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Link bulletWhat is CTC?

Link bulletENN Supplement, Community Therapeutic Care (CTC)

Link bulletValid International

Link bulletConcern Worldwide

Link bulletDevelopment Cooperation Ireland

Link bulletEmergency Nutrition Network

Link bulletCommunity Therapeutic Care (CTC) Workshop in Dublin, October 2003

CTC Manual 2006Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual

Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in children in emergencies and beyond. Conceived by Valid International and implemented along with Concern Worldwide, CTC provides rapid and effective assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities and focuses on outreach and community mobilization to promote participation and behavioral change for long-term solutions to food insecurity and threats to public health. CTC aims to treat the majority of the severely malnourished at home with specifically designed Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) such as the peanut-based Plumpy'nut® from Nutriset in France.

Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual provides program managers, practitioners, and technical specialists addressing severe acute malnutrition with the essential design, implementation and evaluation protocols for implementing the CTC approach. As the CTC model is evolving, this first edition does not provide a step-by-step workbook for implementers, but rather offers a solid foundation to build CTC programs at local and national levels. The manual is a product of a collaboration between Valid International, Concern Worldwide, USAID’s FANTA Project, and Development Cooperation Ireland. Support for FANTA for the development of CTC and the production of the manual came from the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

To complement the release of the CTC Field Manual, a set of CTC training modules aimed at implementation of the CTC method for the management of acute malnutrition are in development. These training materials will be important to ensure that future implementers are proficient in the CTC method for managing acute malnutrition, and will be released after materials testing is complete.

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Section ContentsPagesSize
Cover, Table of Contents and Prefacei - xivpdf icon88 kb
Chapter 1. Introduction and Chapter 2. The CTC Model1-22pdf icon221 kb
Chapter 3. CTC - In Context and Chapter 4. Planning and Design23-42pdf icon126 kb
Chapter 5. Community Mobilisation and Chapter 6. Supplementary Feeding Programme43-70pdf icon150 kb
Chapter 7. Outpatient Therapeutic Programme and Chapter 8. Stabilisation Care71-98pdf icon147 kb
Chapter 9. Monitoring and Chapter 10. Evaluation99-130pdf icon152 kb
Chapter 11. Local Production of RUTF and Chapter 12. Future Developments131-138pdf icon74 kb
Annexes 1 through 8139-160pdf icon159 kb
Annexes 9 through 17161-176pdf icon211 kb
Annexes 18 through 26177-195pdf icon140kb
Annexes 27 through 36196-221pdf icon396 kb
Index, References, Bibliography, Backcover222-232pdf icon186 kb

Link bulletThe Emergency Nutrition Network's Supplement on Community Therapeutic Care (CTC)

Link bulletCommunity Therapeutic Care Inter-Agency Meeting, February 28-March 2, 2005

Link bulletThe Emergency Nutrition Network's Report on the Proceedings of the October 2003 CTC Workshop

Link bulletTechnical Note No. 8, Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): A new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond

Link bullet"Nutrition and Millenium Development Goals," UN Standing Committee on Nutrition's 31st Annual Meeting, March 2004

Link bulletCommunity Therapeutic Care PowerPoint presented by Dr. Steve Collins, Valid International