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Home Background Food Fortification in Asia Improving Health & Building Economies: An Investor’s Primer Capacity Building Workshops Inception Meeting: Regional Initiative to Eliminate Micronutrient Malnutrition through Public-Private Partnership Regional Workshop on Flour and Cooking Oil Fortification Regional Workshop on Regulation, Quality Assurance, Surveillance, and Trade of Fortified Food Products The Regional Workshop on Optimizing Child Growth and Development through Improving Complementary Feeding Country Investment Plans Partners & Participants

Capacity Building Workshops

In a series of four workshops, participants developed consensus statements that encouraged the building of regional institutional capacity in food-quality assurance, nutrition monitoring, communications, and advocacy.

These workshops promoted sharing of information and best practices, cultivated skills in investment planning, and identified shared resource needs and strategic opportunities. The process allowed for a regional perspective on problems that are sometimes perceived by individual countries to be unique to them. Understanding these crosscutting issues enabled the Country Teams to share experiences and discuss the possibility of regional efforts to overcome barriers to success.

The capacity building process emphasized four key elements:

• national ownership
• collaboration among the public, private, and civic sectors
• realistic and concrete implementation orientation
• regional capacity building and decision making, so that common opportunities and challenges could be addressed with regional solutions

Read the Overview of Capacity Building Workshops: Building Capacity, Consensus, and Collaboration [PDF]