How to Protect and Promote the Nutrition of Mothers and Children in Latin America and the Caribbean : Purpose of the Toolkit
This toolkit is the first of its kind to provide information on promoting and protecting the nutritional status of mothers and children in crises and emergencies. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447311468266161601/How-to-protect-and-promote-the-nutrition-of-mothers-and-children-purpose-of-the-toolkit http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26794 |
| Summary: | This toolkit is the first of its kind to
provide information on promoting and protecting the
nutritional status of mothers and children in crises and
emergencies. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the
most vulnerable regions in the world to major crises and
emergencies. This toolkit aims to improve the resilience of
the most vulnerable in times of intensified nutritional
needs, most notably pregnant and lactating mothers as well
as children less than two years of age. Its principal
objective is to offer countries, when faced with the
transition from stable times into and out of crisis, clear
guidance on how to safeguard the nutritional status of
mothers and children during times of stability, crisis, and
emergency. The principal objective of this toolkit is to
offer clear guidance, in a single-source compilation, that
will assist countries in safeguarding the nutritional status
of mothers and children during times of stability, crisis,
and emergency. It aims to inform changes in countries'
policies and practices and to guide their attempts to deal
with persistently high prevalence rates of malnutrition
among their poorest, least educated, and indigenous
populations. This toolkit has been crafted so that it can be
readily used by non-nutrition specialists. |
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