Deadline: 24 March 2015
Applications are being accepted for course on Agriculture nutrition linkages : Ensuring nutritional impact of agricultural projects under Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation. This course will be conducted from 12 October 2015 until Fri 23 October 2015. The goal of this programme is to contribute to improving nutrition by making agricultural development programmes more nutrition sensitive.
Objectives:
- understand the concepts of food systems, food security, nutrition and poverty and their interconnectedness
- be able to apply conceptual frameworks to ensure nutrition sensitive agricultural development programmes and policies
- formulate or adjust the design and implementation of agricultural development programmes and policies to enhance the impact on nutrition
Eligibility criteria:
Applicants must be working for a governmental or non-governmental organisation at national or sub-national level in one of the following positions:
- policy or planning officer with responsibility for promoting community and household livelihood including food and nutrition security
- managing or co-ordinating position in planning, management, implementation and/or monitoring and evaluation of a community food and nutrition security programme or an agricultural development programme with a nutrition component
- Work in action-oriented research, advisory or teaching position directly relevant to food and nutrition security.
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