The SMILING project: a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia

Jacques Berger; Gentiane Blanchard; Maiza Campos Ponce; Chhoun Chamnan; Mary Chea; Marjoleine Dijkhuizen; Coleen Doak; Esmee Doets; Umi Fahmida; Elaine Ferguson; Paul Hulshof; Yves Kameli; Kuong Khov; Kongsap Akkhavong; Kounavong Sengchanh; Bach Mai Le; Thi Lua Tran; Siti Muslimatun; Nanna Roos; Prak Sophonneary; Frank Wieringa; Emorn Wasantwisut; Pattanee Winichagoon; SMILING Consortium Group

The SMILING project: a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia

Jacques Berger, Gentiane Blanchard, Maiza Campos Ponce, Chhoun Chamnan, Mary Chea, Marjoleine Dijkhuizen, Coleen Doak, Esmee Doets, Umi Fahmida, Elaine Ferguson, Paul Hulshof, Yves Kameli, Kuong Khov, Kongsap Akkhavong, Kounavong Sengchanh, Bach Mai Le, Thi Lua Tran, Siti Muslimatun, Nanna Roos, Prak SophonnearyFrank Wieringa, Emorn Wasantwisut, Pattanee Winichagoon, SMILING Consortium Group

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The "Sustainable Micronutrient Interventions to Control Deficiencies and Improve Nutritional Status and General Health in Asia" project (SMILING), funded by the European Commission, is a transnational collaboration of research institutions and implementation agencies in five Southeast Asian countries--Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam--with European partners, to support the application of state-of-the art knowledge to alleviate micronutrient malnutrition in Southeast Asia. The major expected outcomes are to improve micronutrient status on a large scale, to identify priority interventions in each Southeast Asian country, and to develop a road map for decision makers and donors for inclusion of these priority interventions into the national policy. SMILING has been built around a strong project consortium that works on a constant and proactive exchange of data and analyses between partners and allows for the differences in contexts and development stages of the countries, as well as a strong North-South-South collaboration and colearning. The selection of Southeast Asian countries considered the range of social and economic development, the extent of micronutrient malnutrition, and capacity and past success in nutrition improvement efforts. SMILING is applying innovative tools that support nutrition policy-making and programming. The mathematical modeling technique combined with linear programming will provide insight into which food-based strategies have the potential to provide essential (micro) nutrients for women and young children. Multicriteria mapping will offer a flexible decision-aiding tool taking into account the variability and uncertainty of opinions from key stakeholders. The lessons learned throughout the project will be widely disseminated.

Original language	English
Journal	Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Volume	34
Issue number	Suppl. 1
Pages (from-to)	S133-S139
Number of pages	7
ISSN	0379-5721
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013

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Berger, J., Blanchard, G., Ponce, M. C., Chamnan, C., Chea, M., Dijkhuizen, M., Doak, C., Doets, E., Fahmida, U., Ferguson, E., Hulshof, P., Kameli, Y., Khov, K., Akkhavong, K., Sengchanh, K., Le, B. M., Tran, T. L., Muslimatun, S., Roos, N., ... SMILING Consortium Group (2013). The SMILING project: a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 34(Suppl. 1), S133-S139.

The SMILING project : a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia. / Berger, Jacques; Blanchard, Gentiane; Ponce, Maiza Campos et al.

In: Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. Suppl. 1, 06.2013, p. S133-S139.

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Berger, J, Blanchard, G, Ponce, MC, Chamnan, C, Chea, M, Dijkhuizen, M, Doak, C, Doets, E, Fahmida, U, Ferguson, E, Hulshof, P, Kameli, Y, Khov, K, Akkhavong, K, Sengchanh, K, Le, BM, Tran, TL, Muslimatun, S, Roos, N, Sophonneary, P, Wieringa, F, Wasantwisut, E, Winichagoon, P & SMILING Consortium Group 2013, 'The SMILING project: a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia', Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 34, no. Suppl. 1, pp. S133-S139.

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The SMILING project: a North-South-South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia

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