The World Bank has not yet defined the main issues in management and capacity development in nutrition, nor has it developed methodologies for governments and project staff to identify and deal with these issues and systematically improve capacity. This issues paper is intended as a starting-point for developing the Bank's professional capacity in nutrition management and capacity development. It discusses a dozen sets of issues related to the design and implementation of community nutrition programs: community empowerment and decentralization
staffing and job design
supervision, training and referral
program monitoring and evaluation
sectoral capacity analysis and strategy development
building understanding, commitment and behavioral change
managing the nutrition sector
managing nutrition program support organizations
tools for institutional analysis and capacity development
building technical assistance capacity
improving donor cooperation
and improving coordination across sectors. As a follow-up, it suggests priorities for a work program in management and capacity development in nutrition, including: preparing case studies of successful nutrition programs
preparing best-practice nutrition projects with strong emphasis on capacity development
creating groups to focus on management and capacity development in key institutions dealing with nutrition
creating networks between nutrition institutions to share experience in this area.