WHO’s Nutrition department is organised into three areas of work: Growth assessment and surveillance, Evidence and programme guidance, and Nutrition policy and scientific advice. Effective nutrition actions to improve health have been identified and WHO is working with Member States and partners to scale-up interventions, particularly for the most vulnerable, and starting from the earliest stages of development. Strategies include helping to develop sound food and nutrition policies in countries with the greatest burden of malnutrition; monitoring global trends in nutrition to inform decision-making; providing scientific advice for actions to intervene; and leading global collaboration to improve nutritional health.
The website provides access to WHO guidelines on nutrition, publications on nutrition, the WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA) (an online library of evidence-informed guidance for nutrition interventions), The Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA) (providing valuable information on the implementation of numerous nutrition policies and interventions), the Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS) (a web-based tool which provides nutrition and nutrition-related health and development data in the form of automated country profiles and user-defined downloadable data), The Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS), The Landscape Analysis of readiness to accelerate action in nutrition (a systematic approach to assessing where to invest and how to best invest to accelerate action in nutrition), and the WHO Child Growth Standards.