FANTA helps countries meet nutrition and food security needs
Region: Global
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA) project provides technical assistance to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its partners in 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to strengthen nutrition and food security policies, programs and systems. FANTA works across multiple sectors to promote sustainable results. For example, in Bangladesh, FANTA provided support to develop and implement a strategy to integrate nutrition into clinic services and trained clinic staff on infant and young child feeding. In Ethiopia, FANTA collaborated on national nutrition and HIV guidelines and curricula for medical and nursing schools. And, in Guatemala, FANTA began work to enhance the nutritional impact of agriculture interventions. To help countries strengthen their capacity in nutrition, FANTA held 99 trainings in 2012 for more than 2,300 people in nine countries on such topics as infant and young child feeding; on-site nutrition, assessment, counseling and support training; monitoring and evaluation; and community-based management of acute malnutrition. FANTA also conducts research to test and validate new and promising approaches and contribute to the evidence base. Findings from a study funded by FANTA and published in 2012 on the use of antibiotics to treat children with severe acute malnutrition was described as a “major new scientific finding” by the New York Times, which reported on the potentially lifesaving results.
Funder: United States Agency for International Development
