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Discussion about entry: URDT Holistic Approach to Improved Nutrition in Uganda
This is discussion about URDT Holistic Approach to Improved Nutrition in Uganda.
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Community involvement is a key component in the success of many projects. Congratulations on your superb work in Uganda in empowering the community. You indicate that your project has been operating for more then 5 years, and you cite many successes of your program’s impact on nutrition. It would be nice to know which elements of your program drove your success.
I am not certain whether the foods your program promotes (African spinach, millet and pumpkin leaves) are part of the normal diet of the community you serve, or whether you are promoting the cultivation of these crops.
Once again I am impressed with your great work, and good luck.
This sounds like a really great initiative! Would you mind providing more information on how you address the issue of malabsorption, or how you are addressing the issue of income generation, specifically? We were hoping to hear more details about the different areas you’re working on and how they are related to nutrition. We look forward to your response, and please remember to filter your additional comments back into your entry form! Thanks!
- Naveen Shakir, Ashoka’s Changemakers
I have visited URDT and seen the impressive reach of their work many times over the last 12 years. Their holistic approach is broad and deep, and difficult to communicate in a few words. One important element of URDT's approach which you may not see from this submission is their education and empowerment of girls and women. They run a residential school for girls; and they are launching tertiary education for women -- to train them as rural transformation specialists. URDT's young women leaders are being enabled to educate, organize and advise rural people in the ongoing creative process of transformation from poverty to sufficiency and from disease and malnutrition to health. URDT aims to create a critical mass of women who understand the ins and outs of nutrition, health, income generation,and more. As we know, women are usually in charge of feeding and raising the family. Thus establishing educated women, both at the household level and as community leaders, is a key element in URDT's plan for sustainability of their work.
URDT's approach to human development has results to show for! This is another example. Congratulations for the job well done on creating consciousness and concrete results on issues of nutrition amongst members in the rural areas in Uganda. Thanks for emphasising in this project that food security is not only about the quantity but also the quality of food, including the its proper preparation at household level, its distribution amongst members in the household, as well as sustainable ways to producing food.
Over the years URDT has educated many change agents through its formal education programme (URDT Girls' School and Vocational Institute)and informal training (functional adult literacy classes, demonstration farm, community radio). They now act as rural transformation agents and raise consciousness at grassroots level on a wide range of issues that are key to development, including nutrition. The URDT rural transformation model deserves to be replicated. Please keep on going! Alida
I am impressed by how they are integrating multiple factors into an integrated approach. This is in sharp contrast to many programs that address a single aspect of the problem, but do not address the various factors that will ultimately determine the success of the effort. Bravo.
The integrated approach to development explained in this entry makes enormous sense. That, combined with the fact that the work is anchored in participatory action research, and demonstrates real impact, makes this a terrific effort.
These winning strategies should be deployed more broadly and, happily, this web-site is one way to do that.
My feeling is that the amount of concern that has been put on bu UN about the issue in Uganda is not sufficient. More Aids have to be given to improve their lifestyles. accelerated language learning