Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative (NFSI)

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative (NFSI)

A partnership experience
Between EDC, FAO, SCN, UNESCO, UNICEF, World
Bank,WFP and WHO
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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

• Originally developed as a follow-up to the WHO
  Expert Meeting on Childhood Obesity in Kobe
  (2005)
• ? double-burden of malnutrition should be
  addressed also in school nutrition programmes
• A brainstorming meeting in Montreux, Feb. 2006,
  among partners (EDC, FAO, SCN, WFP and WHO)
• ? review ongoing school based nutrition
  programmes
• ? develop the NFSI framework

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Greatest nutrition challenge of today
Double-burden of malnutrition/nutrition-related
ill-health Undernutrition,
overweight/obesity micronutrient deficiencies
and unbalanced diets occur in the same
countries in the same communities in the
same classrooms ... and even in the same
families ? Accounting for hundreds of
millions of dollars of public expenditure
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Nutrition Friendly Schools Initiative
NFSI

• Rationale
• Investing in health and nutrition of school age
  children investing in the future of the world!
• Schools offer opportunities to promote healthy
  dietary and physical activity patterns for
  children.
• An access point for engaging parents and
  community members in preventing all forms of
  malnutrition (i.e. undernutrition, micronutrient
  deficiencies, overweight, obesity).

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

• Objectives
• Provide a framework for school-based programmes
  which address malnutrition in all its forms.
• Serve as a mechanism for inter-connecting
  on-going school-based health and nutrition
  interventions.
• Provide practical guidance on how to strengthen
  nutrition in school health programmes.

Global Award Plaque
Concept and principles UNICEF / WHO Baby
Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI).
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Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative
NFSI

• Benefits
• Helps schools build an enabling environment for
  promoting health, nutrition and education.
• Strengthens schools capacity to address
  childrens health and nutrition problems, with
  support from parents and community.
• Creates networks between schools, communities and
  national authorities to tackle all forms of
  malnutrition.
• Accreditation provides additional motivation to
  invest in childrens health, nutrition and
  development.

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

The core components
1. Written Nutrition-friendly School policy 2.
Awareness and capacity building of school
community 3. Nutrition, health and physical
education 4. Supportive school
environment 5. School nutrition and health
services
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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

The process
Form a core action group
Conduct self-appraisal (SAT) I
Action plan and implementation
Conduct self-appraisal (SAT) II
Conduct an external evaluation
Global Award Plaque
Accredited
Certificate of commitment
Excluded
External re-evaluation
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Tool for Curriculum Development

• The Readertechnical reader on nutrition
  education in schools
• The Activitiescollection of worksheets for
  planning exercise
• Classroom Curriculum ChartNE
  learningobjectives fordifferent ages

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What makes NFSI different from the other
school-based health and nutrition programmes? ?
NFSI addresses all forms of malnutrition ?
NFSI uses a global standardized evaluation and
accreditation scheme ? NFSI has a strong
focus on nutrition and physical activity
education
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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

Comparison of school-based initiatives

• Main focus
• Health FRESH, HPS, EP
• Nutrition EP, NFSI
• Education HPS, CF
• Health interventions
• FRESH, HPS, EP
• Health education
• FRESH and HPS

• Nutrition education
• NFSI
• Physical education
• NFSI
• Holistic approach
• FRESH, HPS, CF, NFSI
• Standardized evaluation and accreditation
• NFSI

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

• Is developed in partnership
• EDC, FAO, SCN, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, WFP
  and WHO
• Is pilot-tested in partnership
• Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy,
  Slovenia, Switzerland, Brazil, Croatia, Hungary,
  Latvia, Lithuania, India
• Will be launched in partnership
• September 2007
• Will be implemented in partnership

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

• Why Partnership?
• Nutritional problems are multi-dimensional
• To help
• provide technical support
• harmonize activities
• utilize resources more effectively
• mobilize additional financial and human
  resources

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• Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative

• Partnership in action
• planning as part of collaboration
• development of the framework
• pilot-testing
• initiation and implementation of the initiative
• Tools
• meetings
• teleconferences
• communication through emails

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Contact the NFSI Team at NFSI_at_who.int GOOGLE
" WHO NFSI "