Uganda Nutrition Advocacy Package

FANTA-2, in partnership with WFP/Uganda and UGAN, developed a set of nutrition advocacy briefs that work to meet the need for harmonized messages to inform Ugandans that nutrition affects all sectors of society and is cross-cutting. The briefs have targeted advocacy messages using data from Uganda PROFILES spreadsheets. PROFILES is a process for nutrition policy analysis and advocacy that uses spreadsheet models to estimate the functional consequences of malnutrition in terms that policy makers understand and care about. In 2010, FANTA-2 worked with partners, including WFP/Uganda, to update the sections of Uganda PROFILES that illustrate the cost of malnutrition in Uganda in terms of productivity, morbidity, and mortality, among other development outcomes, using 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data.