In addition the Directorate should be afforded the necessary resources to address the repeatedly documented lack of capacity at these levels, which could, arguably, be considered as the main impediment to the successful implementation of its programmes.Steyn, Nelia...
Child malnutrition is a major problem in South Africa despite implementation of various policies and programmes. Ideally these programmes should be delivered within a human rights paradigm, i.e. parents are responsible for their children's health, while the State authority is obliged to help parents...
Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa. Since the transition to democracy, South African public works programmes have been designed to involve community participation, and have aimed to target th... M Adato...
Both terms acknowledge the importance of addressing key nutritional concerns for achieving food security and emphasise the need for greater integration of nutrition into food security programmes and policies (Committee on World Food Security 2012). Until recently, most food-related policies and ...
The nutritional value of staple crop cultivars declined as they passed through scientific breeding programmes that focused on yields rather than quality traits (Hussain et al., 2012a, Hussain et al., 2012b). The GR did little to promote, and indirectly discouraged, the production or consumption...
Rapid assessment methodologies: application to health and nutrition programmes in Africa Rapid assessment methodologies (RAP) have appeared only recently in African social science agricultural and health research. Data are obtained through form... SA Afonja 被引量: 23发表: 1992年 ...
1,21,22 In an attempt to guide governments, the WHO developed a Draft Approach for the Prevention and Management of Conflicts of Interest in the Policy Development and Implementation of Nutrition Programmes at Country Level.31 The document prompts policy makers to consider whether actors’ core ...
58. Furthermore, building an enabling atmosphere in which individuals can apply what they've learned is critical to the success of nutrition education programmes52. Interventions to combat undernutrition during pregnancy can improve the mother’s and child’s health, as optimal nutrition decreases ...
Population-based interventions in the school food environment have the potential to make the largest impact on nutritional well-being, as children and adolescents spend significant amounts of time at school and frequently eat meals and snacks in this setting. Globally, school meal programmes (SMPs)...
Cultural and contextual considerations in designing programs to support the incorporation of early childhood development within ongoing national nutrition programmes: A focus on the Baby-Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) in a rural African context. 2021;1–27. Houghton C, Casey D, Shaw D, Murphy...