Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2015-03-31 12:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Mark Fryars (Vice-President, Programs and Technical Services, Micronutrient Initiative)",
        "fr": "M. Mark Fryars (vice-pr\u00e9sident, Programmes et services techniques, Initiative pour les micronutriments)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4053631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Laurie. It's a very pertinent question. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053632\" data-originallang=\"en\">The little bars you spoke about are these ready-to-use therapeutic food bars. They are very useful for severe acute-malnutrition treatment. They're actually very, very effective.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053633\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes, education is a key here. It was good to hear it mentioned earlier in answer to H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Laverdi\u00e8re's question. One of the problems we face is the recognition of nutrition as an issue. It's not only education; it's also awareness in the first instance that nutrition is crucially important for growth, for survival, for cognitive development, and for all these other very important life skills. Part of the educating of officials, which I think everybody in government will recognize, is that you need to move outside your box. You need to get across the divides. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053634\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tanzania has been relatively successful at the district government level. Some of the integration of services, which we would like to see more of\u2014we were talking about gender mainstreaming just now, and we would even talk about nutrition mainstreaming as well\u2014really needs to take place and become embedded. I can speak to you about a movement called Scaling Up Nutrition. This particular movement has brought to a lot of people's consciousness, as I think more than 60 countries have signed up now, the fact that they have to take action not just by giving out vitamin A supplements, which are perhaps a little more easy to see, but also within the education system, within local government decision-making processes, to look at the outcomes for nutrition as well as for gender and other issues. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053635\" data-originallang=\"en\">In terms of helping officials, I think it's educating them, yes, but it's also providing them with the tools for multi-sectoral planning, which is actually very, very crucial in this. The SUN movement, as we call the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, has invested in starting to build country capacity in this very area. If somebody takes a decision in the agriculture sector, we're hoping they will look at the effect it will have on the nutrition of the population they're serving. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053636\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I do agree with your point. I do agree that it's a very important piece, but I think it goes from awareness, through education, to also the tools for development. Perhaps Canada is well placed to provide technical assistance to good government, competent government, in that sense.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4053631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, Laurie. C'est une question tr\u00e8s pertinente.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053632\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les tablettes dont vous avez parl\u00e9 sont des barres alimentaires th\u00e9rapeutiques pr\u00eates \u00e0 consommer. Elles sont tr\u00e8s utiles pour traiter la malnutrition aigu\u00eb. Elles sont extr\u00eamement efficaces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053633\" data-originallang=\"en\">Oui, l'\u00e9ducation est la cl\u00e9. Je suis content qu'on en ait parl\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 la question d'H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Laverdi\u00e8re. Une de nos probl\u00e8mes, c'est la reconnaissance que la nutrition est un enjeu. Il n'y a pas que l'\u00e9ducation qui est en cause, il y a aussi la prise de conscience de l'importance cruciale de la nutrition pour la croissance, la survie, le d\u00e9veloppement des fonctions cognitives et tout ce qui est important pour vivre en sant\u00e9. Pour bien informer les autorit\u00e9s, et je crois que tous les intervenants gouvernementaux en sont bien conscients, il faut aller au-del\u00e0 de sa sph\u00e8re d'influence. Il faut franchir les foss\u00e9s qui nous s\u00e9parent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053634\" data-originallang=\"en\">La Tanzanie a connu un succ\u00e8s relatif \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle des gouvernements des districts. Il faut que les services soient v\u00e9ritablement int\u00e9gr\u00e9s. Nous venons tout juste de parler de l'int\u00e9gration de l'\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les sexes, et il faudrait aussi parler de l'int\u00e9gration de la nutrition. Je peux vous parler d'un mouvement qui s'appelle Renforcement de la nutrition. Ce mouvement a fait prendre conscience \u00e0 bien des gens \u2014 je crois que plus de 60 pays y participent \u2014 de l'importance d'agir non seulement en distribuant des suppl\u00e9ments de vitamine A, qui sont peut-\u00eatre plus faciles \u00e0 voir, mais aussi en amenant les syst\u00e8mes d'\u00e9ducation et les instances d\u00e9cisionnelles gouvernementales \u00e0 examiner les r\u00e9sultats des programmes de nutrition, d'\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les sexes et d'autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053635\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est d'aider les responsables, je crois qu'il faut les \u00e9duquer, oui, mais il faut aussi leur donner des outils de planification multisectorielle, ce qui est absolument essentiel. Le mouvement Renforcement de la nutrition a investi pour renforcer les capacit\u00e9s des pays \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Si les autorit\u00e9s d'un pays prennent une d\u00e9cision concernant leur secteur agricole, nous esp\u00e9rons qu'elles envisageront les effets de cette d\u00e9cision sur la nutrition de leur population.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4053636\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis d'accord avec vous. Je suis d'avis que c'est une pi\u00e8ce importante du casse-t\u00eate, mais je crois qu'il faut commencer par la sensibilisation, puis passer \u00e0 l'\u00e9ducation et donner les outils n\u00e9cessaires au d\u00e9veloppement. Le Canada est peut-\u00eatre bien plac\u00e9 pour fournir une aide technique aux gouvernements comp\u00e9tents.</p>"
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