Nutrition Surveys and Surveillance Activities in Russia and the Newly Independent States A Review of USAID-Sponsored Activities (1994) / Chapter Skim
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The committee's charge determined by USAID's Offices of Nutrition and of Democratic Initiatives and Health and Humanitarian Resources (DIHHR) was to review the findings of five nutrition surveys and related surveillance activities conducted in Russia and the Newly Independent States (NIS)
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Third, because of the sparse information available, a detailed assessment of the nutrition situation in the NIS and an in-depth review of individual programs and projects was not possible, particularly in light of the enormous geographic, ethnic, sociocultural, economic, and political diversity of the NIS and the difficulties in generalizing findings and recommendations for programmatic change. Fourth, most of the documents provided on the nutrition situation in Russia described the situation as of 1992; no data were available on which to base an assessment of the current situation.
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· Based on the available documentation, and taking into consideration the apparently high average Body Mass Index (BMI) of the adult population of the NIS prior to the recent social and economic changes, there appeared to be little evidence of energy deficiency or widespread malnutrition in Russia in 1992.
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· Anecdotal evidence suggested that consumption of alcohol in the Russian populations surveyed was rising, but the relevance of this finding to food security or nutritional status was not clear. Future analyses of the RLMS data may shed light on this situation.
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· At a minimum, specific qualitative measures should be elicited in advance of any survey and should ideally provide information on such items as recent changes in market food supply, usual sources of income and food and the population groups for whom access to these have changed, rising costs of competing necessities, the functionality of existing food and other safety nets, knowledge about how household food strategies might change under stress, and what kinds of interventions might be possible in a given population in a given region (which requires talking directly with the potential decision makers)
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The evidence presented to the committee was too out-dated to permit definitive conclusions regarding the current food supply and nutritional status of vulnerable groups or the causes of food-related problems (e.g., a market food shortage versus inadequate purchasing power)
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· The currently high level of interest of bilateral and multilateral agencies concerning the NIS means that there are opportunities for USAID to leverage its food and nutrition monitoring assistance and to increase communication about NIS problems with other organizations.
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