Any strategy to advance salt iodization must be rooted in the twin understandings that salt is produced by private salt producers and that a broad community including public health and education agencies and organizations, economic interest groups, community service organizations, etc. are affected and can be mobilized to establish sustainable programs to combat IDD. There is no other way.
ICCIDD favors national coalitions of all such stakeholders as an public education and political action strategy. At the very outset, a broad stakeholder group should be formed to guide an assessment of iodine nutrition status, the salt marketplace and resources required.
See: Chapter from Towards The Global Elimination of Brain Damage Due to Iodine Deficiency
The Network for the Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency maintains a good list to help identify potential partners.
