1. Organization of nutritional care |
1.1 Agendas for intensification of nutritional attention to child malnutrition (ANDI). |
1.2 Brazilian National Supplementation Program for Vitamin A. |
1.3 Brazilian National Supplementation Program of Iron (PNSF). |
1.4 Strategy to Strengthen Infant Feeding with Micronutrient Powder (NutriSUS). |
1.5 Epidemiological surveillance, assistance and nutritional care of thiamine deficiency cases. |
1.6 Prevention and control of overweight and obesity. |
1.7 Attention to people with special food needs. |
1.8 Growing Healthy Program (from 2017). |
2. Promoting proper and healthy eating |
2.1 encouragement of breastfeeding and healthy complementary feeding - Breastfeed and Nurture Strategy. |
2.2 Publication of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population (2014). |
2.3 Manual of Dietary Planning in the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS). |
2.4 Promoting healthy school cafeterias. |
2.5 Campaigns to promote proper and healthy eating. |
2.6 Brazilian regional foods. |
2.7 Healthy weight. |
2.8 Working group for the elaboration of the reference framework for food and nutrition education for public policies (2012). |
2.9. Food Guide for Children Under Two Years (2019). |
3. Food and nutrition surveillance |
3.1 Strengthening the food and nutrition surveillance in health services. |
3.2 Financing of anthropometric equipment. |
3.3 Population surveys. |
3.4 Food and nutrition surveillance-related studies and research. |
3.5 Monitoring of food and nutrition indicators. |
4. Management of food and nutrition actions |
4.1 Planning and monitoring (in addition to the planning and budget management of the specific programs managed, General-Coordination of Food and Nutrition (CGAN) participated in the planning of the food and nutrition goals in the Multiannual Plan (PPA), the Brazilian National Health Plan (PNS), the Annual Health Programming (PAS), the Brazilian National Food and Nutritional Security Plan (PLANSAN) and the Brazilian National Plan of Agroecology and Organic Production (Planapo), among others). |
4.2 Financing - it is worth highlighting the program for financing of food and nutrition actions, instituted in 2006, which transfers resources to states, the Federal District and large municipalities in order to support the structuring of food and nutrition actions within the SUS. |
4.3 Support to states and municipalities - the CGAN carried out, throughout the period, technical and financial support to the 26 states, the Federal District and all Brazilian municipalities aimed at the implementation of PNAN actions and programs. |
4.4 Intrasectorial Articulation - participation of the CGAN different programs involving food and nutrition developed in other parts of the health care sector, such as the Secretariat of Healthcare (primary care, Health Program at the School, and Child Health Program, medium, and high complexity), the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Department of Science, Technology and Strategic Inputs, Department of Strategic and Participatory Management, the Special Secretariat for the Health of the Indigenous Population, the Brazilian National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance (ANVISA). |
4.5 Intrasectorial articulation - participation in the CGAN in the coordination of the actions and programs of food and nutrition developed for other sectors, such as the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development (Brazil Without Poverty Plan, Action Loving Brazil, and the Brazilian Family Income Program); Interministerial Chamber for Food and Nutrition Security (CAISAN), the Food Acquisition Program (PAA), the Brazilian Ministry of Education, the National Program for Food in Schools, the Ministry of Employment and Labour (Workers’ Food Program), the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazilian Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the General Secretariat and the Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic. |
4.6 International relationship and cooperation (Decade for Action by the United Nations for Nutrition; Network of Action for Food Guides in the Americas; Network of Action and Strategies to Reduce Salt Intake for the Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Americas; Network of Action for Healthy Food Environments in the Americas; Intergovernmental Committee for Food and Nutritional Security in the Mercosur; Technical Cooperation Brazil-Canada in food and nutrition, diabetes, mental health, and the health of indigenous people; Technical Cooperation Brazil-Mexico to agendas relating to the prevention and control of obesity; Technical Cooperation Brazil-Mozambique to strengthen the Governance of Food and Nutritional Security, and others). |
5. Participation and social control |
5.1 Brazilian National Health Council (CNS). |
5.2 Brazilian National Council for Food and Nutrition Security. |
5.3 Brazilian National Human Rights Council of the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic. |
6. Workforce qualification |
6.1 Food and Nutrition Network of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (RedeNutri). |
6.2 Lato sensu postgraduate courses for human resources training to support the implementation of PNAN programs and actions in states and municipalities. |
6.3 Development of technical material to support the qualification of processes and practices in the health care network. |
6.4 CGAN as a training field - among other actions, partnerships with several educational institutions stand out, contributing to the training of health professionals at the undergraduate level, through the offer of compulsory and elective internships; and in postgraduate courses, through the offer of elective internships or immersion of multiprofessional residences in health and stricto sensu courses. |
7. Food Control and Regulation |
7.1 Universal food fortification policies. |
7.2 Food regulatory agenda. |
7.3 Reformulation of processed foods to reduce sodium, fat and sugar content. |
7.4 Regulation of food advertising. |
8. Research, innovation and knowledge in food and nutrition |
8.1 Conducting research, producing knowledge and developing technical materials. |
8.2 Support for holding events in the field of food, nutrition and health. |
8.3 Publication of the research priorities agenda for the management of the PNAN, in partnership with the technical nutrition Group of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO), the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) and other institutions (2017). |
8.4. Research notices for priority studies in the field of food and nutrition - partnerships between CNPq, Brazilian Ministry of Health/CGAN. |
9. Cooperation and coordination for food and nutrition security |
9.1 Actions aimed at the articulation between SUS and the Food and Nutritional Security System (SISAN), from the articulation of food and nutrition care in the Health Care Network (RAS) to the other food and nutritional security actions in the territories, with a view to confronting food and nutritional insecurity and health problems, from the perspective of their social determinants. |