Course Introduction
The Nutrition Project Planning and Management Course provides a comprehensive framework for professionals responsible for identifying nutrition priorities, designing interventions, mobilizing resources, managing implementation, monitoring results, and evaluating nutrition projects. The course explores how evidence on malnutrition, dietary patterns, food insecurity, health outcomes, livelihoods, and social determinants can be transformed into practical projects that improve nutrition outcomes across vulnerable and diverse populations.
The programme covers the complete nutrition project lifecycle, from situation analysis and needs assessment through project design, feasibility analysis, budgeting, financing, implementation, procurement, stakeholder coordination, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and sustainability. Participants will examine practical approaches for maternal and child nutrition, adolescent nutrition, micronutrient interventions, community nutrition, food fortification, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, school feeding, social protection linkages, and emergency nutrition programming.
A major focus is placed on understanding the multiple and interconnected causes of malnutrition. Participants will explore how poverty, food insecurity, inadequate diets, disease, sanitation, healthcare access, gender inequality, social norms, climate shocks, market conditions, and household livelihoods influence nutrition outcomes. The course provides practical approaches for conducting nutrition assessments and designing integrated interventions that address both immediate nutrition needs and the underlying structural factors affecting nutritional wellbeing.
The course incorporates modern tools and technologies for nutrition project planning and delivery, including nutrition information systems, digital beneficiary management, mobile data collection, GIS, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, market monitoring platforms, and digital behaviour-change tools. Participants will explore how technology can strengthen targeting, early warning, supply planning, programme monitoring, dietary assessment, and decision-making while considering data quality, privacy, digital access, and responsible technology use.
Participants will also develop practical capabilities in nutrition programme financing, procurement, supply chain management, food and commodity management, stakeholder engagement, behaviour change, community participation, safeguarding, and risk management. Strong attention is given to results-based management, nutrition-sensitive programming, gender responsiveness, disability inclusion, accountability, and coordination across health, agriculture, education, social protection, food systems, and humanitarian sectors.
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to plan and manage effective, inclusive, evidence-based, and sustainable nutrition projects. They will be able to translate nutrition assessments into credible project strategies, develop budgets and implementation plans, coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders, manage operational risks, establish robust monitoring systems, use data for adaptive decision-making, and design scalable interventions that contribute to improved diets, reduced malnutrition, stronger resilience, and healthier communities.
Duration
5 days
Who Should Attend
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Nutrition project managers and programme officers responsible for planning and implementing nutrition interventions.
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Government officials working in nutrition, health, agriculture, food security, education, social protection, and community development programmes.
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Public health and nutrition specialists involved in maternal, infant, child, adolescent, and community nutrition initiatives.
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Representatives of donor agencies, development finance institutions, international organizations, and foundations supporting nutrition programmes.
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NGO and civil society professionals implementing nutrition, food security, livelihoods, health, and resilience projects.
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems professionals designing interventions to improve diets and household nutrition outcomes.
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Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning professionals responsible for measuring nutrition programme performance and impact.
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Health facility and community health professionals supporting nutrition screening, counselling, treatment, referral, and prevention programmes.
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Food security, livelihoods, social protection, and humanitarian professionals integrating nutrition objectives into broader development interventions.
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Programme finance, grants, procurement, supply chain, and contract management professionals working on nutrition projects.
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Behaviour change, health communication, social mobilization, and community engagement professionals working on nutrition interventions.
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Digital health and information systems professionals supporting nutrition data collection, targeting, monitoring, and programme management.
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Consultants and advisers supporting governments, NGOs, development partners, and private-sector organizations with nutrition project development.
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Professionals working on food fortification, school feeding, micronutrient programmes, food systems transformation, and nutrition-sensitive development.
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Researchers, policy advisers, academics, and practitioners seeking advanced skills in nutrition project planning, implementation, and management.
Course Objectives
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Develop the ability to assess malnutrition, dietary risks, food insecurity, nutrition vulnerabilities, and underlying determinants to establish evidence-based project priorities.
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Design comprehensive nutrition projects with clear objectives, target populations, intervention components, implementation strategies, measurable outcomes, and sustainability mechanisms.
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Apply structured project management methodologies to develop nutrition workplans, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, procurement requirements, partnerships, and implementation milestones.
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Strengthen capabilities in designing maternal, infant, child, adolescent, community, school, micronutrient, and emergency nutrition interventions.
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Integrate nutrition-sensitive approaches across agriculture, food systems, health, education, livelihoods, social protection, water and sanitation, and other development sectors.
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Apply financial management, resource mobilization, budgeting, procurement, commodity management, cost-effectiveness, and expenditure control principles to nutrition projects.
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Integrate gender equality, disability inclusion, safeguarding, community participation, behaviour change, cultural considerations, and social determinants into nutrition project design.
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Use digital technologies, GIS, nutrition information systems, mobile data collection, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and market data to strengthen programme planning.
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Establish robust monitoring, evaluation, learning, accountability, and impact measurement systems that demonstrate improvements in nutrition status, diets, service coverage, and programme performance.
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Develop risk management, resilience, sustainability, scaling, and adaptive management strategies that enable nutrition projects to respond effectively to food, climate, economic, health, and humanitarian shocks.
Comprehensive Course Outline
Module 1: Foundations of Nutrition Project Planning and Management
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Understanding nutrition project management principles, programme lifecycles, nutrition systems, and the relationship between nutrition interventions and broader development priorities.
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Examining different forms of malnutrition, dietary inadequacies, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity, and the double burden of malnutrition.
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Linking nutrition projects with national nutrition strategies, food systems policies, health priorities, Sustainable Development Goals, and global nutrition commitments.
