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Acronyms


ACN

Agent communautaire en nutrition (Community Nutrition Agent - Madagascar)

ACS

Agent communautaire de santé (Community Health Agent - Madagascar)

ADRA

Adventist Development and Relief Agency

AGEB

a basic geostatistical area [population unit] (área geoestadística básica - Mexico)

Agritex

Agricultural Technology and Extension Service (Zimbabwe)

AMREF

African Medical and Research Foundation (Kenya)

ANP

Applied Nutrition Project (Kenya)

ASAL

arid and semi-arid lands (Kenya)

ASAP

Araw ng Sangkap Pinoy (supplementation programme - Philippines)

ASHONPLAFA

Honduran Association for Family Planning (Asociación Hondureña de Planificación de la Familia)

BANADESA

National Agricultural Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Agrícola – Honduras)

BCG

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (anti-tuberculosis vaccine)

BINP

Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Programme

BNC

Barangay Nutrition Committee (Philippines)

BMI

body mass index

BPAN

Bangladesh Plan of Action for Nutrition

BRAC

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

CARE

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

CFNP

Community Food and Nutrition Programme (Zimbabwe)

CHANIS

Child Health and Nutrition Information System (Kenya)

CHW

Community Health Worker (Zimbabwe)

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency

CNC

Community Nutrition Centre (Bangladesh)

CNO

Community Nutrition Organizer (Bangladesh)

CNP

Community Nutrition Promoter (Bangladesh)

COCEPRADIL

Development of the Department of Lempira (Comité Central Pro-agua y Desarrollo Integral de Lempira - Honduras)

CODECO

Committee for Community Development (Comité de Desarrollo Comunitario - Honduras)

COHASA

German-Honduran Cooperation for Food Security (Cooperación Hondureño-Alemana de Seguridad Alimentaria)

CONAFE

National Council for the Support of Education (Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo - Mexico)

CONASUPO

National Company of Popular Subsistence (Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares - Mexico)

CONPROGRESA

National Coordination of PROGRESA (Coordinación Nacional de PROGRESA - Mexico)

CRS

Catholic Relief Services

CRT

Centre de récupération thérapeutique (Therapeutic Centre - Madagascar)

CSO

Central Statistics Office

CSO

Central Statistical Office (Zimbabwe)

CTA

Chief Technical Advisor (Asesor Técnico Principal - Honduras)

CTN

National Technical Coordinator (Coordinador Técnico Nacional - Honduras)

CVW

Community Volunteer Worker (Zimbabwe)

DAF

Direction administrative et financière (Madagascar)

DANIDA

Danish International Development Assistance

DFID

Department for International Development (United Kingdom)

DHS

Demographic and Health Survey

DICONSA

Conasupo distributor [retail food sales] (Distribuidora e Impulsora Comercial Conasupo S.A. - Mexico)

DICTA

Directorate for Agricultural Science and Technology (Dirección de Ciencia y Tecnología Agropecuaria - Honduras)

DIF

National System for Integrated Family Development (Sistema Nacional de Desarrollo Integral de la Familia - Mexico)

DDSS

Direction de la démographie et des statistiques sociales (Social Statistics and Demography Directorate - Madagascar)

DoH

Department of Health (Philippines)

DSRP

Document de stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté (Poverty Reduction Strategy Document - Madagascar)

ECSA

Eastern, Central and Southern Africa

EDUCATODOS

radio education programme (Honduras)

EPI

Expanded Programme of Immunization (Bangladesh)

ESAP

Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (Zimbabwe)

ESAR

Eastern and Southern Africa Region

EU

European Union

FFW

Food-for-Work Programme

FHIS

Honduran Social Investment Fund (Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social)

FIDELIST

Trust Fund for Liquidation of Tortilla Subsidy (Fideicomiso Liquidador deSubsidio a la Tortilla - Mexico)

FNMT

Food and Nutrition Management Team (Zimbabwe)

FNRI

Food and Nutrition Research Institute (Philippines)

GAA

German Agro Action

GAD

Groupement d’action pour le développement (Action Group for Development - Madagascar)

GAIN

Groupe d’actions intersectorielles pour la nutrition (Intersectoral Action Group for Nutrition - Madagascar)

GBF

Groupe de bailleurs de fonds (Stakeholders’ Group - Madagascar)

GDP

gross domestic product

GMP

Growth Monitoring and Promotion

GNP

gross national product

GoB

Government of Bangladesh

GoP

Government of the Philippines

GTDR

Groupe de travail pour le développement rural (Working Group for Rural Development - Madagascar)

GTZ

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit

HIV-AIDS

Human Inmunodeficiency Virus - Acquired Inmunodeficiency Syndrome

ICN

International Conference on Nutrition (FAO/WHO 1992)

IDA

International Development Association (World Bank)

IDD

iodine deficiency disorders

IEC

information, education, communication

IEC

information, éducation, communication (Madagascar)

ILO

International Labour Organization

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IMR

infant mortality rate

IMSS

Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social)

INA

National Agrarian Institute (Instituto Nacional Agrario - Honduras)

INEGI

National Statistics, Geography and Informatics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática - Mexico)

INFOP

National Institute for Professional Training (Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional - Honduras)

INSTAT

Institut National de la Statistique (National Statistics Institute Madagascar)

IPEA

Institute of Applied Economic Research (Brazil)

KARI

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute

KE-CAN

Kenya Coalition for Nutrition

KEFRI

Kenya Forestry Research Institute

LAKASS

Lalakas ang Katawang Sapat Sa Sustansiya (programme on good nutrition for health - Philippines)

LICONSA

Conasupo Industrialized Milk (Leche Industrializada Conasupo S.A. - Mexico)

