Transcript Policy processes on nutrition education

Red ICEAN
A regional network amongst different actors and
professionals in Latin America and the
Caribbean, which promotes and facilitates the
exchange of experiences and BP in FNE, acting
through a web-based platform
Red ICEAN and the FSN forum
■ Red ICEAN is a regional space for discussion, but lacks tools and media for
interaction
■ Test-run
■ Obtain quality, original feedback from the countries and regional initiatives +
discussion on “hot topics”
■ 2 forums: July 2015 and June 2015
– Nutrition education as a strategy to strengthen family farming households and
improve people's diets
– What are Latin American countries doing to tackle the double burden of
malnutrition effectively?
■ Visibility to both networks
Red ICEAN and the FSN forum
■ Build on existing forums and complement each other, rather than creating smallscale spaces
■ Involve other regions: sharing and comparing
■ Concept note: careful selection of topics (relevant, not very specific): what can be
useful and what is of interest
■ Webinars as background + continual training
■ Follow up + evaluation
RED ICEAN
HTTP://WWW.FAO.ORG/RE
D-ICEAN/ES/
POLICY PROCESSES
IN NUTRITION
EDUCATION
A quick note on food and nutrition education
■ FNE has been recognized as a main determinant of success in FS and
nutrition interventions.
■ It is mentioned in many frameworks as a key intervention for
improving and promoting healthy diets (ICN2, CELAC, NOURISHING,
etc.)
■ Aims at long-term improvements of dietary practices.
■ What is it? "Any combination of educational strategies, accompanied
by environmental supports, designed to facilitate the voluntary
adoption of food choices and other food- and nutrition-related
behaviours conducive to health and well-being; nutrition education is
delivered through multiple venues and involves activities at the
individual, community, and policy levels”. (Contento 2007)
FEDS (Food educators network)
■ Derived from ENACT
■ Concerned with food, food behaviour and food attitudes.
■ Deals with the whole food cycle and its social, economic and practical
effects on diet
■ Created in September 2015
■ D-group
■ Aims: open up discussion of some of the big food and NE issues,
share materials, publications, articles and news of interesting
interventions in progress.
■ 154 Members
■ Zero resources!!!
FEDS
■ What has been achieved?
– Agreement on general principles of what a national FNE
policy should look like
– Review of 5 main policy frameworks on the inclusion of FNE
(NOURISHING, ICEAN, ICN2, MILAN, CIRFHD)
– Priority needs for FNE (i.e. public education, IYCF, schools,
emergencies., health services, social protection, food
services, etc.)
■ What’s next?
– Guidelines for advocacy
– researching evidence base and creating policy briefs
(resources needed)
FEDS
HTTPS://DGROUPS.ORG/F
AO/FEDS/