Pilot project to strengthen emergency nutrition training in preservice and in-service training courses

The overall objective of this project is to build sustainable human capacity to respond to
nutritional emergencies through strengthening pre- and in-service training courses within
developing countries.
The project is being supported by NutritionWorks together with the Emergency Nutrition
Network (two organisations based in the UK) with funding from the US Office for Foreign
Disaster Assistance. The project is being piloted initially in two countries, one of which is
Kenya.
Fiona Watson (NutritionWorks) and Wambui Kogi-Makau (University of Nairobi) spent 10
days in February 2010 gathering views from a range of stakeholders on suitable training
institutions and how emergency nutrition can be incorporated into existing curricula in
Kenya. This report summarises their findings.