Community-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.

The
Emergency Nutrition Network's Supplement on Community Therapeutic Care (CTC)
Community
Therapeutic Care Inter-Agency Meeting, February 28-March 2, 2005
The
Emergency Nutrition Network's Report on the Proceedings of the October 2003 CTC
Workshop
Technical
Note No. 8, Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): A new approach to managing acute
malnutrition in emergencies and beyond
"Nutrition
and Millenium Development Goals," UN Standing Committee on Nutrition's 31st
Annual Meeting, March 2004
Community
Therapeutic Care PowerPoint presented by Dr. Steve Collins, Valid International