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Building Capacities to Collect, Interpret and Use the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women Indicator to Transform Agrifood Systems Policies - GCP/GLO/1027/GER

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Dietary data are essential in order to understand the causes of malnutrition and inform action. One indicator to measure diets is the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W), a simple, cost-effective and validated tool that is already widely used. Components 1 and 2 of this project were designed to increase uptake of MDD-W, build global capacity on its use and generate evidence. Component 3 developed the capacity of country stakeholders, specifically government actors, at national and subnational level and parliamentarians, to use data and evidence and incorporate nutrition into national agrifood policies and programmes.

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