Regional Centre for Community Nutrition

(TROPMED/ Indonesia)

 

The SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centre for Community Nutrition (RCCN) is a unit under the jurisdiction of the Indonesian Government's Ministry of National Education. It is hosted by the University of Indonesia (UI). RCCN has provided training, research, capacity building and information dissemination in nutrition since 1970. These activities have reached nutritionists, health professionals and personnel of other nutrition-related disciplines from Asia, Europe, and Africa.

 

Vision

To be a dynamic, self-reliant, strategic policy-driven and internationally recognized regional organization for strengthening regional understanding and cooperation in education, sciences and culture for a better quality of life.

 

Mission

To carry out teaching, research and consultancy services in community nutrition at an international level quality to contribute to its vision Objectives

 

Objectives

• To train professionals throughout the region in planning, executing and evaluating nutrition policies and intervention
• To promote research/investigation in nutritional problems and possible interventions directed towards the improvement of the nutritional situation at the district to the regional level
• To link and assist other nutritional training and research institutions within the region,
• To provide expertise for formulating recommendations concerning food and nutritional policies, and
• To stimulate and promote scientific cooperation within member countries and with other international institutions.