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Livestock for health in Kenya

Contributing to the prevention of acute malnutrition among children in pastoral households through nutrition-sensitive livestock programming in Marsabit County










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    Livestock programming for nutritional improvements in children under five years of age and pregnant and lactating mothers
    Baseline report
    2022
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    The Livestock for Health (L4H) project is a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Marsabit County Government, the National Government of Kenya, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and Washington State University (WSU). The project was made possible through the support provided by the Office of Technical and Program Quality, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to determine the cost-effectiveness of livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods. The project was designed as a cluster randomized control trial with two intervention arms and one control group. Households in Intervention Arm 1 receive livestock feeds sufficient to maintain two tropical livestock units (TLUs) for 90 days during critical dry periods or drought and 7–14 days into the rain season. Households in Intervention Arm 2 receive similar livestock feeds and regular nutritional counselling carried out by trained community healthcare workers. Households in Arm 3 are the control group and do not receive any of the two interventions during the study period. The results from this baseline survey will be essential for comparing with other data which will be collected during the routine household data collection visits (six week follow-up and quarterly household visits) for monitoring trends in household milk yield, milk consumption (amount and frequency) and nutritional status across the intervention and control arms of the study over the study period. At baseline, both the intervention and control arms were comparable in household demographics, socio-economic characteristics, household livestock ownership, milk production and consumption, and maternal and child nutritional status and health. Additionally, the high prevalence of malnutrition in this study population and the data on health and intervention costs which will be collected in this study will allow for a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine if livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling are cost-effective in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods.
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    Improving dietary diversity for women and children
    Participants’ handbook for improved nutrition practices
    2022
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    This handbook is developed to improve the dietary diversity of women (especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding) and children up to the age of two years. It contains practical guidance covering the aspects of production, collection, marketing, storage, processing, preparation, and consumption of diverse foods. Eating a variety of foods in appropriate quantities daily is a key to a healthy diet for everyone. It also encourages the family members to read the handbook and apply the suggested actions for improving the dietary diversity of the family, especially that of women and children.
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    အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် ကလေးငယ်များအတွက် အစာအာဟာရစုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်စေခြင်း
    ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်သော အလေ့အကျင့်များရရှိကျင့်သုံးနိုင်စေရန် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ၏ လက်စွဲစာအုပ်
    2022
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    ဤစာအုပ်ထုတ်ဝေရခြင်း၏ အဓိကရည်ရွက်ချက်မှာ အမျိုးသမီး (အထူးသဖြင့် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ) နှင့် မွေးစမှ အသက်နှစ်နှစ် အရွယ်ကလေးများ၏ စားသောက်မှုပုံစံများ အာဟာရပိုမို စုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်လာစေရန် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤစာအုပ်တွင်အမျိုးမျိုးသော အစားအစာတို့ကို လက်တွေ့ကျအသုံးဝင်သော နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် စိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းများ၊ စုဆောင်းခြင်းများ၊ စျေးကွက်အတွင်းပို့ဆောင်ခြင်းများ၊ သိုလှောင်သိမ်းဆည်းခြင်းများ၊ စီမံပြုပြင်ခြင်းများ ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းများနှင့် စားသုံးခြင်းစသည့်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်လမ်းညွှန်မှုများပါဝင်ပါသည်။
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    Livestock programming for nutritional improvements in children under five years of age and pregnant and lactating mothers
    Baseline report
    2022
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    No results found.

