender mainstreaming, which ensures our programs assess and overcome the gender inequities that impact nutritional status and well-being. Finally, it supports the design, implementation and evaluation of behaviour change interventions, most specifically demand generation strategies to ensure that interventions meet the needs of women and adolescent girls.

3 Maternal and neonatal health and nutrition Did you know? Nutrition International supports integrated nutrition programming in 10 countries for pregnant and postpartum women and newborns, including micronutrient supplements, nutrition counselling, optimal timing of cord clamping and cord care, breastfeeding support and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC). Jennifer Busch-Hallen Allison Verney Sward Technical Advisor, ENRICH Kim Harding Technical Advisor Jennifer Hatchard Project Technical Advisor Our maternal and neonatal health and nutrition team provides technical assistance and quality assurance for our programs that integrate and improve nutrition and health of pregnant and postpartum women and newborns. This team works with staff at the country and regional level, in collaboration with governments and partners, to improve the quality and uptake of antenatal care and the delivery of comprehensive maternal nutrition services, increase the provision and consumption of micronutrient supplements among pregnant and postpartum women, and support the delivery of a package of high-quality birth and newborn care interventions. It also provides leadership and support to global initiatives and partnerships, and contributes to the global research agenda and evidence base for improving maternal and neonatal health and nutrition programs and policies. This team also provides technical assistance to the Enhancing Nutrition Services to Improve Maternal and Child Health (ENRICH) project. Fortification and nutrition in food systems Did you know? Nutrition International reaches 400 million people annually including more than 125 million women of reproductive women with adequately iodized salt, protecting up to 10 million newborns from the consequences of iodine deficiency and helping to avert over 100,000 mental impairments. Noor Ahmad Khan Manpreet Chadha Our fortification team provides technical assistance and quality assurance for our programs that involve food fortification. Additionally, this team monitors the global progress in the area, leads in knowledge management in food fortification, and represents Nutrition International as required with donors, panels, working groups and partners.

4 Nutrition Information Systems Did you know? Nutrition international has developed Nutrition Intervention Monitoring Surveys (NIMS) that are harmonized for automated and externally monitored data collection and rapid reporting to inform NI programs across 10 countries. Sara Wuehler Colin Beckworth Technical Advisor, Surveillance Our Nutrition information systems team supports all program surveillance activities, providing guidance on program monitoring and quality assurance of coverage surveys to quantify Nutrition International s contribution through our nutrition programs. This team supports our regional and country officers in ensuring the quality of Nutrition international s programs, as well as providing technical support and capacity building to government agencies interested in large scale micronutrient and food consumption surveys. Related activities include supporting local teams to refine and prioritize surveillance needs; to develop survey tools and protocols that address those needs; to quality assure training, data collection, analyses, and reporting; and to build capacity of local teams through this process of technical support. Evaluation and strategic research Did you know? Nutrition International currently has over 20 research projects rigorous randomised trials, demonstration projects, cost effectiveness studies, evaluations and sustainability of nutrition interventions. Every year our global staff publish more than 25 peer reviewed publications. Chowdhury Jalal Mahbubul Islam Bhuiyan Project Manager, NLIFT DAWN Project Our evaluation and strategic research team builds evidence of the implementation efficiency of Nutrition International s programs and their impact on vulnerable populations. It provides program design support and uses implementation research to inform, course correct, and improve program implementation and delivery. Additionally, this team generates proof of concept, which examines the efficacy, safety, acceptability, and viability of promising nutrition interventions. CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE Visit our Knowledge Library for information on our research initiatives and to access our published research contributions.

5 GROWING A GLOBAL TEAM Nutrition International s work is guided by a dedicated and talented team of experts working globally and at regional levels, all towards the same goal ending malnutrition for the world s most vulnerable. Dr. Leigh Golden Deputy Director, Global Technical Services Constance Nana Technical Advisor, NLIFT Africa Asia Abdulaziz Adish Deputy Regional Director and Nutrition Adviser, Africa Banda Ndiaye Deputy Regional Director Health, Africa Susmita Das Deputy Regional Director, Asia Manoj Raut Regional Manager, Research and Evaluation, Asia Jacqueline Kung u Regional Advisor Research and Monitoring & Evaluation, Africa If you want to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions of vulnerable people around the world, we invite you to follow us on and join our growing team of experts:

