updated: 11 August, 2008
IFAD
Food security and nutrition
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Nepal - A child is being weighed and a mother is receiving medication for her child, at the child health centre in Nareswar. IFAD Photo by Anwar HossainThe document provides a series of tools and resource materials. Some are specific to nutrition assessments and others which may be useful in other types of surveys. The document is divided into two sections:

Practical Anthropometry 101 - Tools For Preparing a Survey

Practical Anthropometry 102 - Collecting Anthropometric Measures of Children