1. Scale-N
Scaling-Up Nutrition: Implementing Potentials of nutrition-sensitive and diversified agriculture
to increase food security
Kick-Off Meeting, Morogoro, TZ
19th-21st of January 2016

2. Agenda (1st day) Date Time Program Tuesday, 19th of January
Welcome (coordinators)
10:15-10:45
Introduction round of the Scale-N team
10:45-11:30
Introduction Scale-N (Conny)
11:30-12:00
Scientific Framework (Conny)
12:00-12:15
Group picture
12:15-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Discussion personnel (involved PhDs, Post-Docs, Seniors)
14:30-15:30
Introduction Case-study-Sites (Khamaldin)
15:30-16:30
Definition WP and Tasks I
16:30-17:00
Coffee break
17:00-18:00
Definition WP and Tasks II

3. Wednesday, 20th of January
Agenda (2nd day)
Date
Time
Program
Wednesday, 20th of January
:30
Timeframe deliverables
11:30-12:00
Annual reporting (dates, rules, responsibilities) (Conny)
12:00-12:45
Publication Plan Scale-N
12:45-13:15
Finances (Stefan)
13:15-14:15
Lunch
14:15-14:45
Introduction PhD concept (Michelle)
14:45-15:45
Introduction PhD concepts (SUA)
15:45-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-17:15
Planning documentation (pictures, documentaries, leaflets etc.)

4. Agenda (3rd day)

5. Scale-N is funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Call: Nutrition - Diversified Agriculture for a Balanced Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Budget: €
Postponed start:

6. Consortium Advisory Board:
Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives

7. Nutrition - Diversified Agriculture for a Balanced Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

8. MDGs

9. SDGs
Source:

10. Background: Food Security
Food and nutrition security  most pressing challenge in SSA
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (FAO 2003).
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11. Background: Food Security
Four Pillars
Food Security
Avail-abilty
Access
Utility
Stability
simultaneous

12. Target Region: Tanzania
Dodoma
Morogoro
Semi arid
Flat plains, small hills
sorghum, millet and an intensive livestock-integration
Semi-humid
Diverse: flat plains, highlands, dry alluvial valleys
Maize, sorghum, legumes, rice and horticulture

13. Target Region & Target Group
Represent Tanzanian agriculture  Up-scaling
Rural population
Both regions: 2 case study villages
~ 4,000 households

14. Main objective of Scale N:
Objectives
Main objective of Scale N:
Safeguard food and nutrition security for the local Tanzanian population by:
supporting sustainable and diversified agriculture
implementing of nutrition sensitive innovations focusing on knowledge transfer

15. Carousel of malnutrition Malnourished children
Target sub-groups
Women and children
Most vulnerable to food insecurity
Children
Women
38 % < 5 yrs: stunting
30 % < 5 yrs: vitamin A and/or iron deficiency
59 % anemic
37 %: vitamin A deficiency
30 %: iron deficiency
41 % anemic
Carousel of malnutrition
Malnourished women
URT 2011
URT 2011
Malnourished children
Biesalski 2013

16. Integrated Approach
Local stakeholders and residents are actively involved
Stakeholder involvement will be set up from the beginning as an integral part of most analytical steps
Use of existing local knowledge
Consortium
3 large German and African research institution
Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
Advisory Board: FAO

17. Sustainability on all levels
Sustain-abiltiy
Environment
Long-living project results
Sustainable use of natural resources
Environmental protection
Adaptation to ecological preconditions and climate change
Implementation of measures that exceed the project’s life time
Adaption to local preconditions
Project activities are locally embedded and integrative
Knowledge transfer
Potential
Up-Scaling
Beispiel Potential upscaling

18. Scientific Value
Involvement of three large German and African research institutions
scientific publications
German-Tanzanian R&D network
exchange program for young Tanzanian scientists
Master thesis
Namen von institutions

19. Scientific Framework Scale-N

20. Human Nutrition and Health Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Research Framework
Participatory Approach
Human Nutrition and Health
Nutritional Status Analysis
Nutrition Target Group
Cross-Sector Analysis
Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Natural Resources
Production
Processing
Markets
Consumption
Implementation and
Dissemination
Village implementation
Education and Empowerment
Policy Implementation

21. Workpackages WP 1: Stakeholder involvement, controlling and evaluation
WP 2: Human nutrition and health
WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
WP 4: Implementation and dissemination
WP 5: Scientific coordination and Management

22. WP 1: Stakeholder involvement, controlling and evaluation
Task 1.1.: Stakeholder involvement and engagement across planning and implementation scales (SUA, ZALF)
Objectives:
Mapping of key stakeholders
Sustain active involvement of key stakeholder groups