6 LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATIVE SERVICES FOR NUTRITION At Nutrition International, we are passionate about tackling one of the greatest health challenges facing the world today: malnutrition. A dedicated team of global experts, we work with stakeholders around the world to create effective and sustainable solutions for hidden hunger. Luz María De-Regil Vice-President of Global Technical Services, Chief Technical Advisor Our Global Technical Services team has advisors in our Ottawa headquarters, as well as in regional and 10 country offices throughout Africa and Asia. These experts provide technical oversight and quality assurance to our programs and business models. The team s purpose is to drive continuous improvements in the quality of Nutrition International s programs and enable the efforts of global partners through technical leadership, evidence and data, and innovative products and services. Together we work to improve the health of those who need it most especially women, adolescent girls and children. For over 25 years, our organization has been contributing to the global evidence base, along with our partners, to invest resources where they will have the most impact. We help translate evidence into strong policies that provide high-quality nutrition programs to serve the world s most vulnerable people. Our ground-breaking work is helping Nutrition International have a stronger and more meaningful impact. Why? Because it contributes to and is guided by policies informed by sound science and best practices in programming. We will continue to move forward with proven methods while exploring new approaches, forging meaningful technical partnerships, and sharing knowledge through relevant products and services to nourish life around the world. SURVEILLANCE AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Surveillance is key to sparking new policy and program development. It also plays an essential role in determining whether existing policies and programs are meeting their targets in reducing malnutrition. Improved monitoring and reporting has long been a focus of Nutrition International s work with government counterparts. Building on our experience with both governmental systems and separate procedures for survey development and implementation, Nutrition International has been carefully reviewing the time required to complete surveillance activities in terms of staff and timelines, variability of the quality of results across our

7 TECHNICAL RESOURCES FOR INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION STAKEHOLDERS Nutrition Technical Assistance Mechanism (NTEAM) Did you know? Nutrition International invests in innovative approaches to scaling up nutrition and develops products and services that help overcome capacity gaps. NTEAM provides timely, coordinated and expert technical support for a wide range of nutrition-specific and nutrition sensitive-interventions. Carol Broderick Portfolio Director Myriam Martinez Junior Technical Officer NTEAM is a mechanism through which governments and other nutrition actors can access Nutrition International s technical expertise. NTEAM deploys a diverse team of global experts and robust systems to manage: Technical Assistance: NTEAM provides one-off or long-term technical assistance to countries and others who need support and capacity building to achieve nutrition objectives; Task Forces: NTEAM works with the world community to identify nutrition issues that need championing, bringing together global experts, with special perspectives and varied backgrounds, to tackle the issue together; Knowledge Translation: NTEAM s portfolio development includes education, data services, tools and the dissemination of research for global learning. Folate Task Team Homero Martinez, NTEAM Lead, Folate Task Team Jessica Poulin Knowledge Translation Officer Nutrition International believes that so much more is accomplished when you have the right global experts working together towards a common goal. This was the premise behind our championing of Task Forces for nutrition. The Folate Task Team, for example, comprises a group of global partners under the leadership of Nutrition International, all joined together to facilitate access to folate-related knowledge products, identify priority actions to reduce folate-sensitive neural tube defects, build laboratory capacity for the assessment of folate status, and support research in this critical area. countries, and requirements of new interventions. We have invested significant resources in developing survey modules to ensure that data collection adequately responds to our program monitoring frameworks and reporting requirements: Nutrition Intervention Monitoring Surveys (NIMS) Launched in 2017, NIMS is a new and innovative approach to how nutrition intervention surveys are conducted. NIMS allows for uniform collection and storage of survey data to facilitate shorter intervals in collection, timely quality assurance and cross-country analyses. NIMS relies on harmonized electronic data collection tools to speed up survey development and reporting, and uses these tools during supervisory visits to improve regular program monitoring and reporting, more effectively informing global surveillance efforts.

