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      Nutrition at the 
      World Food Programme
      Programming for Nutrition-Specific
      Interventions 
      December 2012
                                              Product Sheet 
                                              updated July 2013
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                            Table of Contents
                            Programming for Nutrition-Specific Interventions
                            Introduction                                   2
                            WFP Nutrition Policy                           4
                            Nutrition Terminology                          6
                            Treating Moderate Acute Malnutrition           9
                            Preventing Acute Malnutrition                 14
                            Preventing Chronic Malnutrition- Stunting     18
                            Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies         25
                            Monitoring and Evaluation Logic Models        30
                    Updated Nutrition Product Sheet                       34
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             Introduction
             WFP’s nutrition response is based on a thorough        nutrients. WFP uses an expanded version of the
             understanding of the nutrition situation, in order to  UNICEF conceptual framework on the causes of
             deliver the most appropriate response. This entails    malnutrition to guide information gathering, to
             identifying who is suffering from undernutrition,      facilitate identification of possible causes of the
             what type of undernutrition, when undernutrition is    nutrition situation, to understand the relationship
             occurring, where undernutrition is occurring, and      between immediate and underlying causes of
             why undernutrition is occurring. This also entails     malnutrition as well as basic determinants, and to
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             understanding the nutrient gap and access to           design the most appropriate responses.
             Food and Nutrition Security Conceptual Framework
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                C                           to Food              Environment          Health Environment           v
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                P  Security,                               Household Food Production, 
                X  Social,                                                                                    Livelihood
                E  Cultural,                          Income Generating Activities, Exchange,                 Strategies
                   Gender                                   Loans, Savings, Transfers
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             1. WFP’s operational focus is on the left side of this conceptual framework, i.e. on improving household access to food and
               individual dietary intake of sufficient food and nutrients.
             2                                                                      Nutrition at the World Food Programme