Deadline: 6 May 2014
Organised by Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation
Date: Mon 24 Nov 2014 until Fri 5 Dec 2014
The overall aim of the course is to contribute to improving nutrition by making agricultural development programmes more nutrition sensitive. Upon completion of the course you will:
- understand the concepts of food systems, food security, nutrition and poverty and their interconnectedness;
- be able to apply conceptual frameworks to ensure nutrition sensitive agricultural development programmes and policies;
- formulate or adjust the design and implementation of agricultural development programmes and policies to enhance the impact on nutrition.
Target audience
You are working for a governmental or non-governmental organisation at national or sub-national level in one of the following positions:
- you are a policy or planning officer with responsibility for promoting community and household livelihood including food and nutrition security;
- you have a managing or co-ordinating position in planning, management, implementation and/or monitoring and evaluation of a community food and nutrition security programme or an agricultural development programme with a nutrition component;
- you work in action-oriented research, advisory or teaching position directly relevant to food and nutrition security.
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