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All resources on nutrition and development including materials on childhood nutrition; agriculture; and financing nutrition.
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Multi-country analysis of the effects of diarrhoea on childhood stunting
Document Library
June 3, 2015

Diarrhoea is an important cause of death and illness among chil- dren in developing countries; however, it remains controversial as to whether diarrhoea leads to stunting. We conducted a pooled analysis of nine studies that collected daily diarrhoea morbidity and longitudinal anthropometry to determine the effects of the long- itudinal history of diarrhoea prior to… Read more

Children, diarrhea
School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India
Document Library
June 3, 2015

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores of primary school students, and investigates whether the program… Read more

Early Childhood Development, inclusive education
Improving Child Nutrition? The Integrated Child Development Services in India
Document Library
June 3, 2015

Levels of child malnutrition in India have fallen only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and considerable expenditure on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To begin to unravel this puzzle, this article assesses the programme’s placement and its outcomes, using… Read more

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Nutrition Scorecard Launch: Driving Accountability and Future Commitments
Blog
April 23, 2015

ACTION global health advocacy partnership have launched their Nutrition Donor Scorecards, an accountability tool for tracking donor’s Nutrition for Growth Commitments. Until recently nutrition has been relegated to the sidelines of development planning only taking center stage at times of acute humanitarian crises. Yet with undernutrition behind 45% of all preventable child deaths worldwide this… Read more

Accountability, Donors, Nutrition
Health
Nutrition
Health and nutrition drivers in urban areas
Helpdesk Report
April 15, 2015

On average, urban health levels are better than those in rural areas. However, averages can be misleading: once the data are disaggregated, it is clear that the urban poor face health risks often as high as and sometimes worse than those of rural residents, despite the proximity of modern health services (UNFPA, 2012). This report… Read more

Health, Nutrition, urban poor, Urbanisation
Nutrition
What are the barriers to attendance to the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) and how can these be reduced?
Assignment
March 17, 2015

Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) was launched in Nigeria in 2009 as a bi-annual campaign-style programme designed to deliver key child and maternal health interventions and to revitalise health care systems. Support to strengthen this programme, in the five northern Nigerian States of Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe, is being provided by… Read more

Nutrition
Report on phase 1 of the spatial mapping of nutrition programming project
Assignment
February 25, 2015

This report provides output for Phase 1 of DFID’s spatial mapping of nutrition programming project. The overall project comprises two discrete phases and aims to better understand if and how spatial analysis can help to coordinate and co-locate nutrition relevant programmes. The rationale for the project is based on the recognition that cross-sector actions are essential… Read more

Nutrition
Sindh Province Report: Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan
Assignment
February 16, 2015

In the Sindh Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty per cent of children are underweight and 73% of children and 62% of pregnant women are anaemic. In this report a nutrition governance framework was applied… Read more

Pakistan, Political Economy, undernutrition
Nutrition
Punjab Province Report: Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan
Assignment
February 16, 2015

In the Punjab Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Although Punjab as a whole has marginally less under-nutrition than other provinces, there are large disparities within the province. In this report a nutrition governance framework was… Read more

Pakistan, Political Economy, undernutrition
Nutrition
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Report: Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan
Assignment
February 16, 2015

In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty-eight per cent of children have stunted growth 68.5% of children and 76.2% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency. In this report a nutrition… Read more

Pakistan, Political Economy, undernutrition
Nutrition
Baluchistan Province Report: Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan
Assignment
February 16, 2015

In the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Fifty-two per cent of children have stunted growth, 73.5% of children and 60.7% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency. In this report a nutrition governance framework… Read more

Pakistan, Political Economy, undernutrition
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