An action framework
10-step Rapid Action Plan
1. Building national capacity to develop food and nutrition policies
- Develop food and nutrition policies and strategies into national agendas
- Develop advocacy tools
2. Providing diagnostic reviews and country nutrition profiles
- to provide governments with nutrition situation
- diagnostic reviews and assessment tools
- appropriate indicators
- integrated nutrition database
3. Providing knowledge-based advisory services to policy makers and programme managers through practice communities
- foster a learning community and network to access and share knowledge on nutrition
- share critical areas for programme successes, exchange programme schemes and implementation guidelines
4. Optimizing fetal development
- promote optimal foetal growth and development
- reduce mortality and morbidity and health implication
5. Improving infant and young child feeding practices and the care of severely malnourished children
- implementation of the Global Strategy for infant and young child feeding
- WHO severe malnutrition case management guidelines
- WHO estimates that reducing mortality 30–50% would be achievable over a period of 2–5 years (i.e. 2 million deaths per year could be prevented)
6. Recommending vitamin and mineral requirements for children up to three years
- forge consensus on recommended dietary allowances (RDA) for 6–36 months
- ensure adequate micronutrient where this is not possible through diet or fortified complementary food
7. Implementing guidelines on food fortification
- guidance to government, food industry and civil society on vitamins and mineral fortification
- develop rapid assessment protocol, training kits, national expects and so on
8. Developing scientific evidence, assessment and policy guidelines on obesity and nutrition in transition
- assist countries in addressing obesity problem
- indicators to monitor overweight in various age groups
- database on dietary patterns
- producing recommendations on nutritional intervention
9. Establishing nutrition friendly schools
- promote adequate nutrition and healthy eating through schools to prevent malnutrition in all its forms – underweight, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity
- set up global school-based nutrition agenda with set principles and strategies
- guidelines and reference materials and a network of resource people
10. Ensuring the integration of nutrition into responses for people living with HIV/AIDS and people affected by conflicts and crisis.
- integrate nutrition into essential care, treatment and support package for people living with HIV/AIDS
- include global recommendations and practical nutrition assessment tools for home, community, health facility-based and emergency programmes
- provide necessary technical guidance and support to governments and partners in countries affected by conflicts and crisis, in e.g. setting up or strengthening nutrition surveillance systems managing nutrition assessments and in capacity building on the improved management of severe malnutrition.