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CVG Centre for Nutritional Assessment

Advancing Nutrition Intelligence, Strengthening Health Systems, Transforming Lives

The CVG Centre for Nutritional Assessment is a national hub dedicated to improving the quality of nutrition and dietary assessment, strengthening evidence-based decision-making, and advancing child health and wellbeing in Cameroon. Created in partnership with the International Collaboration on Nutrition in Relation to Cancer (ICONIC) and the University of Southampton (UK), the Centre is one of only five established across Africa. The Centre directly supports Community Vision Group’s long-term mission of building healthier, educated, and food-secure communities. It also complements CVG’s flagship initiative, the Nourish2Flourish School Feeding Program, by generating reliable data to improve school meal planning, child health monitoring, and program expansion.

Our Purpose

Our Centre exists to:

Improve the quality of nutritional and dietary assessments:

We promote standardized, high-quality methods for screening, evaluating, and reporting nutritional status across schools, communities, and health facilities.

Strengthen the evidence behind nutrition program:

Our research and data systems help shape effective interventions in health, education, agriculture, and social development.

CVG team members participate in Nutritional Assessment training in Ghana

Support Nourish2Flourish program:

We generate the nutrition intelligence needed to design nutritious school meals, monitor children’s wellbeing, and enhance program impact.

Promote diabetes & NCD awareness:

With rising rates of nutrition-related diseases, the Centre integrates diabetes education, prevention, screening, and dietary counselling into its work with communities and health workers.

What We Do

Nutrition Screening & Assessment

  • National surveys and facility-level audits
  • Anthropometry, growth monitoring, and micronutrient assessment
  • Dietary intake surveys and school feeding assessments
  • Identification of systemic, operational, and cultural barriers to proper nutrition
CVG Centre Director - Nutritional Assessment during the QAFANA workshop in Ghana
CVG Centre Director - Nutritional Assessment during the QAFANA workshop in Ghana
CVG Staff members engage with Prof Steve Wootton in Ghana for the QAFANA Training
CVG Staff members engage with Prof Steve Wootton in Ghana for the QAFANA Training

Quality Assurance Framework

We are developing Cameroon’s first Quality Assurance Framework for Nutritional Status Assessment, ensuring standard procedures, validated tools and reliable, comparable nationwide data

Capacity Building

The Centre will build and strengthen capacity in the following areas:

  • Nutritional assessment methods
  • Dietary data collection
  • Food and nutrition counselling
  • Diabetes and NCD dietary management
  • Nutritional Epidemiology
Fonfuka Council oversees the Construction of two classroom block at GS Mulung
Fonfuka Council oversees the Construction of two classroom block at GS Mulung
CVG Centre for Nutritional Assessment
CVG plays host to one of the five Centres for Nutritional Assessment in Africa, established by ICONIC

Research & Innovation

Our research explores:

  • Dietary practices
  • Nutrition transitions
  • Micronutrient deficiencies
  • Childhood obesity & diabetes risk
  • Food systems and food environments
  • Effectiveness of school feeding programs

We work closely with universities, ministries, and global partners to translate findings into policy and action.

Community Engagement & Awareness

We lead community-focused initiatives on healthy diets and nutrition education as well as diabetes and NCD prevention.

Infomation Technology is central to our Community Transformation agenda
Infomation Technology is central to our Community Transformation agenda