PROFILES is a process for nutrition advocacy, developed by the Academy for Educational Development and now part of FHI 360, to quantify the consequences of malnutrition, demonstrate the huge economic and human benefits of nutrition improvement, and to display these results graphically.
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In countries where an application takes place, PROFILES:
- raises awareness about nutrition
- builds consensus
- provides a flexible communication tool
- builds capacity
- makes nutrition a priority
- promotes more comprehensive strategies
- leverages new resources
- better targets existing resources
- promotes coalitions in support of nutrition
- develops the leadership skills of nutrition advocates
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* NEW * PROFILES Model Updates:
- New mortality models based on the WHO growth standards
- A new stunting-productivity model with the latest coefficients from the scientific literature
- Value of actual breastmilk production as a percent of GDP
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