Malawi
Programme Activities
Many successful activities have been carried out in Malawi. These include:
Developing Innovative Nutrition Tools for Rapid Assessments
The Household Dietary Diversity Score (DDS) and the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), can help pinpoint emerging food security and nutrition crisis before they reach acute stages and are useful for monitoring the impact of national nutritional policies and education programmes. FAO nutritionists have been adapting the tools to the Malawi context and local diets. They have been incorporated into the national nutritional survey conducted by the
Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC) with support from UNICEF.
> Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee Update (January 2008)
> More about the tools
> Related article
Intensive Training in Crop Forecasting
Experts from Malawi, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia received three weeks of intensive training in using modern agro-meteorological and remote sensing tools. These tools and software make it possible to forecast the outcome of the cropping season from the moment of planting and therefore foresee possible shocks.
> More details
CountrySTAT Training
Two experts from The National Statistical Office of Malawi attended a CountrySTAT Advanced Administrator training workshop at FAO headquarters. CountrySTAT promotes easy access to and exchange of national and international food security statistics by harmonizing national data and metadata collections. A CountrySTAT gateway for Malawi has been set up.
> Malawi CountrySTAT Gateway
> More about CountrySTAT
Training and Events
> Training in using nutrition tools (July 2006)
> Statistics in applied climatology (SIAC) training (November 2006)
> National workshop on nutrition tools (November 2006)
> Crop forecasting training (October 2007)