    The Livestock for Health (L4H) project is a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Marsabit County Government, the National Government of Kenya, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and Washington State University (WSU). The project was made possible through the support provided by the Office of Technical and Program Quality, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to determine the cost-effectiveness of livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods. The project was designed as a cluster randomized control trial with two intervention arms and one control group. Households in Intervention Arm 1 receive livestock feeds sufficient to maintain two tropical livestock units (TLUs) for 90 days during critical dry periods or drought and 7–14 days into the rain season. Households in Intervention Arm 2 receive similar livestock feeds and regular nutritional counselling carried out by trained community healthcare workers. Households in Arm 3 are the control group and do not receive any of the two interventions during the study period. The results from this baseline survey will be essential for comparing with other data which will be collected during the routine household data collection visits (six week follow-up and quarterly household visits) for monitoring trends in household milk yield, milk consumption (amount and frequency) and nutritional status across the intervention and control arms of the study over the study period. At baseline, both the intervention and control arms were comparable in household demographics, socio-economic characteristics, household livestock ownership, milk production and consumption, and maternal and child nutritional status and health. Additionally, the high prevalence of malnutrition in this study population and the data on health and intervention costs which will be collected in this study will allow for a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine if livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling are cost-effective in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods.
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    Improving dietary diversity for women and children
    Participants’ handbook for improved nutrition practices
    2022
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    This handbook is developed to improve the dietary diversity of women (especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding) and children up to the age of two years. It contains practical guidance covering the aspects of production, collection, marketing, storage, processing, preparation, and consumption of diverse foods. Eating a variety of foods in appropriate quantities daily is a key to a healthy diet for everyone. It also encourages the family members to read the handbook and apply the suggested actions for improving the dietary diversity of the family, especially that of women and children.
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    အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် ကလေးငယ်များအတွက် အစာအာဟာရစုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်စေခြင်း
    ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်သော အလေ့အကျင့်များရရှိကျင့်သုံးနိုင်စေရန် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ၏ လက်စွဲစာအုပ်
    2022
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    ဤစာအုပ်ထုတ်ဝေရခြင်း၏ အဓိကရည်ရွက်ချက်မှာ အမျိုးသမီး (အထူးသဖြင့် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ) နှင့် မွေးစမှ အသက်နှစ်နှစ် အရွယ်ကလေးများ၏ စားသောက်မှုပုံစံများ အာဟာရပိုမို စုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်လာစေရန် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤစာအုပ်တွင်အမျိုးမျိုးသော အစားအစာတို့ကို လက်တွေ့ကျအသုံးဝင်သော နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် စိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းများ၊ စုဆောင်းခြင်းများ၊ စျေးကွက်အတွင်းပို့ဆောင်ခြင်းများ၊ သိုလှောင်သိမ်းဆည်းခြင်းများ၊ စီမံပြုပြင်ခြင်းများ ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းများနှင့် စားသုံးခြင်းစသည့်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်လမ်းညွှန်မှုများပါဝင်ပါသည်။
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    Book (stand-alone)
    Livestock programming for nutritional improvements in children under five years of age and pregnant and lactating mothers
    Baseline report
    2022
    Also available in:
    No results found.

    The Livestock for Health (L4H) project is a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Marsabit County Government, the National Government of Kenya, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) and Washington State University (WSU). The project was made possible through the support provided by the Office of Technical and Program Quality, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to determine the cost-effectiveness of livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods. The project was designed as a cluster randomized control trial with two intervention arms and one control group. Households in Intervention Arm 1 receive livestock feeds sufficient to maintain two tropical livestock units (TLUs) for 90 days during critical dry periods or drought and 7–14 days into the rain season. Households in Intervention Arm 2 receive similar livestock feeds and regular nutritional counselling carried out by trained community healthcare workers. Households in Arm 3 are the control group and do not receive any of the two interventions during the study period. The results from this baseline survey will be essential for comparing with other data which will be collected during the routine household data collection visits (six week follow-up and quarterly household visits) for monitoring trends in household milk yield, milk consumption (amount and frequency) and nutritional status across the intervention and control arms of the study over the study period. At baseline, both the intervention and control arms were comparable in household demographics, socio-economic characteristics, household livestock ownership, milk production and consumption, and maternal and child nutritional status and health. Additionally, the high prevalence of malnutrition in this study population and the data on health and intervention costs which will be collected in this study will allow for a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine if livestock feeding interventions and nutritional counselling are cost-effective in reducing the risk of malnutrition among children and women in pastoral communities during the critical dry periods.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    Improving dietary diversity for women and children
    Participants’ handbook for improved nutrition practices
    2022
    Also available in:

    This handbook is developed to improve the dietary diversity of women (especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding) and children up to the age of two years. It contains practical guidance covering the aspects of production, collection, marketing, storage, processing, preparation, and consumption of diverse foods. Eating a variety of foods in appropriate quantities daily is a key to a healthy diet for everyone. It also encourages the family members to read the handbook and apply the suggested actions for improving the dietary diversity of the family, especially that of women and children.
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    Book (stand-alone)
    အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် ကလေးငယ်များအတွက် အစာအာဟာရစုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်စေခြင်း
    ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်သော အလေ့အကျင့်များရရှိကျင့်သုံးနိုင်စေရန် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ၏ လက်စွဲစာအုပ်
    2022
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    ဤစာအုပ်ထုတ်ဝေရခြင်း၏ အဓိကရည်ရွက်ချက်မှာ အမျိုးသမီး (အထူးသဖြင့် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ) နှင့် မွေးစမှ အသက်နှစ်နှစ် အရွယ်ကလေးများ၏ စားသောက်မှုပုံစံများ အာဟာရပိုမို စုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်လာစေရန် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤစာအုပ်တွင်အမျိုးမျိုးသော အစားအစာတို့ကို လက်တွေ့ကျအသုံးဝင်သော နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် စိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းများ၊ စုဆောင်းခြင်းများ၊ စျေးကွက်အတွင်းပို့ဆောင်ခြင်းများ၊ သိုလှောင်သိမ်းဆည်းခြင်းများ၊ စီမံပြုပြင်ခြင်းများ ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းများနှင့် စားသုံးခြင်းစသည့်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်လမ်းညွှန်မှုများပါဝင်ပါသည်။

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