Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul

Programme Overview

Maternal and child undernutrition remains an urgent operational challenge for fragile health systems. This five-day course equips public health professionals with actionable tools to improve service access, clinical quality, and community-level nutritional care. Designed around global World Health Organization guidelines, the training addresses the operational complexities of running nutrition programmes within resource-constrained environments. Participants examine clinical pathways for screening acute malnutrition, administering therapeutic foods, managing preventative micronutrient supplementation, and integrating primary maternal healthcare with routine infant feeding counselling.

Delivered in Istanbul, the programme provides an intensive collaborative environment for public health managers, clinical coordinators, and implementing teams. The curriculum bridges high-level policy guidelines and frontline logistics, focusing on service continuity in rural and insecure areas. Delegates unpack evidence-based protocols for infant and young child feeding, outpatient therapeutic feeding programmes, and antenatal supplementation. Detailed modules address supply chain continuity for essential nutrition commodities, preventing pipeline ruptures, and supervising community health worker cadres in hard-to-reach districts.

Through applied case studies and technical problem-solving clinics, participants build robust monitoring mechanisms to track service coverage and vulnerable population reach. The training emphasises cross-sectoral coordination, linking clinical facility networks with mobile teams and community outreach networks. By standardising monitoring indicators, commodity accountability systems, and clinical triage procedures, participants gain the operational competence required to reduce preventable maternal and child mortality, strengthen health post reliability, and ensure rigorous adherence to international humanitarian and development standards.

Sustaining basic health and nutrition services is critical in fragile settings undergoing institutional transitions, such as Afghanistan. Frontline health programmes, including those working within the scope of the Sehatmandi framework and Health Emergency Response (HER) Additional Financing, require competent personnel capable of delivering lifesaving interventions amidst shifting operational realities. Strengthening technical capacities in malnutrition screening, therapeutic feeding, and local commodity tracking ensures uninterrupted primary healthcare for mothers and children, safeguarding essential service packages supported across international development and humanitarian funding streams.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Istanbul, Turkey, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Global standards and policy frameworks for maternal, neonatal, and child health
• Clinical guidelines for managing severe acute malnutrition and moderate wasting
• Infant and young child feeding in emergencies: core protocols and counselling models
• Antenatal and postnatal micronutrient supplementation delivery schedules
• Mapping clinical referral pathways between primary health posts and district hospitals
• Mid-upper arm circumference measurement standards and edema identification protocols
• Establishing community screening networks using community health worker networks
• Family MUAC initiatives: training caregivers for early malnutrition detection
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for public health programme managers overseeing child survival and maternal welfare initiatives, clinical managers running primary healthcare facilities and maternal wards, community health coordinators supervising lady health workers and community volunteers and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Public health programme managers overseeing child survival and maternal welfare initiatives
• Clinical managers running primary healthcare facilities and maternal wards
• Community health coordinators supervising lady health workers and community volunteers
• Nutrition officers implementing outpatient therapeutic and targeted supplementary feeding programmes
• Monitoring and evaluation specialists responsible for nutrition and health service indicators
• Health cluster coordinators and humanitarian project officers in crisis-affected areas
• Procurement and logistics officers managing essential nutrition supplies and therapeutic foods
• Provincial and district public health officers directing maternal and child health departments
• Technical advisors design maternal, newborn, and child health donor proposals
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training, participants will be able to:

• Apply international clinical guidelines for maternal, infant, and young child feeding interventions
• Establish standardized protocols for community-based screening of moderate and severe acute malnutrition
• Formulate operational plans for community health worker deployment and outreach in underserved areas
• Track essential nutrition supplies and therapeutic commodities to prevent clinical stock-outs
• Implement coverage monitoring methodologies to measure service uptake and identify delivery bottlenecks
• Integrate maternal micronutrient supplementation into routine antenatal and postnatal care pathways
• Design supervision and reporting workflows aligned with institutional donor accountability requirements
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training Methodology

The training methodology combines participatory technical presentations, scenario-based simulation exercises, and practical data analysis clinics. Participants review real-world programme documentation, assess sample supply pipeline disruptions, and practice case-management triage. Facilitated peer discussions enable professionals to share context-specific solutions for community mobilisation and remote supervisory control. Working in small groups, delegates utilise standardised operational matrices to develop practical delivery protocols directly translatable to their field programmes.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training, participants will be able to:

• Proficiency in setting up and managing outpatient therapeutic programme sites according to standard protocols
• Competence in conducting localized community nutrition screening and systematic referral procedures
• Enhanced ability to forecast, store, and account for essential nutrition and maternal medicines
• Application of standardized methodologies to evaluate community health outreach and geographical coverage
• Strengthened coordination protocols between facility-based staff, mobile outreach teams, and community cadres
• Improved reporting precision for institutional donors, cluster mechanisms, and public health ministries
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Istanbul, Turkey brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Turkey

Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Istanbul, Turkey by Risalat Consultants International

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Readiness Assessment
• Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Maternal and Child Nutrition Frameworks and Clinical Pathways), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Screening Mechanics and Community-Based Case Identification), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Outpatient Management and Therapeutic Service Delivery), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Supply Chain Integrity and Nutrition Commodity Management), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Day 5: Outreach Strategies, Coverage Monitoring, and Action Planning), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Maternal and Child Nutrition Service Delivery and Outreach in Istanbul programme take place?

It runs from 9 Aug 2027 to 13 Aug 2027, in Istanbul, Turkey. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for public health programme managers overseeing child survival and maternal welfare initiatives, clinical managers running primary healthcare facilities and maternal wards, community health coordinators supervising lady health workers and community volunteers, nutrition officers implementing outpatient therapeutic and targeted supplementary feeding programmes, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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