PRIMARY PREVENTION OF UNDERNUTRITION: CHALLENGING APPROACHES AND PRIORITIES

INTRODUCTION

Chair of the session

• Omar Obeid, Head of Department and Professor in Nutrition, American University of Beirut

Panelists

• Raj Bhandari, Member of of the National Technical Board of Nutrition and Health, Government of India
• Lucas Honauer, Country Director, Acción contra el Hambre Palestine

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• Dieynaba N’Diaye, Action contre la Faim France
  Care Groups: Potential Of An At Scale Face-to-Face Behavior: Results Of An Impact Evaluation In Northeastern Nigeria.
• Rose Ndolo, World Vision
  Cash-based Assistance and the Nutrition Status of Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) and Children in the Somalia Food Crisis: Does Transfer Modality Matter?
• Gope Rajkumar and Rath Shibanand, Ekjut
  Do creches, participatory women’s groups and home visits to prevent child undernutrition benefit the most marginalised? Analysis from a quasi-experimental study in rural eastern India

• Mebit Kebede, Jhpiego
  Human resource needs assessment for effective multi-sectoral actions for nutrition: the case of Ethiopia

• Kathryn Ogden, WFP
  WFP shifts programme design for improved nutrition