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FAO. 2004. Improving Nutrition Programmes: an Assessment Tool for Action. Users’ Training Manual. FAO, Rome.
Rifkin, S.B. and Pridmore, P. 2001. Partners in Planning. Macmillan, London.
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Some useful information:
If you need help, or there is a section of the methodology that you do not understand, please contact:
Dr Guy Nantel
Food and
Nutrition Division (from January 2006: Nutrition and Consumer
Protection Division)
Food and Agriculture Organization
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome
Italy
Email: guy.nantel@fao.org
If you would like to send comments on your experience of using this Assessment Tool, please send them to the above address.
The companion volume to this Assessment Tool, “Community-based Food and Nutrition Programmes: what Makes Them Successful. A Review and Analysis of Experience” (FAO, 2003) can also be obtained from the above address.
The recommended text for the participatory methodology is:
Partners in Planning by S. Rifkin and P. Pridmore. ISBN 0-333-79266-1
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