Regional Workshops to Operationalize the 2023 WHO Guidelines
Workshop
Regional Workshops to Operationalize the 2023 WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutrition Oedema in Infants and Children Under 5 Years of Age.
West and Central Africa Regional Workshop: In February 2024, a regional workshop, hosted by UNICEF and WHO, was held in Douala, Cameroon with the objective of familiarizing participants with the key recommendations, principles and evidence underlying the new WHO Guideline. The workshop also aimed to discuss adaptation strategies for implementing the new Guideline within national contexts and to discuss how the Guideline can be applied in emergencies, such as humanitarian crises or natural disasters.
The workshop targeted 12 countries in the region and was attended by more than 90 participants, composed of representatives from the Ministry of Health, WHO, WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR, FAO and NGO nutrition cluster coordinators. Key next steps at the national level will focus on developing a roadmap for national protocol update and establishing a national committee/working group for national-level stakeholders to support the development of the revised national protocols. View PDF.
Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Workshop: An in-person workshop took place in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2023. The workshop was organized jointly by WHO in collaboration with UNICEF and other GAP partners, WFP and UNHCR. The purpose of the workshop was to allow participants to deep dive into the updated WHO Guideline to understand what the changes will mean for wasting programming at country level.
Twelve countries were represented in the workshop, which was attended by over 100 participants, including Government/Ministry of Health counterparts from participating countries, UNICEF, WHO, WFP and UNHCR, regional and country office teams and nutrition. A key outcome of the workshop was that participating countries presented one short-term (within 6 months) and one long-term (6 months to 1 year) priority action to complete the revision and dissemination of the national guidelines. View PDF.
