Moderate Wasting Using Innovative Local Foods Approaches: Discussion and Skills Building Workshop

This is a recording of the Humanitarian Xchange 2024 session: 'Moderate Wasting Using Innovative Local Foods Approaches: Discussion and Skills Building Workshop'. Autogenerated captions are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
The inaugural Humanitarian Xchange took place on 20 February 2024 online and at the Business Design Centre in London, UK. To find out more about HX24, visit www.humanitarianxchange.org
Session description:
According to the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 31.3 million children have moderate wasting. Practitioners have developed many innovative approaches using locally available foods. However, there is a lack of minimum standards for these approaches and insufficient global guidance on how these approaches should be designed and implemented.
Panel discussion: Panelists will present findings from recent research from a series of case studies in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda to document a range of approaches that use local foods for the management of moderate wasting. In this webinar speakers shared findings from this work and discussed its implications in light of the recently released 2023 WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years, which includes guidance on managing moderate wasting for the first time and emphasizes the use of local and family foods for nutritional support.
Skills Workshop: A practical skills building workshop session will follow the panel discussion, to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to commission or conduct a similar economic evaluation themselves, including, knowledge on:
Plan for a costing / cost to scale study
Where to find the additional resources to learn more about such economic evaluations