The project aims to promote iodised salt and increase its consumption to combat Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) and other associated diseases

Brief description of activities:

• Promotion of iodised salt through the greater Municipality of Phnom Penh and all its markets;
• Marketing strategy; development of questionnaires and conduction of a survey on nutrition habits (more than 45,000 respondents);
• Door-to-door education in all streets and districts of Phnom Penh as well as all markets located in Phnom Penh and its outskirts areas;
• Distribution of iodised salt samples and testing of salt at homes and in the markets with salt retailers (control activity);
• Organisation of a three-day concert at Wat Phnom for the promotion of iodised salt during the Water Festival.