Safe Food Connexions is working with international food and health organisations to plan, implement and monitor a range of food safety education and public health initiatives targeting consumers, food industry, farmers and health workers. Our focus is on prevention: Using a research and evidence-based approach to practice; working in partnerships; capacity building and sustainable action.            

         Services  

• Technical guidance and advice to design effective food safety awareness campaigns, including behaviour change communications
• Project management: Scoping studies, concept design, planning, implementation and evaluation 
• Developing and conducting training programs, workshops and training of trainer (TOT) courses
• Development of training materials and resource packages
• Writing 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