Deadline: 21 March 2017
The Wageningen UR Center for Development Innovation (CDI) is currently accepting applications for its short term course on “HIV and Food and Nutrition Security”. The course duration is from 25 Sept-13 Oct 2017 in the Netherlands.
This course focuses on the interrelationship between food, nutrition security and HIV using a Human Rights-Based Approach. It discusses the actions that can be taken to provide nutrition security to people living with HIV, their families and communities.
Highly skilled experts will facilitate the course to provide you with the knowledge and skills to design and strengthen the implementation of programs to mitigate the negative effects of HIV on livelihoods.
In addition, the course is highly interactive, building on the participant’s own experiences and cases.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course you will:
- have insight into the medical aspects of HIV, AIDS and their relation to nutritional status;
- undertand the interrelation between food and nutrition security and HIV;
- have strengthened your competence to design a programme to address the negative impacts of HIV on food and nutrition security, using a Human rights-based approach;
- Have clear ideas on how to lobby /advocate to integrate HIV in policies and programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should have a BSc or equivalent in the field of food and nutrition, home economics, agriculture, medicine or a related field, and have at least three years of professional experience in governmental or local non-governmental organisation related to the field of the course.
- Proficiency in English is required.
How to Apply
Applications can be accessed online through the website. Applicants must first have to create an account on the website and register themselves for the course.
For more information, please visit HIV and Food and Nutrition Security.