This guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for Maternal and Child Health/Child Survival (MCH/CS) and income related activities. The focus is on the collection and reporting of indicators to improve program management and document progress towards the achievement of results.

This step-by-step guide describes how to conduct rapid nutritional needs assessments and identify malnutrition in emergency situations

Chapter Two, Assessment and Diagnosis, and Appendix Four, Assessing Nutritional Status and Recovery, deal with assessing and measuring nutritional status in children.

Anthropometry indicators are a measure of the health and developmental status of children based on the child's age, sex, height and weight. ANTHRO software can be used by health professionals to compare the growth of individual children with the growth patterns of a large reference population of the same age and sex. ANTHRO is based on the 1978 NCHS/CDC/WHO growth reference. It requires the sex, height, weight, and age of children to calculate normalized anthropometric z-values, percentiles and percent-of-median. It can use dBase files for batch processing and has an anthropometric calculator.

This guide provides information on the Anthropometric Impact Indicators and the Annual Monitoring Indicators for Maternal and Child Health/Child Survival (MCH/CS) and income-related Title II activities, a subset of the P.L. 480 Title II Generic Performance Indicators for Development Activities. The impact indicators are: • decreased percent of stunted children (presented for ages 24-60 months and by gender), where stunting is defined as percent of children falling below -2 standard deviations for height-for-age; • decreased percent of underweight children (in specified age groupings such as 12-24 months 36-59 months and by gender) where underweight is defined as percent of children falling below -2 standard deviations for weight-for-age.

This newly revised guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for Maternal and Child Health/Child Survival (MCH/CS) and income related activities. The focus is on the collection and reporting of indicators to improve program management and document progress towards the achievement of results. Chapters are included on: Anthropometric evaluation and annual monitoring indicators Collecting anthropometric data through surveys Weighing and measuring equipment Taking measurements Comparisons of anthropometric data to reference standards Data analysis Annual monitoring indicators Section Title Pages Size Table of Contents and Section 1. Introduction Section 2. Anthropometric and Annual Monitoring Indicators Section 3. Collecting Anthropometric Data Through Surveys Section 4. Weighing and Measuring Equipment Section 5. Taking Measurements Section 6. Comparison of Anthropometric Data to Reference Standards Section 7. Data Analysis Section 8. Annual Monitoring Indicators Section 9. References and Appendices