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The National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) is a statutory body that was established in

18 Nov 2021

The MCDP II Impact Pathways are categorized in tandem with the priority interventions indicated in the Intervention Pyramid for Scaling up of Minimum Package of Interventions for the First 1000 Most Critical Days and spin on the following critical areas of nutrition: Response to critical situations, Agriculture, livestock and fisheries, Health and Nutrition, Economic dimension, WASH, Nutrition gov. [...] Nutrition specific interventions address actions on the immediate determinants of foetal and child nutrition and development such as appropriate feeding practices, dietary diversity, vitamin and mineral supplementation and food fortification while the nutrition sensitive interventions address the underlying determinants of nutrition such as wash, agriculture, social safety nets and women’s empower. [...] Six high impact priority nutrition interventions are commonly implemented in the country namely: Promotion of Gender Equality and women’s empowerment, Social and behaviour change and communication campaign to reduce stunting, promotion of improved infant and young child feeding and care practices, promotion of maternal nutrition, dietary diversity through nutrition-sensitive agriculture and promot. [...] Recurrent diseases are known to affect the growth and development of children and economic production in adults (Stephensen, 1999; Abegunde and Stanciole, 2006; Dewey and Mayers, 2011; Laxminarayan and Malani, 2011). [...] Training at different levels on the protocols and guidelines related to maintenance or correction of nutrition status and provision of relief food to the affected population and provision of habitable hygienic living conditions under DMMU.

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RAIDER

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Zambia

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