Year of publication 2014

These guidelines for agreeing on causes of malnutrition for joint action are designed to assist professionals involved in development, emergency, and resilience building programmes who seek to promote integrated planning across sectors for sustainable improvements in nutrition. The guidelines present a workshop methodology that uses a Problem and/or Solution Tree approach for: - sensitization and training on nutrition, food security and livelihoods;  strategic planning for integrated nutrition programmes; - designing information and surveillance systems for nutrition and food security; - developing partnerships for improving nutrition, food security and livelihoods. The methodology provides a powerful way to strengthen participants’ motivation to engage in joint action for nutrition. The exercise helps to “demystify” nutrition as participants realize that the work they do already contributes to improving nutrition and that the impact of their work can be increased through appropriate linkages and by filling identified gaps.