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    Nutrition

    At its core, nutrition is about consuming a regular, balanced diet that provides the body with essential nutrients for optimal health and function. Bodmando recognizes the critical role nutrition plays in enhancing individual and community well-being and integrates it as a key focus area in its technical services.

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    Global and Regional Nutrition Contexts

    • Globally, malnutrition both undernutrition and obesity remains a pressing issue. According to the WHO, over 45 million children under five suffer from wasting, while adult obesity rates continue to rise. Food insecurity, poor diet diversity, and unhealthy food environments challenge global nutrition progress.
    • In many African countries, undernutrition coexists with rising overweight and obesity rates, a phenomenon known as the double burden of malnutrition. Challenges include limited access to diverse foods, poor sanitation, climate-induced food shortages, and under-resourced health systems.
    • The Middle East and North Africa region faces growing obesity among adults and micronutrient deficiencies among children. Political instability, economic hardship, and humanitarian crises have undermined food security and diet quality in many countries.
    • Europe struggles with diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and obesity, particularly in Eastern and Southern Europe. Aging populations and health inequalities among migrants and low-income populations add complexity to nutrition responses.

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    Challenges and Opportunities in Nutrition

    Challenges:

    • The double burden of malnutrition (undernutrition + obesity)
    • Micronutrient deficiencies across all age groups
    • Inadequate nutrition education and behavior change strategies
    • Climate change and conflict disrupting food systems
    • Poor integration of nutrition into health, agriculture, and education systems

    Opportunities:

    • Increased global awareness of diet-health linkages
    • Multisectoral strategies involving agriculture, education, health, and social protection
    • School feeding and maternal-child nutrition programs
    • Improved digital tools for nutrition tracking and education
    • Sustainable food systems and local farming support

    World Health Organization

    Good nutrition is the foundation of good health, and ensuring access to nutritious food is vital to tackling global health challenges.

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    Recommendations

    Bodmando recommends the following strategies to strengthen nutrition systems:

    • Promote evidence-based behavior change communication to improve food choices.
    • Integrate nutrition services in primary health care and maternal-child health programs.
    • Strengthen local food systems to ensure affordability and availability of diverse, nutritious foods.
    • Support development of inclusive nutrition policies and multisectoral strategies.
    • Enhance data systems to monitor and evaluate nutrition outcomes.

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    What Bodmando Does

    • Designs and conducts nutrition-related baseline, midline, and endline evaluations to measure impact and inform future interventions.
    • Develops nutrition-focused Theories of Change and Results Frameworks using participatory, context-specific methods.
    • Implements data collection, analysis, and reporting processes tailored to nutrition programming using remote, in-person, and hybrid models.
    • Applies Third Party Monitoring (TPM) approaches to independently verify nutrition program results and trends.
    • Conducts situational and needs assessments to identify gaps in community nutrition and inform evidence-based response.
    • Evaluates data quality in nutrition programs to ensure validity and improve performance tracking.

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    References

    • World Health Organization. (n.d.). Healthy diet. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet
    • UNICEF. (2023). Nutrition. https://www.unicef.org/nutrition.
    • FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO. (2023). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023. https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc3017e
    • Global Nutrition Report. (2021). Nutrition Country Profiles and Data. https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/
    • WHO Africa. (2022). Africa Nutrition Strategy. https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/nutrition

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