8 Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) Project Did you know? Nutrition International currently delivers technical assistance in up to 20 Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement countries, in order to improve their capacity to design, deliver, and track the progress of nutrition programs and to generate, learn from and adopt knowledge of what works. Loretta MacKinnon Project Director Anne Babcock Global Project Manager Lauren Stanley Junior Project Officer Binu Anand Project Manager, Asia Eadara Srikanth Project Officer, Asia Jacob Korir Project Manager, Africa Daouda Mbengue Senior Project Officer, Francophone Africa Sarah Kihianyu Project Officer, Africa TAN seeks to build the capacity of countries that have joined the SUN Movement to help improve the nutritional status of their populations especially women and children. TAN provides key technical assistance and support tailored to meet country needs, including developing and costing multi-sectoral national nutrition plans; development of nutrition legislation, policies and guidelines; data and evidence generation for informed decision making, as well as building the capacity of in-country SUN Focal Points in implementing, monitoring and evaluating these plans. For current opportunities to help countries translate their global targets into concrete action, visit: DOING WHAT WORKS: FROM EVIDENCE TO IMPACT FOR NUTRITION The OMNI tool Outcome Modelling for Nutrition Impact (OMNI) Tool Launched in 2018, the OMNI Tool is an evidence-based and practical application to drive improvements to program design and transparent results reporting. The tool can model and succinctly define expected nutrition impacts from potential and varied programming scenarios options. Modelling results can guide platform, intervention, and programming choices. The OMNI Tool opens the door to larger conversations about what is possible, is a powerful tool for advocacy, and helps policy makers with critical decisions around use of financial and program resources.

9 RESEARCH AND EVALUATION In assessing our existing programs and testing innovative approaches to program delivery, Nutrition International generates the compelling evidence for nutrition interventions and scale up. We focus on the continuum of implementation research to improve the reach and equity of micronutrient interventions. A sample of recent research and evaluation collaborations include: IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH PROOF OF CONCEPT Is it safe, efficacious & potentially feasible? PROOF OF IMPLEMENTATION How best can it be implemented in real-world settings? Affordable? INFORMING SCALE-UP How best to integrate into health and food systems? PROOF OF CONCEPT Folic acid Dose Response Efficacy Trial In collaboration with the South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), University of British Columbia and Universiti Putra Malaysia, NI and partners aim to respond to the question: will a weekly dose of folic acid be sufficient to improve folate stores associated with Neural Tube Defect prevention? This efficacy trial will fill a critical evidence to support to scaling up of the WHO s recommended dose for weekly iron and folic acid supplementation. PROOF OF IMPLEMENTATION Integrated Nutrition and Deworming Program: Improving Adolescent Health & Nutrition Bangladesh (DAWN) With support from and collaboration with NI s N-LIFT, NI crafted the design of the DAWN program to test the effectiveness of weekly iron and folic acid (WIFA) supplementation in improving iron nutrition of adolescents and its delivery through the secondary school platform in Bangladesh. The project integrates nutrition, deworming, WASH, and behaviour change communication interventions within the education and health sectors and aim to improve the health, wellbeing, and gender equality of adolescents in Bangladesh. INFORMING SCALING UP Community-Based Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition project in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal and Niger. This project aimed to identify key factors to integrate essential nutrition intervention into antenatal care in four African countries with different health system s models. Based on it s findings, the Ministry of Health in each country have committed to scaling up at least a part of their respective projects.

10 WORKING TOGETHER TO NOURISH LIFE We cannot do this important work alone. In addition to country governments, we partner with a wide variety of thought leaders and organizations, including NGOs, academia, UN agencies and programs, foundations, health institutions, and research centres. Some of our partners include: Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition University of California University of Davis Lao PDR National Institute of Public Health USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Emory University, USA Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy Sight and Life Canadian Institutes of Health Research University of British Columbia Child and Family Research Institute BC Children s Hospital Helen Keller International in Cambodia National Science Foundation Thrasher Research Fund WHO, UNICEF and other UN agencies Cornell University PATH Food Fortification Initiative of the CDC Foundation Iodine Global Network For more information on how to partner with Nutrition International, please contact us at: 180 Elgin Street, Suite 1000 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 2K3 Tel: info@nutritionintl.org About Nutrition International Founded in 1992, Nutrition International is a global nutrition organization dedicated to delivering proven interventions to those who need them most. Working in partnership with countries, donors and implementers, our experts conduct cutting-edge nutrition research, support critical policy formulation, and integrate nutrition into broader development programs. In more than 60 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa, Nutrition International nourishes people to nourish life.