The objective of this paper is to share experience and provide updated information on Capacity Development in the Central and Eastern Europe/Balkan Countries (CEE/BC) region relevant to public health nutrition, particularly in creation of food composition databases (FCDBs), applying dietary intake assessment and monitoring tools, and harmonizing methodology for nutrition surveillance.
Although there have been some promising results in the field of diabetes and epigenetics, challenges related to study design, harmonized methodology of assessment, tissue heterogeneity, and others remain.
Scientists agree that there is a need for internationally and regionally harmonized methodologies and standards for assessing environmental impacts in different ecosystems (ICSU; FAO, 2004).
The variability of these parameters affects the manufacturing drastically and therefore standardized processes and harmonized methodologies need to be developed to characterize the technology for end use applications and enable the technology for manufacturing.
Future studies should address the development of harmonized methodologies by taking into account the complex interactions governing soil life.
Therefore, for valid inter-agency comparative analysis, it is important to not only harmonize methodologies, but also to standardize the usage of the budgeted (approved), the reimbursed (transferred to the implementing partner) or the actual (spent in the field) expenditure data, since only comparable data would allow for systematic, comparative analyses across funding entities.
Collaboration with partners UNICEF works closely with others, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme, to harmonize methodologies and indicators used in MICS.
To validate and harmonize the methodology, a general training workshop was held in Madrid Spainn), from 6th to 7th September 2011.
These workshops cover several objectives ranging from supporting further analysis of malaria data for improved programme monitoring and management and for policy formulation and harmonizing the methodologies used to derive estimates on access to water and sanitation to improving coverage estimates related to HIV and to child and maternal mortality.
