Since the Education and Population, Nutrition and Health Departments at the World Bank recently combined forces to become the Human Development Department (HDD) they have produced 4 issues of HDDFLASH. The July Issue containts two interesting items which I am posting to CHLICK4HP as two seperate postings. Here is the first. ----------- HDDFLASH ISSUE no. 4, July 1, 1996 -------------------------- Electronic newsletter and archiving service on human development issues World Bank Human Development Department (HDD) e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.worldbank.org/html/hcovp/hdd/contents.html ========================================================================== In this clip ... * Capacity, Capital and Calories: 9th Annual Martin Forman Memorial Lecture * What's New in the HDDFLASH Archive? =========================================================================== Due to the overwhelming response, we are including an abstract of the Ninth Annual Martin Forman Lecture. Abstract of "Capacity, Capital and Calories," the Ninth Annual Martin J. Forman Lecture, delivered by Beryl Levinger, Ph.D., on June 10, 1996 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the National Council for International Health This lecture offers a conceptual model for human capacity development and then explores the role of nutrition within that framework. The concept of "participation opportunity" is essential to the model and is defined as "any productive interaction that enables individuals to contribute to the development of their nations, communities, and families." Participation opportunities span the course of a person's life cycle and include the chance to go to school, secure gainful employment, influence civic affairs, raise a healthy family and protect the environment. Human capacity development occurs when available participation opportunities are accessed. The process of accessing existing participation opportunities creates a mutually reinforcing cycle wherein new participation opportunities are created for oneself and others. This model of human capacity development is concerned with activities that transcend what has been the traditional focus of human capital or human resource development: the individual as labor force participant. In contrast, human capacity development is concerned with a broader range of roles and behaviors. In particular, it is rooted in the very qualities that make homo sapiens human: creativity, love, learning, and social interaction. This is reflected in the model's emphasis on flexibility, collaborativeness, adaptability, and problem-solving skills in the context of four core domains: family living, livelihood, civil society and environment. Individuals are, thus, valued in terms of the many roles they play over the course of their lives: comunity member, learner, earner, consumer, parent,partner, environmental steward and citizen. The underlying assumption of the model is that in each of these roles, individuals make choices that have a direct and profound bearing on the quality of life that they, their families, and their fellow citizens will enjoy. In the context of such a model with its emphasis on participation and the factors that predispose individuals to participate, the importance of nutrition as a development discipline grows significantly. There is a persuasive body of evidence, summarized in the lecture, to suggest that, throughout the lifespan, an individual's participation behaviors are profoundly influenced by current and prior nutritional status. Adaptations to malnutrition generally involve an increase in resting and inactivity. Such a response is both an individual and societal problem since those who fail to avail themselves of existing participation opportunities also fail to create new ones for others. The lecture concludes with a series of recommendations addressed to the international development community in general and the international nutrition community more particularly. Included among these are the following: 1) the need to move beyond nutritional status changes and also consider behavioral outcomes associated with nutrition interventions; 2) the need to link demand for participation opportunities to nutritional status in project planning, implementation and evaluation; and, 3) the need to rethink institutional capacity development in accordance with the paradigm presented. 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