The Nutrition Advisory Service

The Nutrition Advisory Service (NAS) was established by EuropeAid in 2009 mainly to help EU Delegations and Directorates General (DGs) identify undernutrition-reduction programmes. This leaflet presents with five main arguments why the European Commission (CE), with its national and international partners, aims at improving people's nutritional status, what the NAS objectives are and how this Service works. It underlines that the NAS aims at establishing a common understanding and approach of nutrition issues. This can be done by helping EU Delegations working in countries where the nutrition situation is problematic and through actions in a few pilot countries so as to create a "reference document", which would give guidance to Delegations and DGs.

 European Commission, EuropeAid - 2009