Marion Roche

Designing Co-packaging for Zinc & Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) to Influence Caregiver and Provider Behaviours for Treating Childhood Diarrhea in Guatemala

Marion Roche, Rosario Garcia, Ali MacLean & Noel Solomons · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: The Guatemalan Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance has scaled-up co-adjunctive zinc as a national policy, yet utilization of this newly-available life-saving commodity remains a concern.  The purpose of this study was to design effective co-packaging for z...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20947

Nepal's National Scale-up of The Iron Intensification Program Improved Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Coverage in Pregnancy and Showed Potential for Reducing Anemia

Marion Roche, Roman Pabayo, Macha Raja Maharjan, Deepika Chaudhery & Lynnette Neufeld · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: A national scale-up of an integrated facility and community-based delivery of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements in Nepal spanned almost ten years through the Iron Intensification Program (IIP), over which time national coverage of IFA in pregnant women increased f...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20951

Tools for Strengthening Implementation of Large-scale Nutrition Programs: An Evaluation of the Program Assessment Guide (PAG)

Geoff Marks, Jo Durham, David Pelletier, Suzanne Gervais & Marion Roche · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: The Program Assessment Guide (PAG) is a 44 page 9 module workshop facilitation guide developed as "a tool to strengthen the design and implementation of large-scale nutrition programs."  It has been used to guide workshops for this purpose in Kyrgyzstan, Bolivia, Tanz...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21073