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PROMOTING AND STRENGTHENING
EDIBLE OIL FORTIFICATION IN
RAJASTHAN, HARYANA AND PUNJAB
IIHMRJAIPUR
Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur
BACKGROUND
Malnutrition affects all countries and one in three people across the world. Nearly half of all
countries face multiple serious burdens of malnutrition such as poor child growth,
micronutrient deficiency, and adult overweight. It holds back human development and
economic growth. As a consequence, eliminating malnutrition is core to the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG 2) and particularly in high population countries such as India, the
poorest and most marginalized are worst affected. Micronutrient malnutrition is prevalent in all
age and socio- economic groups. According to round 4 of the National Family Health Survey
(NFHS-4) in India, about 38% and 36% respectively of children under age 5 years are stunted and
underweight, further 58% of preschool children, and 53% and 23% of women and men
respectively aged 15 to 49 years, suffer from anemia.
Micronutrient malnutrition is linked to poorer educational attainment, higher susceptibility to
disease, reduced work productivity, and a higher health care burden from preventable
nutrition- related ailments. The solutions to tackle micronutrient deficiencies are known, and
food fortification is a proven complementary strategy to reduce micronutrient deficiencies.
According to the Copenhagen Consensus (2012), food fortification programs are among the
best development investments, given their high return for a limited investment.
The Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur has successfully
implemented a food fortification project, titled Integrated Program Strategy in Rajasthan,
during 2011-15, with technical and financial support from GAIN. Since 2015, a team at IIHMR,
Jaipur is working as Technical Support Unit for Food Fortification to the State Government of
Rajasthan and Food Industries of the State.
Building on the legacy of this effort, IIHMR Jaipur has been identified by GAIN as an executive
agency to implement the project titled “Promoting and Strengthening Edible Oil Fortification in
Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab”.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• To assess the competency of oil millers and other oil channel partners to fortify and provide
fortified edible oils.
• To build technical capacity of stakeholders in the government and oil channel partners on oil
fortification.
• To advocate for fortification of edible oils with Vitamin A and D.
• To support the government and edible oil industry in creating awareness on Vitamin A and D
deficiencies and edible oil fortification.
• To provide technical support to the edible
oil industry for production of high quality
fortified edible oils, as per notified
standards.
• To provide support for the edible oil
fortification process and enhancing quality
assurance.
• To work closely with State Governments for
use of fortified edible oils in public safety net
programs such as the Public Distribution
System, Mid-Day Meal program and the
Integrated Child Development Services’
Supplementary Nutrition Program. �
TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT
The Technical Support Unit (TSU) has been set
up at IIHMR, Jaipur to provide technical
assistance to the State Governments of
Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, as well as
edible oil industry partners regarding the food
fortification. The TSU comprises of full-time
professionals with rich experience in project
management and public health nutrition with
strong networking with industry partners.
KEY ACTIVITIES
• Identification of partners and stakeholders
and assessing their production and
distribution capacity.
• Organize sensitization and advocacy
workshops for key stakeholders including
State Governments and industry partners.
• Identify training needs for oil channel
partners.
• D e s i g n a n d o rga n i ze t ra i n i n g a n d
orientation programs for key stakeholders.
• Provide technical support for quality
assurance and quality control.
• Engage in advocacy and promotional efforts
for food fortification.
Sensitization Cum Advocacy Workshop onEdible Oil Fortification in
Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh
Divisional Level Workshop cum ReorientationTrainings on Edible Oil Fortification in Rajasthan
Round Table on Scaling up Edible Oil Fortificationfor Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh
Experience sharing by the Oil Millers
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
GAIN: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) was launched at
the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.
GAIN is a global, Swiss-based foundation that mobilizes public-private
partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those
people most at risk of malnutrition. In India GAIN offers high quality know-how to make food
systems improve the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those
most vulnerable to malnutrition. GAIN aims to support and advise the Government of India,
state governments, businesses and development partners as they build and mobilize food and
nutrition plans to advance nutrition outcomes.
TATA TRUSTS: It is amongst India’s oldest, non-sectarian
philanthropic organizations. The Tata Trusts is a public charitable
trust having one of its primary objectives to impact the quality of life of the community in the
fields of healthcare, nutrition, education, livelihoods, Media & Arts among others for
betterment of society. In Nutrition, the Tata Trusts has adopted a multi sectoral approach to
address the issue of malnutrition effectively and at scale.
The India Nutrition Initiative (TINI), is a nutrition focussed initiative,
designate and implementing agency for the Tata Trusts. It has been
created with a panel of leading experts, in order to develop and
advocate an informed stand on policy relating to nutrition.
ABOUT IIHMR
The IIHMR, Jaipur is dedicated to improvement in standards of health
through better management of health care and related programs. It seeks
to accomplish this through management education, training, research,
consultation and institutional working in a national and global perspective.
IIHMR has been designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for District Health System based on
Primary Health Care. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has
identified IIHMR as an Institute of Excellence for training and capacity building. For more
information please visit our website www.iihmr.org.
CONTACT US
For any query and information, please contact us:
Project ManagerTechnical Support Unit for Food Fortification
Indian Institute of Health Management Research
1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport, Jaipur - 302029, India
+91-141-3924700 (ext 550) Fax: +91-141-392473
Email: [email protected]
IIHMRJAIPUR
TATA TRUSTS