NutVal (version 4)
Donors: USAID/OFDA
Collaborators: UCL
ENN project lead: Marie McGrath
Timeframe: 2013-2014
Project summary
NutVal is a spreadsheet application for planning and monitoring the nutriton content of food assistance.
The ENN supported University College London (UCL) in the development of version 4 of this tool which was released in 2014. Features of version 4 include:
- New micronutrient requirements taken from FAO/WHO (2004), have replaced the WHO (2000) Safe Levels of Intake used in version 3.
- Nine additional nutrients have been included in the NutVal database for use in the analysis of nutrient adequacy.
- Age group categories have been revised to make them more comprehensive, user-friendly, and consistent with age groups that are used in programme design. Energy requirements for the new age categories have been calculated using values from FAO/WHO/UNU (2004).
- Additional food items that have been requested by users have been included.
- Data handling and the tracking database have been improved to allow the saving and recall of complete ration data.
- New graphs for comparing different rations have been added.
- On-line training presentations are being developed and will uploaded to nutval.net soon.
See NutVal for more information and to access the tool.
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Chloe Angood (). NutVal (version 4). www.ennonline.net/ourwork/capacitydevelopment/nutvalversion4
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