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Overview of In-depth Vendor Assessment Tool. The in-depth vendor assessment tool is designed to assess. several food environment dimensions of a sub-sample of vendors/food outlets in markets and/or communities. The in-depth vendor assessment includes an observational checklist documenting the variety, labeling and sustainability properties of foods sold, how different food groups are stored, vendor hygiene and safety practices, as well as food and beverage promotion. This tool includes questions from Feed the Future’s EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (GAIN & USAID, 2023) vendor observations checklist, the Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH) (Chow et al., 2010), the World Food Programme’s Market Functionality Index (2020), and the Multi-Sectoral Food and Nutrition Security Cambodia (MUSEFO) study (GIZ, 2020). This tool provides detailed descriptions of the diversity of foods vendors are selling, the properties of those foods, vendor properties as well as food and beverage promotion.

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In-depth Vendor Assessment Tool

In-depth Vendor Instructions

In-depth Vendor Programming File

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