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Exploring emerging nutrition challenges associated with climate change, food price volatility, urbanization, changing diets, conflict, displacement, and evolving food environments.
Module 2: Nutrition Situation Analysis and Needs Assessment
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Conducting nutrition assessments covering nutritional status, dietary diversity, food security, household livelihoods, health conditions, and access to essential services.
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Applying anthropometric assessments, dietary surveys, household data, health information, market analysis, community consultations, and vulnerability assessments to establish priorities.
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Identifying nutrition disparities based on age, gender, geography, socioeconomic status, disability, household composition, displacement, and other vulnerability factors.
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Translating assessment findings into project concepts, target populations, geographic priorities, intervention packages, delivery mechanisms, and implementation strategies.
Module 3: Nutrition Project Design and Theory of Change
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Developing nutrition project objectives, theories of change, logical frameworks, results chains, outputs, outcomes, assumptions, risks, and measurable indicators.
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Designing integrated nutrition interventions that combine prevention, treatment, counselling, supplementation, food access, behaviour change, and nutrition-sensitive approaches.
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Developing implementation plans covering activities, timelines, staffing, commodities, procurement, partnerships, community engagement, communication, and project governance.
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Integrating gender responsiveness, disability inclusion, safeguarding, cultural relevance, community participation, equity, and human rights into nutrition project design.
Module 4: Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition
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Designing interventions addressing maternal nutrition, antenatal nutrition support, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, child growth, micronutrient needs, and early childhood development.
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Developing adolescent nutrition initiatives addressing healthy diets, anaemia prevention, reproductive health linkages, school environments, and changing nutritional requirements.
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Strengthening community-based screening, nutrition counselling, referral, supplementation, growth monitoring, and management of acute and chronic nutrition problems.
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Integrating nutrition interventions with maternal and child health, immunization, social protection, education, water and sanitation, and community health systems.
Module 5: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, Food Systems and Social Protection
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Designing agriculture and food-system interventions that improve availability, affordability, accessibility, diversity, safety, and consumption of nutritious foods.
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Linking nutrition projects with livelihoods, smallholder agriculture, value chains, food markets, school feeding, local procurement, and income-generation opportunities.
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Integrating social protection mechanisms, cash transfers, food assistance, vouchers, and livelihood support with nutrition objectives for vulnerable households.
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Assessing food environments, market systems, climate risks, food price changes, consumer behaviour, and private-sector opportunities affecting nutrition outcomes.
Module 6: Nutrition Financing, Procurement and Supply Chain Management
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Developing nutrition project budgets covering personnel, commodities, supplements, food products, training, equipment, community outreach, monitoring, technology, and administration.
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Exploring government financing, donor grants, development finance, private-sector partnerships, philanthropic funding, and innovative financing mechanisms for nutrition programmes.
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Managing procurement, forecasting, warehousing, inventory, distribution, quality assurance, expiry management, and last-mile delivery of nutrition commodities.
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Applying financial controls, expenditure tracking, cost-effectiveness analysis, audit requirements, resource mobilization, and sustainability planning to nutrition projects.
Module 7: Behaviour Change, Communication and Community Engagement
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Designing evidence-based social and behaviour change interventions that address dietary practices, infant feeding, hygiene, food choices, health-seeking behaviour, and nutrition literacy.
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Developing community engagement strategies that strengthen participation, local ownership, trust, accountability, and culturally appropriate nutrition practices.
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Using behavioural science, formative research, social marketing, community dialogue, digital communication, and trusted local networks to influence nutrition behaviours.
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Establishing approaches for identifying misinformation, harmful practices, social barriers, gender norms, and communication challenges affecting nutrition programme uptake.
Module 8: Digital Nutrition, Data Systems and Emerging Technologies
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Exploring nutrition information systems, digital beneficiary platforms, mobile data collection, electronic registers, dashboards, and integrated programme management systems.
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Applying GIS, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, market intelligence, and early-warning technologies to identify nutrition risks and improve targeting.
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Strengthening data quality, interoperability, privacy, cybersecurity, responsible data governance, and ethical management of sensitive nutrition and household information.
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Examining emerging technologies for dietary assessment, remote nutrition counselling, digital behaviour change, supply-chain monitoring, and real-time programme performance management.
Module 9: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Nutrition Impact
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Developing monitoring frameworks and indicators covering nutrition status, dietary diversity, service coverage, beneficiary participation, commodity availability, behaviour change, and programme quality.
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Applying baseline and endline assessments, routine monitoring, nutrition surveys, anthropometric measurements, dietary assessments, process evaluations, and impact evaluations.
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Establishing data-quality assurance, beneficiary feedback, community accountability, supervision systems, performance dashboards, and learning mechanisms.
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Using evaluation findings, implementation evidence, cost-effectiveness analysis, and stakeholder feedback to improve nutrition interventions and inform future programming.
Module 10: Resilience, Sustainability, Risk Management and Scaling
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Identifying and managing nutrition programme risks related to food insecurity, climate shocks, conflict, disease outbreaks, economic instability, supply disruptions, and funding constraints.
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Integrating climate-smart nutrition, food-system resilience, disaster preparedness, anticipatory action, emergency nutrition, and shock-responsive programming into project strategies.
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Developing institutional strengthening, local ownership, financing, capacity development, policy integration, transition, and sustainability mechanisms for long-term nutrition improvements.
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Designing scaling and replication strategies using evidence, partnerships, digital tools, financing, policy engagement, community ownership, and cross-sectoral coordination.
Training Approach
This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.
Tailor-Made Course
This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808
Training Venue
The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.
Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant
Certification
Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.
Airport Pickup and Accommodation
Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808
Terms of Payment:
Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.