LBW

low birth weight MACOSUD Makoni District Action for Community Development (Kenya)

MEPF

Ministry of Economic Planning and Finance (Zimbabwe)

MinAgri

Ministère de l’agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture - Madagascar)

MinSan

Ministère de la santé (Ministry of Health - Madagascar)

MIS

Management Information System (Bangladesh)

MNC

Municipal Nutrition Committee (Philippines)

MoA

Ministry of Agriculture

MoH

Ministry of Health

MOH-CW

Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (Zimbabwe)

MoHFW

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Bangladesh)

MOST

Micronutrient Operational Strategies and Technologies (USAID Micronutrient Programme)

MPIPA

Ministry of Plan Implementation and Parliamentary Affairs (Sri Lanka)

MPND

Ministry of Planning and National Development (Kenya)

MPSLSW

Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare (Zimbabwe)

MTPFNP

Medium Term Philippine Food and Nutrition Plan (Philippines)

MUAC

mid upper arm circumference

NAC

Projet de nutrition à assise communautaire (Community-based Nutrition Project - Madagascar)

NAP

Nutrition Action Programme (Philippines)

NDM

nutritionally depressed municipality (Philippines)

NFNTF

National Food and Nutrition Task Force (Zimbabwe)

NGO

non-governmental organization

NNC

National Nutrition Council (Philippines)

NNCC

National Nutrition Coordinating Committee (Sri Lanka)

NNP

National Nutrition Programme (Bangladesh)

NNPA

National Nutrition Plan of Action (Sri Lanka)

NNU

National Nutrition Unit (Zimbabwe)

NORAD

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

NOVIB

Netherlands Organization for International Development (Netherlands member of OXFAM International Cooperation)

NPAN

National Plan of Action for Nutrition

NTC

National Technical Coordinator (Coordinador Técnico Nacional - Honduras)

ODA

Overseas Development Administration (now DFID – United Kingdom)

PAA

Programme alimentaire d’appui (Food Security Support Programme -Madagascar)

PADR

Plan d’action pour le développement rural (Plan of Action for Rural Development - Madagascar)

PASS

Poverty Assessment Survey Study (Zimbabwe)

PC

Child Pastorate Programme (Pastoral da Criança - Brazil)

PICS

Programme on post cyclone and drought intervention (Madagascar)

PLANDERO

Rural Development Plan for the Western Region (Plan de Desarrollo Rural de la Región de Occidente - Honduras)

PNC

Projet communautaire de nutrition (Community Nutrition Project - Madagascar)

PNC

Provincial Nutrition Committee (Philippines)

PPA

purchasing power parity (paridad de poder adquisitivo - Honduras)

PPAN

Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition

PPRM

participatory poverty ranking method (Kenya)

PROLESUR

Rural Development Project for Southern Lempira (Honduras)

PRODERO

Rural Development Project for the Western Region (Proyecto de Desarrollo Rural de la Región Occidental - Honduras)

PROGRESA

Education, Health and Nutrition Programme (Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación - Mexico)

PROLESUR

Rural Development Project for Southern Lempira (also known as PLS - Honduras)

PRONADERS

National Programme for Sustainable Rural Development (Programa Nacional de Desarrollo Rural Sostenible - Honduras)

PROSHIKA

Centre for Human Development and Institute for Development Policy Analysis and Advocacy (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

PSSA

Programme spécial pour la sécurité alimentaire (Special Programme for Food Security - Madagascar)

RIMISP

International Network on Methodology of Farming Systems Research (Red Internacional de Metodología de Investigación de Sistemas de Producción - Honduras)

RNC

Regional Nutrition Committee (Philippines)

SAG

Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (Honduras)

SCO

Specialist in community organization (Madagascar)

SECALINE

Sécurité alimentaire et nutrition élargie (expanded food security and nutrition - Madagascar)

SEDESOL

Secretariat for Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social -Mexico)

SEECALINE

Surveillance et éducation des écoles et des communautés en matière d’alimentation et de nutrition élargie (expanded school and community food and nutrition surveillance and education - Madagascar)

SFPP

Supplementary Food Production Programme (Zimbabwe)

SIDA

Swedish International Development Agency

SIG

Système d’information géographique (Madagascar)

SMB

Secrétariat multi-bailleurs (Stakeholders’ Secretariat - Madagascar)

SN

Samurdhi niyamala (mobilizer - Sri Lanka)

SNSALIN

Stratégie national de sécurité alimentaire et de nutrition (National Food Security and Nutrition Strategy - Madagascar)

SRP

Stratégie pour la réduction de la pauvreté (Poverty Reduction Strategy - Madagascar)

TBA

traditional birth attendant (Kenya)

TCP

Technical Cooperation Programme (FAO)

TORTIBONOS

food stamp programme for tortillas (Conasupo 1985-1989 - Mexico)

UNDAF

United Nations Development Assistance Framework

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture

VCW

Village Community Worker (Zimbabwe)

VHW

Village Health Worker (Zimbabwe)

VHWP

Village Health Worker Programme (Zimbabwe)

WB

World Bank

WB-IDA

World Bank – International Development Assistance

WFS

World Food Summit (FAO, Rome, 1996)

WFP

World Food Programme

WMS

Welfare Monitoring Survey System (Kenya)



Terms, Weights, Measures


promotora

social development agent (Mexico)

barangay

smallest political subdivision in the Philippines

Sangguniang Bayan

Municipal Council (Philippines)

Sangguniang Panlalawigan

Provincial Council (Philippines)

 

1 quintal = 100 kg

1 manzana = 0.7 hectares (Honduras)



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