For an integrated and multi-sectoral approach to nutrition in emergency, rehabilitation and development programmes

10/04/2009

Though nutrition is mostly associated with famine situations and overt starvation, it can actually play a central role in the planning, implementation and evaluation of relief, rehabilitation and development programmes, even when malnutrition seems invisible. Nutrition consists in much more than food or nutritional supplement distributions; rather, it can be the key to integrated, multi-sectoral and people-centered interventions.