Nutrition

This document is a guideline about the nutrition approaches to be followed in Fish for Livelihoods project. Development and printing of communication materials on nutrition and WASH based on the Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Health Actions messages; includes the importance on consumption of micronutrients rich small fish (SIS), farming SIS, etc.

This document captures the information on basic nutrition available to consume fish, vegetables, and other nutritious food. It demonstrates that how less intake of nutrition leads to the malnutrition. Furthermore, the importnance of WASH, hygiene, and hand washing practice was discussed in the document.

This document provides a common understanding among stakeholders (staff from implementing partners, WorldFish staff, donors, communities) on the approaches undertaken throughout the project. These approaches are based on experience from other WorldFish projects, both in Myanmar and in neighboring countries. This document serves only as a guide, so feedback and recommendations from stakeholders are welcome.

This poster highlights the benefits of eating Small Indigineous Fish (SIS), how to harvest it, and the benefits of growing them with other fish species. The benefits of the partial harvesting that they don't need to spend access money rather they get extra income. It gives information about the vitamins, protein, calcium, and other minerals they can gain from the SIS consumption.

This poster gives information about the SIS species widely available for consumption. Eating SIS as a whole brings numerous benefits and has a great nutritious value. The SIS could be consumed with soup, add with vegetables, and may be eaten with rice. The SIS may look small but it has plenty of benefits.

The recepie cards gives information about the ingridients needed to prepare pumpkin fish balls. How to take care of SIS, should be used in whole with other ingridients. It gives infomration about the consumption of these balls for children age (6 months to 23 months) and for adults as well.

This poster gives information about the SIS species widely available for consumption. Eating SIS as a whole brings numerous benefits and has a great nutritious value. The SIS could be consumed with soup, add with vegetables, and may be eaten with rice. The SIS may look small but it has plenty of benefits.