Improving nutrition programmes

"This Assessment Tool (AT) represents a milestone in the continuous involvement and experience of FAO in assisting Member Countries in developing community-based food and nutrition programmes ... The ultimate objective of the AT is to help the users launch and develop a process to strengthen their country's ability to address the causes of malnutrition ... The methodology is divided into four sections covering programme design, the macroenvironment, the microenvironment, and sustainability. The AT is used for making suggestions for action following the assessment. Anticipated users are normally food and nutrition programme planners, but any number of individuals with planning and programmatic responsibility who are concerned about poverty alleviation and overall development can, and should be, part of the Assessment Team."--Page [vii].