Safe Food Connexions works with international food and health organisations on food safety education and nutrition programs. We encourage a research and evidence-based approach to this work, community capacity building, partnership development and sustainable action.           

         Services  

• Technical support and advice on food safety education, public awareness campaigns and strategic communications
• Scoping studies and guidance on project design, implementation and evaluation 
• Conducting training of trainer (TOT) workshops and seminars
• Guidance on development of training materials and resource packages
• Drafting technical reports

          
         Recently completed projects

Frances Warnock undertook two major projects working for the World Health Organisation (WHO) during 2006-07 on food safety education and capacity building in the South East Asian countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam.                                      

  Vegetable market, Hanoi 

She worked as a mentor and advisor to staff of the Ministries of Health in Cambodia and Lao PDR over a 15 month period to plan, implement and evaluate projects aimed at improving rural household food safety practices. The community-based intervention studies involved training of village health volunteers in Cambodia, and Lao Women's Union representatives, to observe rural household food safety practices, identifying high risk food handling practices/behaviours, and developing targeted food safety messages and information materials for community education.  

A success story. The projects in both Cambodia and Lao PDR were successful in highlighting major food safety and hygiene problems in rural village households, raising community awareness about the importance of safe food handling practices and improving household food safety behaviours. A key outcome of  this work was development of a model process for expanding food safety education in rural communities of Cambodia and Lao PDR.                                                                                                                                                               Preparing riverweed, Vang Vieng, Laos