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Child Nutrition Project
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| Training components ranging from village level volunteer training to graduate training are included in this project. Training components which occurs as part of the community interventions are: 1) Paravets (assistant veterinarians) in each country with courses ranging from one week in Ethiopia to two weeks in Kenya. Village women are to be selected by the community for this training. 2) Extension worker training: The training and retraining of agricultural and health extension workers and school teachers is being held jointly and will be supplemented by short courses as needed, particularly in nutrition. 3) Nutrition education assistants: 6 to 10 women, selected by and from the animal credit groups, are being trained in community nutrition by project nutritionists. 4) Graduate training: During years 5 and 6, two Ethiopian graduate students will be funded to obtain Master’s degrees in the Applied Nutrition Program in University of Nairobi, or Master’s or doctoral training at UCLA, UC Davis, or at Pennsylvania State University. The Master’s candidates may remain for doctoral studies, funding permitting. The training needs identified thus far are in Public Health/Community Nutrition and Child Development. |
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Degree |
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Discipline |
Nationality |
Training Institution |
Est. Date of Completion |
% CRSP Support |
Constance Gewa, Msc*
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Ph.D.
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F |
Nutrition
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Kenyan
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TBA
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2004 |
TBA |
Monika Grillenberger, Msc*
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Ph.D.
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F |
Nutrition
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German
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Wageningen University
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2003 |
10% |
Jonathan Siekmann,MS
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Ph.D.
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M |
Nutritional Science
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American
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UC Davis
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2001 |
10% |
Edith Mukudi, Ph.D.
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Postdoc
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F |
Education
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Kenyan
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UCLA
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2000 |
100% |
Shannon Whaley, Ph.D.
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Postdoc
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F |
Psychology
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American
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UCLA
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2000 |
20% |
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| * Hopefully some training can start late in 2000 pending acceptance into universities and pending funding level. Two staff, Minnie Kamore and Rosemary Ngaruro, would be able to start graduate programs in 2001 pending funding. |
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| Non-Degree |
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Non-degree training and refresher training is constantly taking place and field staff quality control and ongoing training of field staff will continue in the coming year in the full range of measures being used.
The data entry team are constantly having their skills upgraded by George Rabar, the data manager and programmer who works with them, and by Monika Grillenberger. The research staff, working with the University of California staff, through continuous interaction with the investigators is learning about hands-on research and plans for analyses.
The Training component is underfunded as the allotted funds must be used to complete the data collection and carry out preliminary data and analyses. Hopefully, funding can be obtained in 2001 and we will need to look for other sources. As listed above, two Kenyan staff hope to obtain doctorates, one a masters degree, and one non-Kenyan employed full time in Embu hopes to obtain a doctorate with project funding. This shortfall of training support would be a major disappointment to all.
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