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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Use of Information in the Iringa Nutrition Programme |
Authors: | Pelletier, David L. Jonsson, Urban |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 301-313 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | child nutrition nutrition Health and Nutrition Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(94)90077-9 |
Abstract: | The Iringa Nutrition Programme (INP) in Tanzania is a community-based programme to improve the nutritional status of women and children. It differs from most other programmes of its size by employing a process approach to identify causes of and solutions to malnutrition at household and community levels. This approach requires that households and communities be sensitized to the nature of malnutrition in society; that they be trained and supported in their efforts to identify local causes and solutions; and that they and the supporting administrative levels correctly perceive the roles and responsibilities each has for the persistence or reduction of malnutrition. Information on the nutritional status (weight-for-age) of children plays a central role in this process, as part of a simple, ongoing management information system. This information system is one of the best examples of 'nutrition surveillance for programme management and evaluation', but it departs from the conventional model of such a system in important ways. The principles developed in Iringa have recently been used to guide a review of experience with national surveillance systems in other countries. The findings reinforced the conclusion from the Iringa programme, namely that the design of information-related activities should be based on a better understanding of existing decisionmaking processes. Bibliogr., sum. |