23. WP 1: Stakeholder involvement, controlling and evaluation
Task 1.2.: Iterative evaluation feedback as scientific and project advisory board services by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (ZALF, SUA, UHOH)
Objectives:
To optimize advisory services and guarantee information dissemination

24. WP 2: Human nutrition and health
Task 2.1.: Nutritional intake analysis: Baseline and endpoint analyses of intake quantities and quality (UHOH, SUA, ZALF)
Objectives:
Analysis of current nutrition situation and improvement after intervention

25. WP 2: Human nutrition and health
Task 2.2.: Nutritional status analysis of target groups (SUA, UHOH)
Objectives:
Assess nutritional status of target groups

26. WP 2: Human nutrition and health
Task 2.3.: Hygiene and access to local health care (SUA, UHOH; ZALF)
Objectives:
Cross-sector assessment of local health care and sanitation access

27. WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Task 3.1.: Natural resources: Inventory of soil fertility and water availability (SUA)
Objectives:
inventory of soils types and soil nutrients, water resources maps, crop diversity and agronomic practices
Identify existing match or mismatch between soil quality, crop diversity and agronomic practices
Identify, prioritize and test best-bet upgrading strategies

28. WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Task 3.2.: Production (SUA)
Objectives:
Inventory of agricultural production focusing on plant foods with high nutritional values
Inventory of small-scale livestock production
Identification of most promising nutrient-dense plant foods
Analysis of micro-nutrient levels of nutrient dense plant foods

29. WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Task 3.3.: Processing (SUA, UHOH)
Objectives:
Establish quantitative and qualitative losses of essential food components occurring from post-harvest processing, storage and food preparation
Disseminate the optimized best fit practices

30. WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Task 3.4.: Markets (SUA)
Objectives:
Inventory of nutrition-related market constraints and UPS through a participatory process
Evaluation of specificity and sensitivity of market and food value chain related agriculture development plans, programs and projects
Identify and prioritize nutrition sensitive UPS and test them through (PAR)
Conduct impact assessment of market-related nutrition outcomes as a result of testing

31. WP 3: Nutrition Value Chain Analysis
Task 3.5.: Consumption (SUA, UHOH)
Objectives:
Knowledge transfer to local population on possible intake modifications
Modification options of food intake patterns will be analysed and nutrient-dense foods will be introduced.

32. WP 4: Implementation and dissemination
Task 4.1.: Village implementation: Project components will be implemented at community level (SUA)
Objectives:
Establishment of communication and knowledge sharing plan to mobilize relevant stakeholders for putting project outputs into use

33. WP 4: Implementation and dissemination
Task 4.2.: Education and empowerment of women at community and regional level (SUA,UHOH, ZALF)
Objectives:
Communication and knowledge sharing plan
Training of nutrition facilitators

34. WP 4: Implementation and dissemination
Task 4.3.: Policy implementation of project outcomes (SUA, MFS, ZALF)
Objectives:
Engagement with national stakeholders which will include national, regional and district planners, decision makers and policy makers in key line-ministries

35. WP 4: Implementation and dissemination
Task 4.4.: Public relations [leaflets and press articles through known channels (e.g. DW TV, local, regional and national radio stations)] (SUA, ZALF)
Objectives:
Identification of an adopted communication and dissemination strategy for Scale-N products

36. WP 5: Scientific coordination and management
Task 5.1.: Building the consortium including quality management and scientific coordination (ZALF, SUA)
Objectives:
Establishment of a well-balanced R & D net
Definition and guidance of all scientific processes
Ensure an excellent scientific coordination
Establishment of an efficient financial, administrative and operational management system
Promotion and set-up of capacity building structures

37. Timeframe

38. Thank you!
Asante Sana!
Dankeschön!

39. Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Scale-N focusses on the improvement of the food situation of rural poors in Tanzania by nutrition-sensitive agricultures. Nutrition-sensitive activities within the value chain approach will be set up in all nutrition chain components such as:
Natural Resources and Production
Diversified production
Higher nutrition quality (nutrient-content of plant food)
Production of fruits and vegetables
Local varieties / African indigenous vegetables
Processing
Nutrition sensitive processing
Avoid post-harvest losses (quality and quantity)
Food Saftey
Markets
Assess purchasing activities of nutrient-dense foods
Available food baskets within seasons
Consumption
Nutrition education to enhance awareness of intake-patterns and household processing techniques
Change in dietary intake (higher quality, more diversified)

40. Definition
Nutrition sensitive agriculture or practice/activity is agriculture or any practice/activity that when done in food value chains it enhances nutritional and/or economic value that ultimately enables equitable access to adequate, safe and nutritious food for active and healthy human life throughout a year (stability).