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) |
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) |