BACKGROUND ON THE 10TH FORUM

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BACKGROUND ON THE 10TH FORUM

• THE RECOMENDATIONS

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Recommendations of the 10th Forum (1)

• To WAHO
• Support regional nutrition advocacy activities
  that include obesity and diet related chronic
  diseases.
• Support behavior change and communication
  strategies that promote appropriate diets and
  adequate physical activity.
• Establish partnership with the ECOWAS department
  of Agriculture for increasing linkages between
  health and agricultural policies.
• Strengthen linkages with the UN system through
  the Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN).

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Recommendations of the 10th Forum (2)

• To Countries
• Create awareness and strengthen institutional
  capacity and inter sectoral collaboration and
  leadership at national, and community levels to
  address the double burden of malnutrition.
• Include data on obesity, diabetes and other diet
  related non communicable diseases in DHS.
• Give priority to interventions which target the
  window of opportunity (Pre-conception to 24mo) .
• Develop and implement institutional cross-cutting
  policies and actions which address the double
  burden of malnutrition.
• To urge communities and schools, including
  pre-schools, to be nutrition and physical
  activity-friendly, in order to promote health and
  well being throughout life.
• Promote Production, Processing, preservation and
  consumption of local foods, for safe and balanced
  diets at all season and promote food
  fortification and micronutrient supplementation
  when and where needed.
• To adapt and integrate the new WHO Child Growth
  Charts into maternal and child health services.

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Recommendations of the 10th Forum (3)

• To Partners
• Identify areas of future support and
  collaboration that are particularly important
• Development of school-based initiatives that
  promote sustainable use of locally available
  foods.
• Develop urban nutrition strategies to deal with
  the growing concerns of the urban poor in ECOWAS
  countries.
• Support the inclusion of food and nutrition
  indicators into early warning systems and
  surveillance systems and the adoption of the new
  WHO child growth charts.
• Link the IT efforts of ECOWAS/WAHO with the
  relevant initiatives of other partners.
• UN agencies to take advantage of Nutrition Forum
  to revive regional inter-agency coordination